| 100% | DITKA | 5 | N.F.L. Coach of the Year in 1985 and 1988 |
| 53% | MORA | 4 | Jim ___, onetime N.F.L. Coach of the Year |
| 52% | HUBIE | 5 | Brown who was NBA Coach of the Year in 1978 and 2004 |
| 50% | LEBEAU | 6 | Coach Dick in the N.F.L. Hall of Fame |
| 48% | DUSTYBAKER | 10 | N.L. Manager of the Year, 1993, 1997 and 2000 |
| 48% | SABO | 4 | 1988 N.L. Rookie of the Year Chris |
| 44% | ADELE | 5 | She won Album of the Year honors in 2012 and 2017 |
| 44% | SABO | 4 | Chris ___, 1988 N.L. Rookie of the Year |
| 44% | PIRIE | 5 | Gordon —, BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1955; 1967 and 1968 British Orienteering Championships winner |
| 43% | ADAMS | 5 | ___ Award (N.H.L.'s Coach of the Year trophy) |
| 43% | ADELE | 5 | Billboard's Artist of the Year in 2012 and 2016 |
| 43% | BRIANSIPE | 9 | 1980 N.F.L. Player of the Year |
| 43% | ESIASON | 7 | 1995 N.F.L. Man of the Year |
| 42% | HARDER | 6 | Pernille ___, UEFA Women's Player of the Year Award winner in 2018 and 2020 |
| 41% | JJWATT | 6 | N.F.L. star who was a Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year in 2017 |
| 41% | MEL | 3 | Blount in the N.F.L. Hall of Fame |
| 41% | BLUEMONDAY | 10 | Most depressing date of the year, first declared in 2005 and contrived by many pseudo-scientific formulas |
| 41% | JJWATT | 6 | Three-time N.F.L. Defensive Player of the Year (2012, 2014 and 2015) |
| 41% | CMA | 3 | Org. that awarded Taylor Swift "Entertainer of the Year" in 2009 and 2011 |
| 41% | STRANGE | 7 | Curtis —, US golfer; winner of the US Open Championship in 1988 and 1989 |
| 41% | LUKEWALTON | 10 | Head coach of the L.A. Lakers since 2016 and coach of 41-Across since 2018 (2 wds.) |
| 41% | RILEY | 5 | Three-time N.B.A. Coach of the Year |
| 41% | PATRILEY | 8 | Three-time N.B.A. Coach of the Year |
| 41% | SAPP | 4 | 1999 N.F.L. Defensive Player of the Year |
| 41% | NAMATH | 6 | 1974 N.F.L. Comeback Player of the Year |
| 40% | HER | 3 | Singer nominated for Album of the Year Grammys in 2019 and 2020 (and whose name spells a pronoun) |
| 40% | LYNNE | 5 | Author of the novels The Indian in the Cupboard and The L-Shaped Room |
| 40% | TONYBENNETT | 11 | 2018 AP Coach of the Year who shares his name with the singer of "I Left My Heart in San Francisco": 2 wds. |
| 40% | TARAVANDERVEER | 14 | Stanford University women's basketball coach who was named Naismith Coach of the Year in 1990, 2011, and 2021 (2 wds.) |
| 40% | DIDNT | 5 | "___ We Almost Have It All," number-one hit by Whitney Houston that received a Grammy nomination for Song of the Year in 1988 |