| 100% | WOODS | 5 | Sports Illustrated's first two-time Sportsman of the Year, 1996 and 2000 |
| 53% | ALI | 3 | Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year in 1974 (10 years after he first became world champion) |
| 51% | SOSA | 4 | One of Sports Illustrated's two Sportsmen of the Year in 1998 |
| 50% | ORR | 3 | First hockey player to win Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year |
| 49% | ORR | 3 | Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year in 1970 |
| 48% | ALI | 3 | Sports Illustrated's 1974 Sportsman of the Year |
| 48% | DREWBREES | 9 | Sports Illustrated's 2010 Sportsman of the Year |
| 48% | ORR | 3 | Sports Illustrated's 1970 Sportsman of the Year |
| 44% | OREL | 4 | Hershiser who was Sports Illustrated's 1988 Sportsman of the Year |
| 43% | DREWBREES | 9 | Quarterback who was Sports Illustrated's 2010 Sportsman of the Year: 2 wds. |
| 42% | ALI | 3 | Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Century |
| 42% | SOSA | 4 | Sports Illustrated 1998 co-Sportsman of the Year |
| 41% | SOSA | 4 | Sports Illustrated's 1998 co-Sportsman of the Year |
| 41% | RETTON | 6 | Sports Illustrated's 1984 Sportswoman of the Year |
| 41% | NIXON | 5 | Two-time Time Man of the Year (and a hint to 17-, 27-, 41- and 54-Across) |
| 40% | SERENA | 6 | Sports Illustrated's 2015 Sportsperson of the Year, to fans |
| 40% | BONO | 4 | First Time Person of the Year musician |
| 39% | OBAMA | 5 | Time's Person of the Year for 2008 and 2012 |
| 39% | DENG | 4 | Time's Man of the Year for 1978 and 1985 |
| 39% | DUSTYBAKER | 10 | N.L. Manager of the Year, 1993, 1997 and 2000 |
| 39% | ALI | 3 | Boxer who was Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Century |
| 38% | ALI | 3 | Boxer named Sportsman of the Century by Sports Illustrated in 1999 |
| 38% | BOBSLEIGH | 9 | Winter Olympic sport in which teams of two race on narrow iced tracks and was first played in the 1870s |
| 38% | RAPINOE | 7 | Megan who was Sports Illustrated's 2019 Sportsperson of the Year |
| 37% | LINCOLN | 7 | Abraham ___, 16th President of the U.S.A. and the first to sport a beard in office |
| 37% | ALI | 3 | Boxer Muhammad named Sportsman of the Century for the 1900s by Sports Illustrated |
| 37% | FRANKDEFORD | 11 | Former Sports Illustrated writer who was Sportswriter of the Year six times (2 wds.) |
| 36% | SANDRABULLOCK | 13 | Actress who was EW's only two-time Entertainer of the Year, in 2009 and 2013: 2 wds. |
| 36% | LEWIS | 5 | Sports Illustrated's "Olympian of the Century" |
| 36% | SASHA | 5 | ___ Banks, American professional wrestler who was named Wrestler of the Year by Sports Illustrated in 2020 |