| 100% | LONGBOAT | 8 | Tom ___, Native American long-distance runner who won the Boston marathon in 1907 |
| 62% | DESIREELINDEN | 13 | American long-distance runner who won the women's foot race at the 2018 Boston Marathon: 2 wds. |
| 43% | GWENJORGENSEN | 13 | American distance runner and two-time ITU World Champion who was the first to win a triathlon gold for USA in the Olympics: 2 wds. |
| 42% | KARA | 4 | ___ Goucher, long-distance runner who podiumed at the Boston and New York City marathons |
| 41% | YUKIKAWAUCHI | 12 | Japanese marathon runner who won the men's foot race at the 2018 Boston Marathon: 2 wds. |
| 40% | UTA | 3 | ___ Pippig (first woman to officially win the Boston Marathon in three consecutive years) |
| 38% | JORDANSPIETH | 12 | American golfer who won the 2017 Open Championship and was runner-up to 49-Across in the 2021 Open Championship (2 wds.) |
| 38% | UTA | 3 | ___ Pippig, first woman to win the Boston Marathon three times in a row |
| 38% | MATTHEW | 7 | ___ Centrowitz Jr., American runner who won the gold medal in 1500 meters run at the 2016 Olympics |
| 37% | TINO | 4 | Former Yankee Martinez who won the Home Run Derby in 1997 |
| 36% | LENO | 4 | Jay who won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2014 |
| 36% | BENOIT | 6 | Runner Joan ___ Samuelson, who won gold in the first women’s Olympic marathon, in 1984 |
| 36% | LENO | 4 | Jay ___, TV host who won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2014 |
| 35% | WEISKOPF | 8 | Tom —, golfer who won The Open Championship in 1973 |
| 35% | LORNEMICHAELS | 13 | "SNL" producer who won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2004: 2 wds. |
| 35% | ENO | 3 | Native American people in N. Carolina who amalgamated with the Catawbas in approx. 1715 |
| 35% | PEARLSBUCK | 10 | American writer who won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature (3 wds.) |
| 35% | LOUISEGLUCK | 11 | American poet who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature (2 wds.) |
| 35% | LOUISEGLUCK | 11 | American writer who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature (2 wds.) |
| 34% | IRAHAYES | 8 | Native American who was one of the six flag-raisers on Iwo Jima in WWII |
| 34% | TOMKITE | 7 | American golfer who won the men's 35-Across in 1992 (2 wds.) |
| 34% | MILER | 5 | One who's in it for the long run |
| 34% | MARATHONER | 10 | Person who's in it for the long run? |
| 34% | IGGYAZALEA | 10 | "Fancy" rapper who won the American Music Award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist in 2014: 2 wds. |
| 34% | SOFIAKENIN | 10 | American tennis player who won the Australian Open in 2020: 2 wds. |
| 33% | WILLFERRELL | 11 | "Elf" actor and "Saturday Night Live" star who won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2011: 2 wds. |
| 33% | COVER | 5 | Franklin ___, actor who played Tom Willis in the '70s sitcom "The Jeffersons" which is one of the longest-running sitcoms |
| 33% | JEFF | 4 | ___ Henderson, American track and field athlete who won the gold medal in long jump at the 2016 Olympics |
| 33% | TOMWATSON | 9 | American golfer who won The Open Championship in 1975, 1977, 1980, 1982, and 1983 (2 wds.) |
| 33% | JOSEFNEWGARDEN | 14 | American auto racer who won the Indianapolis 500 in 2023 and 2024 (2 wds.) |