English Channel
Completion of the swim between England and France, non-wetsuit and not listing multiple times or different directions. 1st swims are listed plus those which broke a speed record for a specified swim. The codes help understand directions: “crossing" means either direction; E>F means England to France; records also look at 2-4 way segments and “overall” means the fastest of all men and women (women did hold overall speed records) - see xls
Antonio Abertondo: 1st 2 way (overall)
Abdellatief Abou Heif: Record E>F (overall)
Nick Adams
Jacques Amyot
Greta Andersen: Record crossing (woman), Record E>F (woman)
Antonio Argüelles Díaz-González
Paul Asmuth: Record crossing (man)
Ersin Aydin
David Barra
Cameron Bellamy
Tina Bischoff: Record crossing (overall)
Tom Blower: Record E>F (overall)
Dr. Julie Bradshaw, MBE
Tamara Bruce
Tom Burgess
Karen Burton
Alfredo Camarero
Florence Chadwick: 1st (woman) – E>F, Record crossing (woman),Record E>F (woman) twice
Kimberley Chambers
David Stevens Clark
Anne Cleveland
Marcia Cleveland
Robert Cossette
Dr. James “Doc” Counsilman
Baron Abílio Couto: Record E>F (overall)
Lynne Cox: Record crossing (woman) twice
Julian Critchlow
Brojen Das: Record F>E (overall)
Penny Lee Dean: Record crossing (overall)
Ned Denison
Edith van Dijk
Lyndon Dunsbee: Record crossing (man)
Gertrude Ederle: 1st woman, 1st (woman) – F>E, Record crossing (overall)
Nasser Elshazly: Record crossing (overall)
Jon Erikson: 1st 3 way (overall), Record crossing (man), Record 2 way (overall), Record 2 way (man)
Ted Erikson: Record 2 way (overall)
Commander Gerald Forsberg, OBE, Master Mariner, FNI, Royal Navy (Retired): Record E>F (overall)
Elizabeth Fry
Pat Gallant-Charette
Rosemary George
Mercedes Gleitze
Elaine Gray: Record crossing (woman)
Christopher Green
Trent Grimsey: Record crossing (overall)
Ashby “Bud” Harper
Ishak Helmy
Tom Hetzel, PhD
Colin Hill
Yvetta Hlaváčová Record crossing (woman)
Chad Hundeby: Record crossing (overall)
Carole Hunt
Sarah Hunt
Helge Jensen: Record crossing (overall)
Zhang Jian
Peter Jurzynski
Ted Keenan
Dr. Vicki Keith, CM
John Kinsella
Yuri Kudinov
Irene van der Laan: Record 2 way (overall)
Annemie Landmeters
Stéphane Lecat
Sunny Lowry, MBE
Dr. Marcy MacDonald, DPM
Michelle Macy
Alawi Mohammed Makki Al-Ibrahim
Attila Mányoki
Susie Maroney, OAM: Record 2 way (woman)
Daniel Eulogio Carpio “Carpayo” Massioti
Chloë McCardel
Linda McGill, MBE Record crossing (woman)
Sally Anne Minty-Gravett, MBE
Dr. Osama Ahmed Momtaz: Record 2 way (man)
Jaimie Monahan
Rohan Dattatrey More
David Morgan
Kevin Murphy
Forrest Nelson
Marc Newman: see note 1 below
Cynthia Nicholas, CM: 1st 2 way (woman), Record F>E (woman), Record 2 way (overall) three times
Anna-Carin Nordin
Gustavo Oriozabala
Penny Palfrey
David Parcells
Tom Park
Baptista Pereira
James Pittar
Claudio Plit
Lewis Pugh, OIG: see note 2 below
Michael P. Read, MBE
Stephen Redmond
Hassan Abdel Rehim: Record crossing (overall)
Des Renford, MBE
Julie Ridge
Veljko Rogošić
Philip Rush Record crossing (man), Record F>E (overall), Record 2 way (overall) twice, Record 3 way (overall)
Jan van Scheijndel
Mihir Sen
Mervyn Sharp
Taranath Narayan Shenoy
Carol Sing
Joe Smith
Igor de Souza
Tomi Stefanovski
Dr. Chris Stockdale, MBE
Petar Stoychev: Record crossing (overall)
Alison Streeter, MBE: 1st 3 way (woman), Record F>E (woman), Record 2 way F>E>F (woman)
Martin Strel
Henry Sullivan
Stella Taylor
Shelley Taylor-Smith
Bert Thomas
Sarah Thomas: 1st 4 way (overall)
Enrico Tiraboschi: 1st F>E (man), Record crossing (overall)
Nora Toledano Cadena
Montserrat Tresserras
Norman Trusty
Hugh Tucker
Jacques Tuset
Ernst Vierkoetter: Record crossing (overall)
Christof Wandratsch Record crossing (man)
Barry Watson: Record crossing (overall)
Captain Matthew Webb: 1st (overall) – E>F
Monique Wildschut
Herman Willemse
John York
Bridget Young
David Yudovin
Major Jason Zirganos
note 1: one of his crossings started from Dungeness
note 2: He also swam the length of the English Channel (530km over 49 days)
The list above agrees with the public list available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x8fqi1gvjXQ40puKd3c3iniekVnQnHQS/view