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| 1951 |
| | | US boxer Sugar Ray Robinson beats Jake Lamotta to take the middleweight title (for the first of five times) | |
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| 1951 |
| | | Argentinian driver Juan Manuel Fangio wins the first of five Grand Prix world championship titles | |
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| 1952 |
| | | US boxer Rocky Marciano becomes world heavyweight champion, defeating 'Jersey Joe' Walcott | |
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| 1953 |
| | | US golfer Ben Hogan wins the US Open, the US Masters and the British Open in a single year | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Baseball star Joe Dimaggio marries Marilyn Monroe, but the marriage lasts only a year | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Oxford medical student Roger Bannister runs the first four-minute mile, at the Iffley Road track | |
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| 1954 |
| | | 18-year-old English jockey Lester Piggott wins the first of a record nine Derbys | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Seventeen-year-old English footballer Bobby Charlton begins a 19-year career playing for Manchester United | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Melbourne hosts the Olympics, in what becomes known as 'the Friendly Games' | |
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| 1956 |
| | | 18-year-old Australian sprinter Betty Cuthbert wins three gold medals in the Melbourne Olympics, at 100m, 200m and 400m | |
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