Michael Phelps in 2017.

This is the top 15 male Olympic swimming gold medals.

	Name	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1.	Michael Phelps	23	3	2	28
2.	Mark Spitz	9	1	1	11
3.	Matt Biondi	8	2	1	11
4.	Caeleb Dressel	7	0	0	7
5.	Ryan Lochte	6	3	3	12
6.	Gary Hall, Jr.	5	3	2	10
7.	Ian Thorpe	5	3	1	9
8.	Aaron Peirsol	5	2	0	7
9.	Nathan Adrian	5	1	2	8
10.	Tom Jager	5	1	1	7
11.	Don Schollander	5	1	0	6
12.	Johnny Weissmuller	5	0	0	5
13.	Alexander Popov	4	5	0	9
14.	Roland Matthes	4	2	2	8
	Jason Lezak	4	2	2	8

This is the top 15 female Olympic swimming gold medalists:

	Name	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1.	Jenny Thompson	8	3	1	12
2.	Katie Ledecky	7	3	0	10
3.	Kristin Otto	6	0	0	6
	Amy Van Dyken	6	0	0	6
5.	Emma McKeon	5	2	4	11
6.	Krisztina Egerszegi	5	1	1	7
	Dana Vollmer	5	1	1	7
8.	Missy Franklin	5	0	1	6
9.	Dara Torres	4	4	4	12
10.	Dawn Fraser	4	4	0	8
	Kornelia Ender	4	4	0	8
12.	Allison Schmitt	4	3	3	10
13.	Inge de Bruijn	4	2	2	8
14.	Cate Campbell	4	1	3	8
15.	Libby Trickett	4	1	2	7

Individual events

All swimmers with at least four individual gold medals are listed.

Men

	Name	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1.	Michael Phelps	13	2	1	16
2.	Mark Spitz	4	1	1	6
3.	Alexander Popov	4	1	0	5
4.	Roland Matthes	4	0	1	5
5.	Tamás Darnyi	4	0	0	4
	Kosuke Kitajima	4	0	0	4

Women

	Name	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1.	Katie Ledecky	6	1	0	7
2.	Krisztina Egerszegi	5	1	1	7
3.	Inge de Bruijn	4	1	1	6
4.	Janet Evans	4	1	0	5
	Yana Klochkova	4	1	0	5
6.	Kristin Otto	4	0	0	4

See also

• List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (men)
• List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)
• List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
• List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
• List of individual gold medalists in swimming at the Olympics and World Aquatics Championships (men)
• List of individual gold medalists in swimming at the Olympics and World Aquatics Championships (women)
• List of gold medalist relay teams in swimming at the Olympics and World Aquatics Championships
• European Aquatics Championships – Multiple medalists in swimming

References

• HistoFINA SWIMMING MEDALLISTS AND STATISTICS AT OLYMPIC GAMES
• List of multiple Olympic gold medalists