An historic wall honouring the players, pioneers and champions of Australia, New Zealand, England, Ireland, China, the Philippines, South Korea and the United States.
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🇦🇺Walter Lindrum
“Wally”
Australia's greatest English billiards champion and one of the finest cueists of any era, holding the World Professional Billiards Championship for nearly two decades.
🇦🇺Eddie Charlton
“Steady Eddie”
1929–2004
Gone but not forgotten
Australia's most successful professional snooker player of his generation, a three-time World Championship runner-up who carried the nation's game for three decades.
🇦🇺Neil Robertson
“The Thunder from Down Under”
The first Australian to win the modern World Snooker Championship and the first player from outside the United Kingdom to top the world rankings — the standard-bearer for Australian snooker.
🇦🇺Shawn Budd
A champion across snooker, pool and billiards in Australia, New Zealand, England and America — the only Australian to have won Australian Open Snooker, Australian National Snooker, Australian 9-ball and 8-ball titles.
🇦🇺Quentin Hann
One of Australia's finest nine-ball players, who reached the final of the 1995 WPA World Nine-ball Championship — the closest an Australian has come to the world pool crown.
🇦🇺Robbie Folvari
A leading Australian professional of the 1980s and 1990s who competed on the world professional snooker circuit and won national honours.
🇦🇺Kathy Parashis
A trailblazer of Australian women's snooker, a multiple national champion who represented Australia on the world women's stage and opened doors for the generations that followed.
🇳🇿Dene O'Kane
1963–2024
Gone but not forgotten
New Zealand's finest professional snooker player, twice a World Championship quarter-finalist at the Crucible and a top-16 ranked player.
🇳🇿Molrudee Kasemchaiyanan
1979–2022
Gone but not forgotten
A leading New Zealand women's pool player and WPA Board member who represented her adopted country on the world stage, remembered as one of the game's warmest ambassadors.
🇳🇿Harry Haenga
A nine-time New Zealand snooker champion and decorated international representative whose longevity has made him one of the country's most respected all-round cueists.
🏴Joe Davis
The founding father of professional snooker, who created the World Championship and never lost a world-title match in his career.
🏴Steve Davis
“The Nugget”
The man who turned snooker into a televised phenomenon, dominating the 1980s with methodical, near-flawless play.
🏴Ronnie O'Sullivan
“The Rocket”
Widely regarded as the most naturally gifted snooker player in history, with the fastest maximum break ever recorded at the 1997 World Championship.
🏴Jimmy White
“The Whirlwind”
The people's champion — six-time world finalist whose flair and attacking style made him snooker's most beloved figure.
🏴Darren Appleton
“Dynamite”
England's leading nine-ball player of his generation, a world champion and multiple U.S. Open winner.
🏴Allison Fisher
“The Duchess of Doom”
A transformative figure in women's cue sports who dominated both snooker and nine-ball, helping to globalise the women's game.
🇮🇪Alex Higgins
“Hurricane”
The charismatic showman who dragged snooker into the mainstream, playing at breakneck speed and drawing millions to the sport.
🇮🇪Dennis Taylor
Winner of the most famous frame in snooker history — the black-ball finish of the 1985 World Championship watched by 18.5 million viewers.
🇮🇪Ken Doherty
“The Darlin' of Dublin”
The only player to have won the World Amateur, World Under-21 and World Professional snooker championships.
🇮🇪Karen Corr
“The Irish Invader”
A world-class player in both snooker and pool who became one of the WPBA tour's all-time leading title winners.
🇨🇳Ding Junhui
The player who ignited China's snooker boom, becoming Asia's most successful professional and inspiring a generation of Chinese cueists.
🇨🇳Pan Xiaoting
China's breakthrough women's pool star, whose world titles and global profile helped make pool a mainstream sport in China.
🇵🇭Efren Reyes
“The Magician”
Widely considered the greatest pool player of all time, famous for seemingly impossible shot-making and creativity across nine-ball, eight-ball and one-pocket.
🇵🇭Francisco Bustamante
“Django”
One of the hardest breakers and purest strikers the game has seen, and half of the legendary Filipino World Cup of Pool partnership with Efren Reyes.
🇵🇭Dennis Orcollo
“Robocop”
A relentlessly consistent champion regarded as one of the finest all-round money-game and tournament players of the modern era.
🇵🇭Rubilen Amit
The Philippines' greatest women's player and the first Filipina to win a world pool title, opening the door for women's cue sports in Asia.
🇰🇷Kim Ga-young
“Little Devil Girl”
South Korea's greatest women's pool player, a multiple world champion whose WPBA dominance and rivalry with Pan Xiaoting brought the women's game to a global audience.
🇺🇸Willie Mosconi
“Mr. Pocket Billiards”
1913–1993
Gone but not forgotten
The most dominant straight pool champion in history and America's first great pool ambassador, whose exhibition tours and work on The Hustler brought pocket billiards into the American mainstream.
🇺🇸Minnesota Fats
“The Prince of Pool”
1913–1996
Gone but not forgotten
America's greatest entertainer — a cultural icon more than a tournament champion, whose showmanship after The Hustler made him the most famous name in cue sports worldwide.
🇺🇸Ralph Greenleaf
“The King of the Green Cloth”
1899–1950
Gone but not forgotten
The early-era giant of American cue sports and the first national pool superstar, whose flamboyant brilliance defined the golden age of straight pool.
🇺🇸Earl Strickland
“Earl the Pearl”
America's most explosive modern talent — a fierce competitor with more than a hundred professional titles and one of the finest nine-ball players ever to pick up a cue.
🇺🇸Shane Van Boening
“The South Dakota Kid”
Modern America's greatest champion — a relentless tour professional whose ferocious break and big-game temperament carried the US flag at the top of world pool for two decades.
Jean Balukas
“The Queen of Pool”
The greatest American female pool player of all time, a child prodigy who dominated the 1970s and 1980s with a level of skill often compared to the top men of her era.
Jennifer Barretta
One of the most consistent U.S. women in international nine-ball, a fixture at the top of the professional tour for two decades.
🇺🇸Ewa Mataya Laurance
“The Striking Viking”
The Striking Viking — a world champion, bestselling author and broadcaster whose huge cultural impact carried women's pool into the American mainstream.
Loree Jon Hasson
“Queen of the Hill”
A world champion and U.S. Open champion whose two-decade run as America's leading star made her one of women's pool's all-time greats.
Monica Webb
A top American professional for two decades, a relentless competitor who reached multiple major finals across the international women's tour.
🇺🇸Jeanette Lee
“The Black Widow”
America's most iconic female pool player — not the all-time best on pure titles, but unquestionably the most famous, influential and culturally important, whose Black Widow persona made pool stars of women overnight.
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