List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World champions

List of world champion of the FIM World Motorcycle Championship, from 1949 to 2014, sorted by year and classes.

Solo World Champion

Team world champion

List of racers, the world champions were repeatedly

List of racing drivers, the double world champion was in a year

Comments

• John Surtees is still the only rider world champion titles in the 350 cc, 500 cc and won in Formula 1 (1964). Only three other motorcycle world champion drove in Formula One: Nello Pagani, Mike Hailwood and Johnny Cecotto.
• Valentino Rossi is the only motorcycle racer, the four world titles in four different classes won (125 cc, 250 cc, 500 cc and MotoGP )
• Loris Capirossi is the only motorcycle racer who won the world title in his first season, 1990.
• Emilio Alzamora is the first motorcycle racer who won the world title in the 125 cc class without winning a single race in the 1999 season.
• Rupert Hollaus is currently the only posthumous solo world champion. He was killed in 1954 as already fixed world champion 125 cc class during practice for the Grand Prix of Nations at Monza fatal.