Muhammad Ali is a man.
Muhammad Ali . He is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century . At age 18 , he won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome and turned professional later that year . He is the only boxer to be named The Ring magazine Fighter of the Year six times . Muhammad Ali ( [ mɔːˈlɑːnə_mʊˈhɑːməd_ɑːˈliː ] محمد على ; 1874 -- 13 October 1951 ) was an Indian writer , scholar , and leading figure of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement .