Trivia

Youngest world champion surfer at 20 and oldest world champion at 39.

The only to be world champion surfer five years in a row.

Oldest to win a pro surfing contest at age 41.

Kelly and former girlfriend Pamela Anderson were co-stars in Baywatch. Kelly played a guy who dreamed of becoming pro surfer and he won his first world title in real life same year, 1992.

Has a record 7 Pipeline Masters wins.

First professional surfer to earn a million dollars in prize money.

Was a top student, math was his favorite subject.

Greatest surfer of all time.

Is a record 11-time world champion surfer.

Won surfing world titles in 1992, 1994-1998, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2011.

One of his maternal great-grandfathers was Syrian. The rest of Kelly's ancestry is English, Irish, and German.

World champion surfer. Voted cutest in high school.

Slater Way in his hometown Cocoa Beach is named after him.

He has surfed in over 15 countries.

Was model for Versace.

Has two Quiksilver stores named after him.

Statue of Kelly arrived in Cocoa Beach same day as he won 10th surfing world title.(November 6, 2010).

Kelly was number one of the most influential people in action sports by ESPN.

Friends with Cameron Diaz and Eddie Vedder.

Had relationship with Gisele Bündchen.

Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world in 1991.

Has a daughter, Taylor, with Tamara, born in June 1996.

Kelly's biography "Pipe Dreams: A Surfer's Journey." was published in 2003.

Kelly's book "Kelly Slater:For the love" was published in 2008.

Has two brothers and a half-brother on father's side.

Was on the cover of Interview Magazine in May 1996, photographed by Bruce Weber.

Signed with Quiksilver at the age of 18 (1990).

Retired from surfing contests 1999-2001.

His longtime partner is Kalani Miller.