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Parents ran sex shops in Soho.

Winner of the UK Snooker Championship in 1993, 1997, 2001, 2007, 2014, 2017, 2018 and 2023. Runner-up in 2016.

Winner of the World Snooker Championship in 2001, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2020 and 2022 . Runner-up in 2014.

Noted for declaring his intention to quit playing snooker repeatedly. He worked during the 2012/13 season in a pig farm.

Has 3 children: Taylor-Ann Magnus (born 1996) from a two-year relationship with Sally Magnus. Lily (born 2006) and Ronnie Jr. (born 2007) with his former girlfriend Jo Langley, whom he met at Narcotics Anonymous.

His mother Maria is from Sicily and his paternal grandfather hails from Cork, Ireland.

Got engaged to British actress Laila Rouass in February 2013. In September 2024 announced their separation.

In snooker, he is a century break record holder. As of December 2024, he has compiled 1270 century breaks.

Scored 15 ratified competitive maximum breaks, the most by any professional snooker player.

Holds the record for the fastest maximum break (15 reds followed by 15 blacks for 120 points, followed by yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black scoring 27 points) in snooker. He achieved the feat in the 1st round of 1997 World Snooker Championship, recorded as 5 minutes and 20 seconds. However, in 2017, an investigation undertaken by Deadspin, a sports blog, revealed that the time published by Guinness World Records is incorrect because the timer was started too early on the BBC footage. Snooker breaks are not officially timed and the official rules of snooker do not specify how they should be timed, leaving the timing to the discretion of the broadcaster. The only timing methodology World Snooker sanctions in its events is the one employed in shot clock events where timing for a player's shot begins when the balls have come to rest from his opponent's previous shot. Under this convention the break would have been timed at 5 minutes and 15 seconds. However, The World Snooker Tour has since suggested that a break starts when the player strikes the cue ball for the first time in a break which would result in a time of 5 minutes and 8 seconds, and this is the time that World Snooker now officially acknowledges.

Winner of 8 Masters titles in 1995, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2024. Runner-up in 1996, 1997, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2019.

Holds the record for the most unanswered points during a match. He scored 556 points without reply during his 6-0 whitewash against Ricky Walden in the 2014 Masters. He also finished the entire match in less than 1 hour in doing so.

In 2004, he appeared on British motoring show Top Gear as the "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car", and finished with a time of 1:47.3 around the test track in a Suzuki Liana.

Attended Wanstead High School.

Is a keen football fan and supports Arsenal.

Snooker player Peter Ebdon called him The Mozart of Snooker.

Made his first century break at the age of 10.

Has won 20 Triple Crown events, the most by any player. His most recent Triple Crown victory was winning the 2020 World Snooker Championship.

On 10th March 2019, he retained his Players Championship by defeating Neil Robertson 10-4 in the final. It was the 14th frame where he made his 1000th competitive century by compiling a 134 break to retain the title. Runner up Robertson, however, still received £5,000 for the highest break prize as the cue ball was also potted when O'Sullivan attempted to pot the final black for a 141 break in that match winning frame.

Is the oldest winner of every triple crown event. He won the 2022 World Snooker Championship at the age of 46, the 2023 UK Championship at the age of 47 and the 2024 Masters at the age of 48. He is also the youngest winner of the UK Championship and the Masters, having won them in 1993 (at 17 years old) and 1995 (at 19 years old) respectively,.

Of the 127 finals (1993-2024) O'Sullivan competed in during his professional career, with 83 titles (second to Steve Davis, at 84) his win rate was 65.35%, as of April 2024. This calculation is made from ranking, minor ranking and non-ranking titles. In comparison, Steve Davis had a win rate of 68.85% from 122 finals (1980-2018).

Has won 80 professional titles, with only Steve Davis having won more, at 84 (as of March 2025).

As a child, his hero was Steve Davis, and modeled his game on him.