Jeff Hakman

Jeff Hakman is an American world surfing champion who later became a businessman. He started surfing in 1956 at age eight in Palos Verdes, California, moved to Hawaii at ten, surfed Waimea Bay at fourteen, and at seventeen won the Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surfing Championship. Between the ages of 21 and 27 he won more major surfing titles than anyone in the world, including the first Pipe Masters at the Banzai Pipeline and the 1976 Bells Beach contest, and he was the unofficial world champion in 1974 and 1975. In 1976 he founded Quiksilver America with Bob McKnight, in 1984 he founded Quiksilver Europe, and in 2009 he was inducted into the Surfers' Hall of Fame in Huntington Beach, California.