Athletes
- Footballers
- Mike Murphy (American football), American football coach
- Michael Murphy (Australian footballer) (born 1965), former VFL/AFL player
- Mike Murphy (Canadian football), former Canadian Football League fullback
- Michael Murphy (Gaelic footballer) (born 1989), Donegal and Glenswilly sportsman
- Michael Murphy (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1970s for Wales, and Bradford Northern
- Other sports
- Mike Murphy (baseball) (1888–1952), American Major League Baseball catcher
- Michael Murphy (diver) (born 1973), retired Australian Olympic diver
- Mike Murphy (ice hockey b. 1950), retired ice hockey player and head coach, currently NHL vice-president of hockey operations
- Mike Murphy (ice hockey b. 1989), ice hockey player, currently playing for Spartak Moscow in the KHL
- Mick Murphy (Limerick hurler) (1897–1955), Irish hurler who played as a goalkeeper for the Limerick senior team
- Mick Murphy (Tipperary hurler) (born 1940), former Irish sportsperson
- Mike Murphy (trainer and coach) (1860–1913), trainer of boxing champion John L. Sullivan, first Michigan Wolverines football coach, and the "father of American track athletics"
- Michael Murphy, head women's basketball coach for Troy University
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