People started surfing a long time ago. In the 1400s,people in the group of islands we now call Hawaii surfed as a spot. but one person made surfing famous. His name was Duke Kahanamoku.
Duke was born in Honolulu,Hawaii in 1890. When he was a boy , he loved swimming and surfing. He also liked sleeping. In 1912, at the Olympics in Stockholm,Sweden, he fell asleep before his race! Everyone had to wait while he put on his swimsuit. He swam very fast. Belgium, he broke the world record again.