There may not be two players more closely associated with San Jose professional sports than Patrick Marleau and Chris Wondolowski.

It’s fitting, then, that the two will enter the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame together.

Marleau and Wondolowski will be half of the four-person Class of 2023, the San Jose Sports Authority announced on Monday. They will be joined by two South Bay natives in former All-Star pitcher Dave Stieb and U.S. soccer star Lorrie Fair.

Marleau was the Sharks’ second overall pick in the 1997 NHL Draft (only behind future Shark teammate Joe Thornton) and immediately joined the San Jose roster at age 18. Over a 23-year career where he broke the NHL record for most games played (1,779), Marleau played for the Sharks in 21 seasons for a total of 1,607 games.

Marleau was a key piece of San Jose’s surge to the top of the NHL and helped the Sharks reach their only Stanley Cup Finals in 2016 with a strong postseason. Though he twice left the Sharks — once as a free agent to Toronto and once in a trade to Pittsburgh — he returned home to the Sharks both times and finished his career in teal.

He remains the franchise’s all-time leader in goals (522), points (1,111), shots (3,953) and games played. He became the first Sharks player to have his jersey number retired last season, as the franchise raised his No. 12 to the rafters on Feb. 25.

Wondolowski is a true Bay Area local. He was born in Danville and attended De La Salle High School in Concord. After the Earthquakes drafted him out of Chico State in the 2005 draft, Wondolowski made three appearances for the Quakes before the franchise moved to Houston, but a 2009 trade brought the striker back home to the Bay Area.

The forward twice won the Golden Boot for most goals in a season, earned the Major League Soccer Most Valuable Player award in 2012 was named a five-time all-star and a three-time MLS Best XI selection. Wondolowski broke the MLS record for most goals in a career in 2019 and finished his MLS career after 2021 with 171 goals, scoring all but four for the Quakes.

Wondolowski has remained a part of the Quakes organization after retiring, including stepping in as an interim assistant coach last year.

“I am honored to be inducted into the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame alongside such a great group of athletes,” Wondolowski said in a statement released by the Quakes. “I spent my childhood attending Clash and Earthquakes games and most of my career playing in San Jose, so I am thrilled to be a part of this Hall of Fame in my hometown.

Fair grew up in Los Altos and attended Los Altos High School before going to North Carolina, where she won three national championships for the powerhouse Tar Heels and was twice an All-American as a midfielder.

After college, Fair became a mainstay on the U.S. women’s national team, including as part of the 1999 Women’s World Cup-winning team. Fair was also involved in three Olympics for the USWNT, most notably playing every minute as the U.S. took silver in Sydney. She finished her career with 120 appearances with the USWNT. She and her twin sister, Ronnie, also became the first pair of sisters to play for the USWNT together in a 1997 match in San Jose.

Though Stieb was born in Santa Ana, he went to Oak Grove High School in San Jose and San Jose City College before finishing up his collegiate career at Southern Illinois University.

Stieb was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in 1978 and was in the big leagues within a year, where he shined for Toronto for 14 years. Stieb would get seven All-Star nods and finished in the top 10 in Cy Young voting four times. He finished his career with a 176-137 record and a 3.44 ERA across 16 seasons. Stieb’s career was also recently featured in a multi-part documentary series.

“San Jose’s incredibly rich and diverse sports history makes the Hall of Fame selection process very difficult each year,” Charlie Faas, chairman of the San Jose Sports Authority Board of Directors, said in a statement. “The Class of 2023 is a wonderful representation of the deep and meaningful impact athletes and coaches with South Bay connections have made in their respective sports, locally, nationally and internationally. We are excited to welcome these four remarkable individuals into the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame.”

The quartet will be inducted at the SJSA’s annual event in November. The exact date will be finalized once the NHL schedule is released.