List of countries with their first Major League Baseball player

The following is a list of countries with their first Major League Baseball player.

Players born in over 50 countries and on every continent except Antarctica have now appeared in major league games.

Considerations: Listed players appeared in at least one game of a professional baseball major league (commonly referred to as Major League Baseball, although that entity did not exist before 1903), which encompasses: The seven major Negro leagues from 1920 to 1948 were officially recognized as "major leagues" in December 2020.

[1] Note that the status of the National Association as a major league is in dispute.

‡ Immigrated to, raised in, and/or developed in the United States.

In 1964, Masanori Murakami became the first player born in Japan to appear in a major league game.
The European countries highlighted in blue have had a least one player born there play in a major league game, through the 2019 season.