The purpose of this study was to compare the personality traits between athletes and non athletes of Mahrishi Dayanand University. The study was conducted on hundred samples, consisting of fifty athletes and fifty non athletes of different colleges affiliated to Mahrishi Dayanand University. Personality traits were obtained by administrating Sports Specific Personality Test. The data collected through a foresaid tests were analyzed with respect to personality traits. T test was applied to compute the significances among two groups. The significance of data was judged at .05 levels. The result of the study indicates that the differences of means were significant for all personality traits at .05 levels.