List of NBA career personal fouls leaders

This is a list of National Basketball Association (NBA) players by total career regular season personal fouls recorded, followed by a progressive list of personal fouls leaders showing how the record increased through the years. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar holds the career record with 4,657 personal fouls, while Darryl Dawkins holds the single-season record with 386 in the 1983–84 season.