Sport
- Ajaz Akhtar - Cambridgeshire cricketer
- Caroline Atkins (Hild/Bede) - England Cricketer
- Colin Atkinson - Former Somerset cricket captain
- David Balcombe - Hampshire cricketer
- Warren Bradley - Manchester United and England footballer
- Will Carling (Hatfield) - former captain of the England rugby union team
- Mark Chilton - Cricketer and former Lancashire captain
- Holly Colvin (St.Mary's) - England Cricketer (current undergrad)
- Nick Compton - Cricketer
- Daniel Coultas - International Field Hockey player
- Matthew Creese - cricketer
- Tim Curtis (Hatfield)- England cricketer
- Lee Daggett - Cricketer
- P.J. ( Peter Dixon) ( Grey College ) - Captain of England Rugby Union Team 1972. As an uncapped player played in the Lions' first Test victories against New Zealand in 1971, scoring a try in the 14-14 draw at Eden Park.
- Jonathan Edwards (Van Mildert) - Olympic gold medal-winning triple jumper
- Peter Elleray - Formula One and Le Mans Race Car Designer
- Laurie Evans - English cricketer
- Robert Ferley - English cricketer
- James Foster (Collingwood) - cricketer, Essex and England wicketkeeper
- Graeme Fowler - former England and Lancashire cricketer and current coach of the MCC Centre of Excellence
- Phil de Glanville - former captain of the England rugby team
- Will Greenwood (Hatfield) - England rugby player
- Wade Hall-Craggs (Grey) - Olympic rower
- Charlie Hodgson - England rugby player
- Sophie Hosking - Olympic Gold medalist London 2012 in the rowing lightweight double sculls
- Simon Hughes - Cricketer
- Nasser Hussain (Hild Bede) - former captain of the England cricket team
- Ben Hutton - Cricketer
- Douglas Lockhart - Cricketer
- Alex Loudon (Collingwood) - cricketer, all-rounder
- Rahul Mehta (St. Mary's) - Indian long distance runner, most famous for his victory in the 2001 Great North Run
- Tim O'Gorman (St Chad's) - cricketer, former Derbyshire opening batsman
- Will Smith (cricketer) (Collingwood) - Durham County Cricket Club Captain, Durham
- Stephanie Solomonides (Grey) - First Cypriot (male or female) to trek 900 km from the Antarctic coast to the South Pole
- Alexander Stead - Cricketer
- Tim Stimpson (Grey) - England rugby player
- Andrew Strauss (Hatfield) - cricketer, captain of the England cricket team
- Frank 'Typhoon' Tyson (Hatfield) - former England cricketer and Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1956
- Dave Walder - fly-half for the London Wasps
- Robbie Williams - Cricketer
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“For generations, a wide range of shooting in Northern Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which ... has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many other countries, the outstanding characteristic of the sport has been that it was not confined to any one class.”
—Northern Irish Tourist Board. quoted in New Statesman (London, Aug. 29, 1969)
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)
“Americans living in Latin American countries are often more snobbish than the Latins themselves. The typical American has quite a bit of money by Latin American standards, and he rarely sees a countryman who doesn’t. An American businessman who would think nothing of being seen in a sport shirt on the streets of his home town will be shocked and offended at a suggestion that he appear in Rio de Janeiro, for instance, in anything but a coat and tie.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)