Sport Figures
- Sarah Abitbol, figure skater, World Figure Skating Championship bronze
- Jonathan Assous, France/Israel, soccer defensive midfielder (Hapoel Ramat Gan)
- Fabrice Benichou, boxer, world champion super bantamweight
- Ossip Bernstein (1882–1962), Russian-born chess grandmaster
- Jean Bloch, soccer, Olympic silver
- Alain Calmat, figure skater, Olympic silver, World Championship gold, silver, 2x bronze
- François Cevert ((born "François Goldenberg"; 1944–1973) racing driver (half Jewish)
- Robert Cohen (1930–) boxer: World Bantamweight Champion
- Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro, tennis player
- Pierre Darmon (1934–) tennis player, highest world ranking # 8
- René Dreyfus (1905–1993) racing driver
- Yves Dreyfus, épée fencer, Olympic bronze, French champion
- Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi, slalom canoer, Olympic bronze (K-1 slalom), 5 golds at ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships (2x K-1, 3x K-1 team)
- Stéphane Haccoun (1967–), boxer, featherweight, super featherweight, and junior lightweight
- Rudy Haddad, soccer midfielder (LB Châteauroux & U21 national team)
- Alphonse Halimi (1932–2006) boxer: World Bantamweight Champion
- Maurice Herzog (1919–), mountaineer : first 8000 m : mountain Annapurna (1950); later a politician
- Alexandre Lippmann (1881–1960), épée fencer, 2x Olympic champion, 2x silver, bronze
- Armand Mouyal (1925–1988), épée fencer, Olympic bronze, world champion
- Alfred "Artem" Nakache (1915–1983), swimmer; world record (200-m breaststroke), one-third of French 2x world record (3x100 relay team); imprisoned by Nazis in Auschwitz, where his wife and daughter were killed
- Claude Netter (1924–2007), foil fencer, Olympic champion, silver
- François Rozenthal (1975–), ice hockey, France national team; brother of Maurice Rozenthal
- Maurice Rozenthal (1975–), ice hockey, right wing, France national team
- Jean Stern, épée fencer, Olympic champion
- Daniel Wildenstein (1917–2001), racehorse owner
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Famous quotes containing the words sport and/or figures:
“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)
“But that wasn’t fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them,
With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to
people they say Oh yes, they’re the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.”
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)