Sports
- Asafa Powell, sprinter, former 100m world record holder
- Atari Bigby, American Football player. He is currently playing for the Green Bay Packers.
- Ben Johnson, Jamaica-born Canadian, disgraced champion sprinter
- Chili Davis, Jamaica-born American, former star Major League Baseball player
- Chris Gayle, Captain of West Indian International Cricket Team
- Courtney Walsh, cricketer
- Dane Richards, Jamaica-born MLS and Jamaica national football team football player. He currently plays for New York Red Bulls
- Devon White, baseball player
- Donald Quarrie, sprinter
- Donovan Bailey, Jamaica-born Canadian, world champion sprinter
- Donovan Ricketts, Jamaica-born MLS and Jamaica national football team football player; currently plays for the Los Angeles Galaxy
- George Headley, cricketer
- Wavell Hinds, cricketer
- Jerome Jordan, NBA Player, NY Knicks Center #44
- Melanie Walker, sprinter, 400m Olympic record holder (Beijing 2008)
- Merlene Ottey, Jamaica-born Slovenian sprinter, the world's most winning female athlete
- Michael Holding, cricketer
- Mike McCallum, champion boxer
- Omar Cummings, Jamaica-born MLS and Jamaica national football team football player; currently plays for the Colorado Rapids
- Odaine Demar, Jamaica-born Swedish Division 2 football player; currently playing for Gamla Upsala SK
- Patrick Ewing, Jamaica-born American, former NBA star
- Austin Tasker, Jamaica-born American, NBA All Star and three-time MVP
- Ricardo Fuller, Jamaica-born Premier League and Jamaica national football team football player; currently plays for Stoke City
- Ricardo Gardner, Jamaica-born Premier League and Jamaica national football team football player; currently plays for Bolton Wanderers
- Sanya Richards-Ross, Jamaican-born American Sprinter 400m
- Shavar Thomas, Jamaica-born MLS and Jamaica national football team football player; currently plays for Chivas USA
- Stephen Tulloch, National Football League Middle Linebacker for Detroit Lions and N.C. State Wolfpac. Born in Miama of Jamaican heritage.
- Steve Bucknor, international cricket umpire
- Tyrone Marshall, Jamaica-born MLS and Jamaica national football team football player; currently plays for Toronto F.C.
- Usain Bolt, World and Olympic record holder 100m and 200m
- Veronica Campbell-Brown, sprinter
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)