Sport
- Alex Bogdanovic, tennis player
- Tom Cleverley, footballer for Manchester United
- Tom Croft, Flanker/Second Row for the England national rugby union team and Leicester Tigers
- Matt Crossley former football player for Wycombe Wanderers F.C.
- Sean Doherty, professional football player
- Joshua Goodall, tennis player
- Dave Holby, Endurance athlete, holder of nine world indoor rowing records
- Oliver Lancashire, professional football player
- Lee Nurse, former Berkshire cricketer
- Josh Payne, footballer for West Ham United
- Tom Rees, Flanker for the England national rugby union team and the London Wasps
- Lee Sandford, professional footballer having played for Portsmouth, Stoke City and Sheffield United
- Kathy Smallwood-Cook, Bronze medal winning Olympic sprinter
- Mitchell Stokes, Hampshire cricketer
- Kit Symons, football coach and former player
- Robert Tobin, Athlete and sprinter
- Shaun Udal, former England test cricketer, Hampshire captain and current Middlesex cricketer
- Rowan Vine, footballer for Queens Park Rangers
- Thomas White, Sussex cricketer
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)