Sports
- Mike Anderson, University of Alabama at Birmingham basketball coach
- Charles Barkley, basketball player
- Gene Bartow, former basketball coach and Athletic Director for University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Bruce Benedict, born in Birmingham, major league baseball player
- Eric Bledsoe, basketball player
- Neil Bonnett, Sports Hall of Fame NASCAR Driver, TV Personality and NASCAR Announcer, born in Birmingham.
- Lyman Bostock, born in Birmingham, major league baseball player
- Bobby Bowden, football coach
- Jerricho Cotchery New York Jets WR
- Bubba Church, born in Birmingham, major league baseball player
- Ted Cook, football player
- Karlos Dansby, football player
- Marcel Dareus, football player for Buffalo Bills
- Mike Davis, University of Alabama at Birmingham basketball coach
- Spud Davis, born in Birmingham, major league baseball player
- Tom Drake, born in Birmingham, major league baseball player
- Vonetta Flowers, Olympic Gold-medalist and bobsledder
- Vince Gibson, football coach
- Alex Grammas, born in Birmingham, major league baseball player
- Hubie Green, professional golfer
- Jerry Hairston, Sr., born in Birmingham, major league baseball player
- Samuel H. Hairston, baseball player
- Darrin Hancock, NBA player for Charlotte Hornets, Milwaukee Bucks, Atlanta Hawks, and San Antonio Spurs
- Trey Hardee, Division I track and field collegiate heptathlon and decathlon record holder, 2008 Olympic Games qualifier
- Chandler Hoffman, born in Birmingham, Major League Soccer Player for the Philadelphia Union
- Bobby Humphrey, University of Alabama football player, Miami Dolphins, Denver Broncos
- Bo Jackson, multi-sport athlete
- Ron Jackson, born in Birmingham, major league baseball player
- Desmond Jennings, baseball player
- Ken Jordan, football player
- Carl Lewis, born in Birmingham, Olympic gold-medalist and World champion, track and field athlete
- Theodore Long, general manager of WWE Smackdown
- Larry Mason, football player
- Lee May, born in Birmingham, major league baseball player
- Willie Mays, baseball player
- Larry McReynolds – announcer for NASCAR on FOX
- Charlie Moore, MLB player for Milwaukee Brewers and Toronto Blue Jays
- Tony Nathan, football player and coach
- Gus Niarhos, born in Birmingham, major league baseball player
- Satchel Paige, baseball player
- Erk Russell, football player
- Ed Salem, football player and Birmingham restaurateur
- Jason Standridge, major league baseball player
- Ronald Steele, Basketball player
- Rebel Steiner, football player
- Pat Sullivan, 1971 Heisman Trophy winner and head football coach at Samford University
- Dabo Swinney, born in Birmingham, Clemson University head football coach
- Dan Thomas – MLB player for Milwaukee Brewers
- Andre Tippett, NFL Hall of Fame linebacker
- Virgil Trucks, born in Birmingham, major league baseball player
- Bob Veale, born in Birmingham, major league baseball player
- Dixie Walker, baseball player
- Al Worthington, born in Birmingham, major league baseball player
- John Zimmerman, professional pairs figure skater
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)