Sport
- Nick Barmby, former Hull City A.F.C. winger and manager
- Luke Campbell, Olympic champion who earned a gold medal in boxing at the London 2012 Summer Olympics
- Stanley Gene, rugby league player (retired 2008) who has made East Hull his home for many years.
- Lewis Harris, rugby league player
- Damian Johnson BBC Sports broadcaster and journalist
- Ebenezer Cobb Morley (1831 – 1924), sportsman regarded as the father of The Football Association and modern Football.
- Katie O'Brien, professional tennis player currently seeded second in the UK and in the top 100 in the world
- Clive Sullivan, rugby league player, played for both of Hull's rugby league teams. The main road into the city from the Humber Bridge is named after him (Clive Sullivan Way).
- Dean Windass, who had two spells with Hull City and scored the goal which helped the club to promotion to the top flight of English football for the first time in the club's history.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“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)
“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)
“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)