Sport
- Micky Adams, footballer
- John Amaechi, NBA basketball player
- Gordon Banks, footballer
- Dave Bassett, football manager
- Steven Bellamy, British Karate Team
- Danny Bergara, footballer and football manager
- Kell Brook, Professional Boxer
- Jon Brown, marathon runner
- Gary Cahill, footballer
- Lee Chapman, footballer
- Charles Clegg, footballer and Chairman of the Football Association
- William Clegg, footballer and politician
- Sebastian Coe, track and field athlete
- Tommy Crawshaw, footballer for England and Shefffield Wednesday.
- Lucy Creamer, climber
- Louis Dodds, football player
- Derek Dooley, footballer
- David Fraser-Darling, cricketer
- Malcolm Elliott, Professional cyclist
- Jessica Ennis, athlete
- David Ford, footballer, scored in 1966 F.A. Cup Final
- William Foulke, aka "Fatty" Foulks. Goalkeeper
- Trevor Francis, footballer and football manager
- Redfern Froggatt, footballer
- Paul Goodison, sailor
- Herol 'Bomber' Graham, boxer
- Andrew Griffiths, field hockey forward
- Keith Hackett, football referee
- Naseem Hamed, boxer
- Ernest Harper, Olympic athlete
- Donna Hartley, Olympic sprinter & Commonwealth gold medalist
- David Hirst, footballer
- Emlyn Hughes, footballer and football manager
- Brendan Ingle, boxing trainer
- Paul Jones, boxer
- Nick Matthew, squash player
- Reg Matthewson, footballer.
- Don Megson, footballer
- Gary Megson, footballer and football manager
- Ben Moon, rock climber
- John Motson, football commentator.
- Kyle Naughton, footballer
- Johnny Nelson, boxer
- Carlton Palmer, footballer
- Tony Parkes, assistant football manager
- Steve Peat, Professional cyclist. Three time UCI downhill world cup overall series champion
- Albert Quixall, footballer
- Jamie Reeves, winner of World's Strongest Man
- Uriah Rennie, football referee
- Ryan Rhodes, boxer
- Dave Richards, Chairman of FA Premier League and Chairman of Sheffield Wednesday
- Mark Roe, professional golfer, coach and commentator
- Alan Rouse, mountaineer
- Jackie Sewell, footballer
- Billy Sharp, footballer
- John Sherwood, International 400 metre Hurdler.
- Sheila Sherwood, international long jumper 1962 - 1974.
- David Sherwood, tennis player
- Ron Shudra, former NHL Ice Hockey player
- Joe Simpson, mountaineer
- Jim Smith, footballer and football manager
- Timothy Smith, cricketer
- Ron Springett, football goalkeeper
- Mel Sterland, footballer
- Roger Taylor, tennis player, Wimbledon semi-finalist 1973
- Thomas Thorpe, cricketer
- Will Thursfield, footballer
- Geoff Thompson, chairman of the Football Association
- George Ulyett, Test cricketer
- Michael Vaughan, captain of England cricket team from 2003 to 2008
- Chris Waddle, England footballer
- Edward Wainwright, Test cricketer
- Kyle Walker, footballer, England Right-back
- Neil Warnock, footballer and football manager
- Nicky Weaver, goalkeeper
- Howard Wilkinson, football manager
- Justin Wilson, motor-racing driver
- Dennis Woodhead, footballer 1947 - 1959
- Chris Woods, football goalkeeper
- Clinton Woods, boxer
- Nigel Worthington, footballer and football manager
- Harry Wragg, jockey and trainer
- Harry Wright, major league baseball player
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)
“Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
“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)