Sports
- Giles Baring - cricketer
- Glyn Barnett - rifleman, Commonwealth Games gold medallist 2006
- Tom Bourdillon - mountaineer
- Gawain Briars - British No. 1 squash player
- 11th Earl of Northesk - Olympic medallist (skeleton, 1928)
- Andrew Corran - cricketer
- Peter Croft, cricketer and Olympic field hockey player
- Matthew Dickinson - mountaineer and adventurer
- Natasha Firman - Formula Woman racing driver
- Ralph Firman - Formula One racing driver
- Richard Leman - hockey player and Olympic gold medallist
- Peter Lloyd - mountaineer
- Andy Mulligan - captain of Ireland and the British and Irish Lions Rugby XV
- Ben Pienaar - rugby union player and Junior National Champion at judo
- Pat Symonds - Formula One racing
- Nick Youngs - England rugby union footballer
- Ben Youngs - England Rugby Team and member of Leicester Tigers and Heineken Cup medal winner
- Tom Youngs - member of England squad at Rugby sevens
- Sir Percy Wyn-Harris - mountaineer
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“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)
“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)