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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (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)