Sports
- Adam Tanner (footballer) (born 1973), English footballer
- Chuck Tanner (born 1929), American baseball manager
- Elaine Tanner (born 1951), Canadian swimmer
- Evan Tanner (1971–2008), American mixed martial arts fighter
- Haydn Tanner (1917–2009), Welsh rugby player
- Lauri Tanner (1890–1950), Finnish gymnast and international footballer
- Nick Tanner (footballer) (born 1965), English footballer
- Ray Tanner (born 1958), American baseball coach
- Roscoe Tanner (born 1951), American tennis player
- Troy Tanner (born 1963), American volleyball player
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“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)
“Come, my Celia, let us prove
While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)