Sports
- Efstathios Aloneftis, football player with APOEL NICOSIA
- Anastasios Andreou, 1896 Olympian
- Marcos Baghdatis, tennis player
- Constantinos Charalambidis, football player with Apoel Nicosia
- Dimitris Christofi, football player with Omonoia Nicosia
- Konstantinos Makridis, football player with Omonoia Nicosia
- Christodoulos Christodoulides, judoka
- Murat Erdoğan, football player
- Adamos Efstathiou, football player
- Savva Georgiou, football player
- Marios Hadjiandreou, triple jumper
- Oscar Heidenstam, bodybuilding champion
- Lazaros Iakovou, football player
- Andreas Ioannides, football player
- Kyriakos Ioannou, track and field
- Sotiris Kaiafas, former football player with Omonoia Nicosia and Golden Boot winner
- Prodromos Katsantonis, sprinter
- Michalis Konstantinou, football player with Omonoia Nicosia
- Stylianos Kyriakides, marathon runner
- Anninos Marcoullides, sprinter
- Elena Mousikou, archer
- Yılmaz Orhan, football player
- Dimitri Petrides, Latin American dance pioneer
- Stephanie Solomonides, first Cypriot to ski to the South Pole
- Garo Yepremian, former place kicker for the Miami Dolphins
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“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)
“It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)