Sport Figures
- Sarah Abitbol, figure skater, World Figure Skating Championship bronze
- Jonathan Assous, France/Israel, soccer defensive midfielder (Hapoel Ramat Gan)
- Fabrice Benichou, boxer, world champion super bantamweight
- Ossip Bernstein (1882–1962), Russian-born chess grandmaster
- Jean Bloch, soccer, Olympic silver
- Alain Calmat, figure skater, Olympic silver, World Championship gold, silver, 2x bronze
- François Cevert ((born "François Goldenberg"; 1944–1973) racing driver (half Jewish)
- Robert Cohen (1930–) boxer: World Bantamweight Champion
- Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro, tennis player
- Pierre Darmon (1934–) tennis player, highest world ranking # 8
- René Dreyfus (1905–1993) racing driver
- Yves Dreyfus, épée fencer, Olympic bronze, French champion
- Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi, slalom canoer, Olympic bronze (K-1 slalom), 5 golds at ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships (2x K-1, 3x K-1 team)
- Stéphane Haccoun (1967–), boxer, featherweight, super featherweight, and junior lightweight
- Rudy Haddad, soccer midfielder (LB Châteauroux & U21 national team)
- Alphonse Halimi (1932–2006) boxer: World Bantamweight Champion
- Maurice Herzog (1919–), mountaineer : first 8000 m : mountain Annapurna (1950); later a politician
- Alexandre Lippmann (1881–1960), épée fencer, 2x Olympic champion, 2x silver, bronze
- Armand Mouyal (1925–1988), épée fencer, Olympic bronze, world champion
- Alfred "Artem" Nakache (1915–1983), swimmer; world record (200-m breaststroke), one-third of French 2x world record (3x100 relay team); imprisoned by Nazis in Auschwitz, where his wife and daughter were killed
- Claude Netter (1924–2007), foil fencer, Olympic champion, silver
- François Rozenthal (1975–), ice hockey, France national team; brother of Maurice Rozenthal
- Maurice Rozenthal (1975–), ice hockey, right wing, France national team
- Jean Stern, épée fencer, Olympic champion
- Daniel Wildenstein (1917–2001), racehorse owner
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“What sport shall we devise here in this garden
To drive away the heavy thought of care?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Families suffered badly under industrialization, but they survived, and the lives of men, women, and children improved. Children, once marginal and exploited figures, have moved to a position of greater protection and respect,... The historic decline in the overall death rates for children is an astonishing social fact, notwithstanding the disgraceful infant mortality figures for the poor and minorities. Like the decline in death from childbirth for women, this is a stunning achievement.”
—Joseph Featherstone (20th century)