List of French Jews - Sport Figures

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