Sports
| Name | Life | Comments | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Ashe | (1943–1993) | American tennis player and social activist; won three Grand Slam titles. | |
| Mike Beuttler | (1940–1988) | British Formula One driver. | |
| Glenn Burke | (1952–1995) | American Major League Baseball player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland Athletics. | |
| John Curry | (1949–1994) | British figure skater who won the Olympic and World Championships in 1976. | |
| Esteban De Jesús | (1951–1989) | Puerto Rican boxer; world lightweight champion. | |
| Rudy Galindo | (born 1969) | American figure skater; won a bronze medal at the 1996 World Championships. | |
| Bill Goldsworthy | (1944–1996) | Canadian ice hockey player; played in the National Hockey League for fourteen seasons. | |
| Magic Johnson | (born 1959) | American basketball player; was named to the NBA All-Star team twelve times. | |
| Job Komol | (born 1981) | Cameroonian soccerplayer at Vitesse | |
| Greg Louganis | (born 1960) | American Olympic diver; best known for winning back-to-back Olympic titles in both the 3 m and 10 m events. | |
| Robert McCall | (1958–1991) | Canadian figure skater; won a bronze medal at the 1988 Winter Olympics. | |
| Ondrej Nepela | (1951–1989) | Slovak figure skater, was Olympic champion in 1972. | |
| Tim Richmond | (1955–1989) | American NASCAR racing driver. | |
| Roy Simmons | (born 1956) | American athlete who played for the National Football League. | |
| Jerry Smith | (1943–1987) | American professional football player; tight end for the Washington Redskins. | |
| Tom Waddell | (1937–1987) | American Olympic athlete; founded the Gay Games | |
| Robert Wagenhoffer | (1960–1999) | American figure skater; won a silver medal at the 1982 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. | |
| Ji Wallace | (born 1977) | Australian gymnast. | |
| Michael Westphal | (1965–1991) | German tennis player. | |
| Alan Wiggins | (1958–1991) | American Major League Baseball player. |
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“...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)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“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)