List of Old Brightonians - Sport

Sport

  • Tom Campbell Black (1899–1936), aviator, joint winner London-Melbourne Centenary Air Race 1934, awarded Britannia Trophy 1934
  • Holly Colvin (born 1989), England cricketer
  • George Huth Cotterill (1868–1950), England footballer, Corinthian 1886–98, Cambridge football blue 1888–91, played cricket for Sussex 1886–90
  • Clare Connor (born 1976), England female cricket captain
  • Joe Gatting (born 1987), former footballer for Brighton and Hove Albion, current cricketer for Sussex
  • Leslie Gay (1871–1949), England footballer, England cricketer 1894–95, Cambridge blue, Hampshire and Somerset
  • Leslie Godfree (?–?), tennis player, won Mens Doubles at Wimbledon 1923 and Mixed Doubles 1926 (finalist 1924 & 1927)
  • Duncan Hamilton (1920–1994), racing driver
  • John Hart (born c.1982), Wasps rugby union player
  • Geoffrey Hett, (1909–88), fencer, Captain Cambridge University Fencing 1930, British Foil Team 1936 Olympics, author of a standard work on Fencing
  • Carl Hopkinson (born 1981), cricketer
  • Bazid Khan (born 1981), Pakistan cricketer
  • Alex King (born 1975), Wasps and England rugby union player
  • 'Hopper' Levett (1908–1995), England, Kent and MCC cricketer (wicket keeper)
  • Matt Machan (born 1991), Sussex cricketer
  • Denzil Roberts Onslow (1839–1908), played cricket for Cambridge University, Sussex and MCC, Conservative MP for Guildford 1874–85
  • Jonathan Palmer (born 1956), racing driver
  • Ollie Phillips (born 1982), Newcastle Falcons rugby union player
  • Matthew Prior (born 1982), England cricketer
  • George Colin Ratsey (1906–1984), sailmaker and sailor, silver medal 2-man Star class 1932 Olympics, Prince of Wales Cup winner (14 ft dinghies) 1939, Prince Philip Cup winner (Dragon class) 1959, in the crew for two British attempts at the America's Cup 1934 and 1958
  • Major Ritchie (1870–1955), tennis player, gold medal mens singles 1906 Olympics, silver medal mens doubles 1906 Olympics, bronze medal mens indoor singles 1906 Olympics, Wimbledon doubles champion 1906 and 1910, Irish singles champion 1907, German singles champion 1903–06 and 1910, British Davis Cup team 1910
  • Henry Soames (1843–1913) Hampshire cricketer, son of the Brighton College founder William Aldwin Soames
  • Kelvin Tatum (born 1964), British speedway captain
  • Sarah Jane Taylor (born 1989), England cricketer
  • Claude Wilson (1858–1881), England footballer
  • Sammy Woods (1867–1931), Somerset cricketer, played cricket for both Australia and England; and England rugby player and captain
  • Jordan Turner-Hall (born c.1988), Harlequins rugby union player
  • Ollie Richards (born 1992), Leeds Carnegie and England rugby union player

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