Sport
| Name | Place | Life | Comments | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Bairstow | Born in Bradford, Yorkshire | 1951 – January 1998 | cricketer | |
| Geoffrey Boycott | Born in Fitzwilliam | 1940– | Yorkshire CCC and England Cricketer | |
| Alistair Brownlee | Born in Dewsbury | 1988 - | Olympic gold medalist, world champion in triathlon | |
| Jonathan Brownlee | Born in Leeds | 1990 - | Olympic bronze medalist, world champion in triathlon | |
| Brian Clough | Born in Middlesbrough | 1935–2004 | footballer and football manager | |
| Jessica Ennis | Born in Sheffield | 1986 – | Olympic gold medalist, world champion in heptathlon | |
| Leonard Hutton | 1916–90 | cricketer, Ashes-winning captain | ||
| Alan Hinkes | 1954– | mountaineer, first Briton to climb world's highest 14 peaks | ||
| Kevin Keegan | 1951– | footballer, 2 x European footballer of the year | ||
| Jamie Reeves | Born in Sheffield | 1962- | world champion strength athlete, World's Strongest Man of '89 | |
| Jane Tomlinson | 1964–2007 | amateur athlete and cancer charity fundraiser | ||
| Fred Trueman | 1931 – July 2006 | cricketer |
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“I wish glib and indiscriminate critics of industrialists had some conception of the problems that have to be met by factory management.... General condemnation of employers is a favorite indoor sport of the uninformed intelligentsia who assume the role of lance- bearers for labor.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain,
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer’s lingering blooms delayed,
Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,
Seats of my youth, when every sport could please,
How often have I loitered o’er the green,
Where humble happiness endeared each scene.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)