Sports
- Sebastián Abreu "El Loco Abreu", football player, member of national team
- Jose Andrade, former football player and member of the 1930 FIFA World Cup-winning team.
- Julio César Benítez Amodeo, Uruguayan football player, played 7 seasons in Barcelona FC from 1961 to his sudden death in 1968
- Esteban Batista, first Uruguayan to play in the NBA
- José María Flores Burlón, boxer
- Alfredo Evangelista, boxer
- Diego Forlán, football player, member of national team and Internazionale (Italy).
- Alcides Ghiggia, former football player, member of the 1950 FIFA World Cup-winning team.
- Diego Godín, football player, member of national team and team Atlético de Madrid (Spain)
- John Harley, played with C.U.R.C.C./Peñarol from 1909 until his retirement from football in 1920.
- Marcelo Lipatin, football player, forward (C.D. Trofense)
- Diego Lugano, football player, member of national team
- Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, former football player.
- Oscar Moglia, Olympic medal winning basketball player
- Paolo Montero, former football player, member of the national team.
- Fernando Muslera, football player, member of national team.
- Jose Nasazzi, former football player, captain of the 1930 FIFA World Cup-winning team.
- Alvaro Recoba, football player. member of the national team.
- Pedro Rocha, former football player, member of the national team.
- Juan Schiaffino, former football player, member of the 1950 FIFA World Cup-winning team.
- Luis Suárez, football player, member of national team and Liverpool Football Club.
- Milton Wynants, Olympic Silver Medal winning cyclist
- Enzo Francescoli, former football player, member of national team
- Edinson Cavani, football player, member of national team and team Napoli
- Obdulio Varela, former football player, captain of the 1950 World Cup-winning team.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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)
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)