Sports
- C. W. Alcock, creator of the FA Cup
- Richard Attwood, F1 racing driving
- Edward Baily
- John Barham, Athlete
- Morton Betts, 19th Century sportsman
- Guy Butler (athlete), Olympic gold medalist
- Major Allan Cameron (soldier), Founder of the International Curling Federation
- Nick Compton, Cricketer
- Michael Doughty (English footballer)
- Tom French, rugby footballer of London Wasps
- Spencer Gore, tennis player, first Wimbledon champion
- Douglas Robert Hadow, died on Matterhorn first ascent
- Patrick Francis Hadow, tennis player, Wimbledon champion
- Edward Harrison, cricketer and squash doubles champion
- Sir William Hart Dyke, 7th Baronet, Racquets World Champion 1862
- Arthur Haygarth, cricketer
- Damian Hopley, Chief Executive of Professional Rugby Players' Association
- A. N. Hornby, Only one of two men to have captained England at cricket and rugby
- David Ireland, equestrian and horse breeding expert
- Charles Leaf, Olympic gold medallist
- Douglas Lowe, Olympic gold medallist
- Alastair McCorquodale, Olympic silver medallist
- Archie MacLaren, cricketer
- John McCririck, racing commentator
- Sir Rupert Mackeson, racing author
- Charles Morice (footballer), played for England as a forward in the first international match against Scotland.
- Tony Nash (bobsleigh), Olympic gold medallist
- Sam Northeast, cricketer
- Walter Paton (1853–1937), English barrister who played for Oxford University in the 1873 FA Cup Final
- Gareth Rees (rugby player), Canadian fly-half
- Sir Lancelot Royle KBE, Olympian & businessman, Governor of Harrow School
- Fraser Waters, member of the London Wasps rugby union team
- Reginald de Courtenay Welch, England international footballer
- Dorian Williams, Equestian broadcaster
- Julian Wilson, racing commentator
- George Whatford, cricketer and British and Indian Army officer
- Major Hugh Wyld, cricketer and British Army officer
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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)
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)