List of Famous Sportspersons

Léodegario Santa Cruz is a Mexican professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes, including bantamweight, super bantamweight, featherweight, and super featherweight. He is the fifth Mexican boxer to become a world champion in four weight classes. He currently holds the WBA (Super) featherweight title since 2017.

Patrick Denis Marleau is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward and alternate captain for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Marleau is the all-time leader in goals, even strength goals, power play goals, points, shots, and games played for the San Jose Sharks, having spent nearly his entire NHL career with the Sharks since being drafted second overall by the franchise in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. He played his 1,700th NHL game on January 11, 2020, against the Dallas Stars. He is one of only five NHL players to play in 1,700 games, one of just five to play 1,400 with one team, and the youngest to reach both the 1,300- and 1,400-game marks. Marleau was seven games short of becoming the youngest player to play in 1,500 games with one team before signing with the Toronto Maple Leafs in 2017. After two seasons with Toronto, he returned to San Jose in 2019.

Sokratis Papastathopoulos, commonly known mononymously as Sokratis, is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Olympiacos and the Greece national team.

Mbaye Hamady Niang is a French-born Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Rennes and the Senegal national football team.

Kenneth Miller is a Scottish professional football coach and former player who is currently an assistant coach at Western Sydney Wanderers. Miller, who played as a striker, is one of only five post-war players to have played for both Rangers and Celtic. He was known as a versatile and pacy striker who was skilled with headers and could play as a supporting or centre-forward.

Tyrus Raymond Cobb, nicknamed The Georgia Peach, was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder. He was born in rural Narrows, Georgia. Cobb spent 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers, the last six as the team's player-manager, and finished his career with the Philadelphia Athletics. In 1936, Cobb received the most votes of any player on the inaugural Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, receiving 222 out of a possible 226 votes (98.2%); no other player received a higher percentage of votes until Tom Seaver in 1992. In 1999, the Sporting News ranked Ty Cobb third on their list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players".

Fe'Zahn Tremaine Edmunds is an American football linebacker for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Virginia Tech and was drafted by the Bills in the first round of the 2018 NFL Draft.

Zoltán Gera is a Hungarian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He played for Fulham, Pécsi Mecsek and Harkány SE, as well as enjoying two spells at Ferencváros and West Bromwich Albion.

Kasper Dolberg Rasmussen is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a forward for French football club Nice and the Denmark national team. Dolberg made his senior debut at Silkeborg IF in May 2015. He joined Ajax in July 2015 and made his debut for the club in July 2016. He represented Denmark at under-16, under-17, under-19 and under-21 level before making his senior international debut in November 2016.

Nazem Samir Kadri is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs seventh overall in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. He played his junior career in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), first with the Kitchener Rangers and then the London Knights. He won the J. Ross Robertson Cup with Kitchener and was part of the Rangers team that lost to the Spokane Chiefs in the final of the 2008 Memorial Cup. Kadri has also represented Canada internationally at the 2010 World Junior Championships, where the team received the silver medal after losing the final to the United States 6–5.