List of Famous Sportspersons
Heimir Hallgrímsson
Heimir Hallgrímsson is an Icelandic former football player, coach and a dentist, who is currently the head coach of the Qatar Stars League club Al-Arabi.
Craig Shakespeare
Craig Robert Shakespeare is an English football coach and former player.
Jeff Bagwell
Jeffrey Robert Bagwell is an American former professional baseball first baseman and coach who spent his entire 15-year Major League Baseball (MLB) playing career with the Houston Astros. Originally a Boston Red Sox fourth-round selection from the University of Hartford as a third baseman in the 1989 amateur draft, he was then traded to the Astros in 1990. The National League (NL) Rookie of the Year in 1991, Bagwell then won the NL Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) in 1994, was a four-time MLB All-Star, three-time Silver Slugger winner and a Gold Glove recipient. Forming a core part of Astros lineups with Craig Biggio given the epithet "Killer B's", Houston finished in first or second place in the NL Central division in 11 of 12 seasons from 1994 to 2005. They qualified for the playoffs six times, culminating in Bagwell's lone World Series appearance in 2005. He was elected to the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in 2005, and to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2017.
Luol Deng
Luol Ajou Deng is a South Sudanese-British former professional basketball player. He is the current president of South Sudan Basketball Federation. Luol is also currently serving as the coach for South Sudan Basketball men's team coach. He was a two-time NBA All-Star and was named to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team in 2012. Born in what is now South Sudan, Deng fled the country with his family as a child, eventually settling in the United Kingdom. He became a British citizen in 2006, and has played for the Great Britain national team.
Claudio Pizarro
Claudio Miguel Pizarro Bosio is a Peruvian retired professional footballer who played as a striker. Mostly playing with Bayern Munich and Werder Bremen, he scored 337 goals in 872 games in his career.
Cordarrelle Patterson
Cordarrelle Patterson, nicknamed "Flash", is an American football wide receiver and return specialist for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft. He played college football at Tennessee.
Jeremie Lynch
Jermie Dwayne Lynch is a Jamaican professional footballer who plays as a striker for the V.League 1 club Topenland Bình Định. In 2012 he made his only appearance for the Jamaica national team.
Eric Lichaj
Eric Joseph Lichaj is an American soccer player who plays for Turkish Süper Lig club Fatih Karagümrük.
Giovanni Simeone
Giovanni Pablo Simeone Baldini, also known as El Cholito, is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Cagliari and the Argentina national team. He is the eldest among three sons of former footballer and current Atlético Madrid manager Diego Simeone.
David Bakhtiari
David Afrasiab Assad Bakhtiari is an American football offensive tackle for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Colorado, and was drafted by the Packers in the fourth round of the 2013 NFL Draft.