List of Famous Sportspersons
Jason Denayer
Jason Grégory Marianne Denayer is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for French club Lyon and the Belgium national side.
Trey Flowers
Robert Lee "Trey" Flowers III is an American football defensive end for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Arkansas.
Chris Hughton
Christopher William Gerard Hughton is a former professional footballer and football manager who is currently manager of Nottingham Forest. Born in England, he represented the Republic of Ireland national team and in 1979, he became the first mixed race player to represent the nation.
Ainsley Maitland-Niles
Ainsley Cory Maitland-Niles is an English professional footballer who plays for West Bromwich Albion, on loan from Premier League club Arsenal and the England national team. Mainly playing as a right-back or central midfielder, Maitland-Niles can also be deployed as a left wing-back.
Jonathan Papelbon
Jonathan Robert Papelbon is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher. He played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), most notably for the Boston Red Sox, with whom he was an All-Star in four consecutive seasons, won the 2007 Delivery Man Award, and was a 2007 World Series champion. The Red Sox drafted him in the 4th round of the 2003 Major League Baseball Draft, and he played three seasons of minor league baseball before breaking into the majors. He also played for the Philadelphia Phillies from 2012 to 2015, and the Washington Nationals from 2015 to 2016.
Khris Middleton
James Khristian Middleton is an American professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He attended high school at the Porter-Gaud School in Charleston, South Carolina. As a junior and senior, he was named South Carolina Player of the Year, and was a McDonald's All-American nominee. After being recruited by Scott Spinelli, he went on to play college basketball for Texas A&M University, where he started the majority of the games in his freshman year. In his sophomore season, he earned second-team All-Big 12 honors after leading the Aggies in scoring with 14.3 points per game. Middleton was selected by the Detroit Pistons with the 39th overall pick of the 2012 NBA draft. He received his first All-Star selection in 2019.
Tímea Babos
Tímea Babos is a Hungarian professional tennis player. She has a career-high Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking of No. 25 in the world. She gained world No.1 in the doubles rankings, becoming the first Hungarian player to reach the top of the WTA rankings in either singles or doubles. She has won three singles and 24 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as one singles and one doubles WTA 125K series title, and 12 singles and nine doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
Louis Riddick
Louis Angelo Riddick is an American football broadcaster and former safety who played in the NFL from 1991 to 1998. His brother, Robb Riddick, was a running back with the Buffalo Bills for eight seasons. His cousins, Will Lewis and Tim Lewis, also played in the NFL and currently hold management positions for professional football teams. He is currently an analyst for ESPN on Monday Night Football alongside Steve Levy and Brian Griese.
Teófimo López
Teófimo Andrés López Rivera is an American professional boxer. He is the current unified lightweight world champion, having held the IBF title since 2019 and the WBA (Super), WBO and Ring magazine titles since defeating Vasyl Lomachenko in 2020. As an amateur he represented Honduras at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Neco Williams
Neco Shay Williams is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a right back for Premier League club Liverpool and the Wales national team.