List of Famous Sportspersons
Curtis Conway
Curtis Lamont Conway is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the first round of the 1993 NFL Draft out of the University of Southern California (USC). Conway also played for the San Diego Chargers, New York Jets and San Francisco 49ers.
Ramires
Ramires Santos do Nascimento, known as Ramires, is a Brazilian professional footballer. A midfielder, he is comfortable playing in either the centre or right midfielder position. He normally plays as a box-to-box midfielder role because of his energy in supporting defensive and attacking play.
Ryan Russell
Ryan Kamey Russell is an American football defensive end who is currently a free agent. He played college football at Purdue on a football scholarship. He played with the Dallas Cowboys for the 2015 season; the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the 2016 and 2017 seasons; and was signed by the Buffalo Bills for the 2018 season before the team trimmed their roster to meet league regulations.
Oli McBurnie
Oliver Robert McBurnie is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Sheffield United and the Scotland national team.
Chris Barker
Christopher Andrew Barker was an English professional footballer who played as a defender. He represented Alfreton Town, Barnsley, Cardiff City, Stoke City, Colchester United, Queens Park Rangers, Plymouth Argyle and Southend United, and he was player-manager of Aldershot Town for three months in 2015. His brother, Richie, is also a professional footballer.
Larry Brown
Lawrence Harvey Brown is an American former basketball coach and player who was most recently the head coach for Auxilium Torino of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and EuroCup Basketball. Brown is the only coach in basketball history to win both an NCAA national championship and an NBA title. He has a 1,275-965 lifetime professional coaching record in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) and is the only coach in NBA history to lead eight teams to the playoffs. He also won an ABA championship as a player with the Oakland Oaks in the 1968–69 season, and an Olympic Gold Medal in 1964. He is also the only person ever to coach two NBA franchises in the same season. Before coaching, Brown played collegiately at the University of North Carolina and professionally in the ABA.
Gustavo Kuerten
Gustavo Kuerten, nicknamed Guga, is a retired world No. 1 tennis player from Brazil. He won the French Open singles title three times, and was the Tennis Masters Cup champion in 2000. Kuerten suffered many problems with injuries which resulted in his non-attendances at many tournaments in 2002 and between 2004 and 2008. After two hip surgeries and a few failed attempted comebacks, he retired from top-level tennis in May 2008. During his career he won 20 singles and 8 doubles titles.He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2012. In 2016, he was asked to be the torch bearer for the Rio Olympics.
Luke Saville
Luke Saville is an Australian professional tennis player. As a junior, Saville enjoyed a successful career in which he won two junior grand slam singles titles at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships and 2012 Australian Open respectively. Saville is also a former junior World No. 1 and an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. In January 2013, he competed in his first ATP main draw event at the 2013 Australian Open, but has struggled in transitioning from Juniors onto the professional circuit, reaching a highest singles ranking of only 152. However he has had greater success as a doubles player where he has reached his highest ranking of 37 in February 2020.
David Unsworth
David Gerald Unsworth is an English former professional footballer who was most recently caretaker manager of Everton. As a player, Unsworth played as a centre-back or left-back from 1991 until 2009.
Christian Fuchs
Christian Fuchs is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a left back for Premier League club Leicester City.