List of Famous Sportspersons
Tevin Farmer
Tevin Farmer is an American professional boxer who held the IBF super featherweight title from 2018 to January 2020. Farmer, who is right handed but fights in a southpaw stance, is known for his old school style and slick defensive skills.
Jay Bruce
Jay Allen Bruce is an American professional baseball corner outfielder who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, Cleveland Indians, Seattle Mariners, and Philadelphia Phillies. The Reds drafted Bruce in the first round, 12th overall pick, of the 2005 Major League Baseball draft; he made his MLB debut in 2008. Bruce has been named an All-Star three times during his career, and has won the Silver Slugger Award twice.
Ken Whisenhunt
Kenneth Moore Whisenhunt is an American football coach and former tight end. He played college football at Georgia Tech and was drafted in the twelfth round of the 1985 NFL Draft by the Atlanta Falcons, with whom he played for four years. He subsequently played two more years with the Washington Redskins and another two with the New York Jets.
LaTroy Hawkins
LaTroy Hawkins is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher. In his 21-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he played for the Minnesota Twins, Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants, Baltimore Orioles, Colorado Rockies, New York Yankees, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, New York Mets, and Toronto Blue Jays. Through the 2020 season, his 1,042 games pitched were the 10th-most of any major league player.
Cédric Bakambu
Cédric Bakambu is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Chinese Super League club Beijing Guoan and the DR Congo national team.
Jon Bostic
Jonathan Earl Bostic II is an American football linebacker for the Washington Football Team of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Florida and was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the second round of the 2013 NFL Draft. He has also played for the New England Patriots, Detroit Lions, Indianapolis Colts, and Pittsburgh Steelers.
Nancy Lieberman
Nancy Elizabeth Lieberman, nicknamed "Lady Magic", is an American former professional basketball player and coach in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) who is currently a broadcaster for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA) as well as the head coach of Power, a team in the BIG3 which she led to its 2018 Championship. Lieberman is regarded as one of the greatest figures in American women's basketball.
Khalid Yafai
Khalid "Kal" Yafai is a British professional boxer who held the WBA super-flyweight title from 2016 to 2020. As an amateur, he represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal at the 2010 European Championships as a flyweight. As of January 2021, he is ranked as the world's fourth best active super-flyweight by The Ring magazine and the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, and sixth by BoxRec.
Oscar Schmidt
Oscar Daniel Bezerra Schmidt is a retired Brazilian professional basketball player. He is also commonly known as Oscar Schmidt in Spain, where he played for Fórum Valladolid for the 1993–94 and 1994–95 seasons, and simply Oscar, or Mão Santa, in his homeland. Schmidt primarily played at the small forward position, was 2.05 m tall and weighed 110 kg (243 lbs). He was born in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
Kevin Curren
Kevin Melvyn Curren is a South African former professional tennis player. He played in two Grand Slam singles finals and won four Grand Slam doubles titles, reaching a career-high singles ranking of world No. 5.