List of Famous Sportspersons
Joey Cora
José Manuel Cora Amaro is a former Major League Baseball player with an 11-year career in MLB spanning the years 1987 and 1989–1998. He played for the San Diego Padres of the National League and the Chicago White Sox, Seattle Mariners and Cleveland Indians of the American League. He primarily played as a second baseman.
Vincent Gigante
Vincent Louis Gigante, also known as "the Chin", was an American mobster who was boss of the Genovese crime family from 1981 to 2005 in New York City. Gigante started out as a professional boxer who fought in 25 matches between 1944 and 1947. He then started working as a Mafia enforcer for what was then the Luciano crime family, forerunner of the Genovese family. Gigante was one of five brothers; three of them, Mario, Pasquale, and Ralph, followed him into the Mafia. Only one brother, Louis, stayed out of the crime family, instead becoming a priest. Gigante was the shooter in the failed assassination of longtime Luciano boss Frank Costello in 1957. In 1959, he was sentenced to seven years in prison for drug trafficking, and after sharing a prison cell with Costello's rival, Vito Genovese, Gigante became a caporegime overseeing his own crew of Genovese soldiers and associates who operated out of Greenwich Village.
Brett Rypien
Brett Rypien is an American football quarterback for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Boise State and signed with the Broncos as an undrafted free agent in 2019. He is the nephew of Super Bowl XXVI MVP quarterback Mark Rypien.
Quade Cooper
Quade Santini Cooper is a professional rugby union player and occasional boxer. Although a New Zealand citizen, he has represented Australia in rugby at international level. He is a former player for the Queensland Reds and the Melbourne Rebels in the Super Rugby competition in Australia. His preferred position is fly-half.
Paul Stastny
Paul Stastny is a Canadian-born American professional ice hockey centre currently playing in his second tenure with the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has previously played for the Colorado Avalanche, St. Louis Blues and Vegas Golden Knights.
Connor Wickham
Connor Neil Ralph Wickham is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Crystal Palace.
Evan Longoria
Evan Michael Longoria, nicknamed Longo, is an American professional baseball third baseman for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played in MLB for the Tampa Bay Rays from 2008 through 2017.
Paul Jubb
Paul Jubb is a British tennis player. Jubb has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles ranking of 427, which he achieved on 22 July 2019. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 1430 achieved on 30 July 2018. Jubb made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2019 Wimbledon Championships after receiving a wildcard for the singles main draw. He made his ATP Tour debut at the 2019 Eastbourne International by winning two qualifying matches, before losing in the first round to Taylor Fritz. Jubb won the singles title at the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championship as a member of the South Carolina Gamecocks.
Marquinhos
Marcos Aoás Corrêa, commonly known as Marquinhos, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain, whom he captains, and the Brazil national team. Mainly a central defender, he can also play as a right-back or a defensive midfielder.
Jessica Pegula
Jessica Pegula is an American professional tennis player.