List of Famous Sportspersons

Lee Marc Tomlin is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Championship club Cardiff City.

Stuart Alistair Holden is an American retired professional soccer player who played as a midfielder, and is currently a lead TV game analyst for Fox Sports. Holden is part of the ownership group for Spanish La Liga soccer club, RCD Mallorca.

Nélson de Jesus Silva, better known simply as Dida, is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. After starting his senior club career in Brazil in the early 1990s with Vitória, Dida became a penalty kick-saving specialist with Cruzeiro and Corinthians. He is perhaps best remembered for his successful and often tumultuous ten-year stint with Milan from 2000 to 2010, where he established himself as one of the world's best goalkeepers and won multiple trophies and individual awards with the club, but became equally known for his propensity for errors as well as his excellent gameplay, while he gained media attention in 2005 for being hit by a lit flare during a match against crosstown rivals Internazionale.

Sofiane Boufal is a professional footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder for Ligue 1 club Angers SCO and the Morocco national team.

Nicolás Alejandro Massú Fried, nicknamed El Vampiro, is a Chilean retired tennis player, a former world No. 9 in singles and winner of two Olympic gold medals. He is the only male player to have won both the singles and doubles gold medals during the same games in modern Olympic tennis, the only two gold medals Chile has won at the Olympics. Massú also reached the final of the 2003 Madrid Masters and won six singles titles. Now, he is the coach of the world top Austrian Tennis Player Dominic Thiem.

Yuta Watanabe is a Japanese professional basketball player for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Raptors 905 of the NBA G League. He played college basketball in the United States for the George Washington Colonials after becoming the first Japan-born student athlete to secure an NCAA Division I basketball scholarship. He was named the Atlantic 10 Conference's defensive player of the year in 2018. He has also represented Japan internationally and helped the team win the bronze medal at the 2013 East Asia Basketball Championship.

Jorge Rafael Posada Villeta is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball catcher who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees. Posada recorded a .273 batting average, 275 home runs, and 1,065 runs batted in (RBIs) during his career. A switch hitter, Posada was a five-time All-Star, won five Silver Slugger Awards, and was on the roster for four World Series championship teams.

Kevin Wimmer is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a centre back for 2. Bundesliga club Karlsruher SC, on loan from Stoke City, and the Austria national team.

Francis Stanley Kaminsky III is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Wisconsin Badgers, where he set the Wisconsin single-game record for points (43). He was the unanimous men's National College Player of the Year in 2015.

Richard Fremont Dauer is an American baseball former infielder and coach in Major League Baseball (MLB). He spent his entire 10-year MLB playing career with the Baltimore Orioles, winning the 1983 World Series. He was primarily a second baseman, but also played third base. Following his career as a player, he spent 19 seasons as an MLB coach for numerous teams, winning the World Series in 2017 as the first base coach for the Houston Astros.