List of Famous Sportspersons
Mattia Perin
Mattia Perin is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Genoa, on loan from Juventus, and the Italy national team.
Caroline Dolehide
Caroline Dolehide is an American professional tennis player. She achieved a career-high Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking of No. 102 in the world during the summer of 2018. Her best performance on the WTA Tour came in doubles at the 2019 US Open, where she reached the semifinals with compatriot Vania King. Dolehide has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 31 in the world. She has won 13 International Tennis Federation (ITF) titles, six in singles and seven in doubles.
Alen Halilović
Alen Halilović is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for EFL Championship club Birmingham City. As the Prva HNL's youngest ever goalscorer and the youngest ever debutant for the Croatian national team, he was considered to be one of the most promising young talents of European football.
Alfred Effiong
Alfred Effiong is a Nigeria-born Maltese footballer who plays as a forward for Maltese club Balzan.
Leander Dendoncker
Leander Dendoncker is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as either a defender or defensive midfielder for Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers and Belgium national team.
Caleb Truax
Caleb Truax is an American professional boxer. He held the IBF super middleweight title from 2017 to 2018 and challenged once for the WBA (Regular) middleweight title in 2015.
Barry McGuigan
Finbar Patrick 'Barry' McGuigan MBE is an Irish retired professional boxer and current boxing promoter. Born in Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland, McGuigan was nicknamed The Clones Cyclone and became the WBA and lineal featherweight world champion. He was very popular with Irish and British audiences, representing neutrality and peace in a time when Ireland, where he lived, was affected by The Troubles. In 2005 he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. He is also known for coaching one of the most decorated boxers from Northern Ireland, Carl Frampton, along with his son Shane McGuigan.
Michael Bentt
Michael Bentt is a British-American film and television actor, and retired professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 1994. Of Jamaican heritage, he was born in East Dulwich, London, but raised in the Cambria Heights section of Queens in New York City. Bentt won the WBO heavyweight title from Tommy Morrison in 1993, losing the title in his first defense in 1994 to Herbie Hide. As an amateur he won bronze medals at the 1986 World Championships and 1987 Pan American Games.
Martin Brodeur
Martin Pierre Brodeur is a Canadian-American former professional ice hockey goaltender and current team executive. He played 22 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), 21 of them for the New Jersey Devils, with whom he won three Stanley Cup championships and five Eastern Conference championships in 17 postseason campaigns. He also won two Olympic gold medals with Team Canada in the 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympic Games, as well as several other medals with Team Canada in other international competitions. Brodeur is widely regarded as one of the greatest goaltenders of all time. In 2017, he was named by the league as one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players", and the following year, he was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Jacquizz Rodgers
Jacquizz "Quizz" Rodgers is a former American football running back. He played college football at Oregon State, and was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the fifth round of the 2011 NFL Draft.