List of Famous Sportspersons

Alexandre Clément is a French former professional footballer who played as a defender. He was most recently the manager of Le Mans, a post he held from 2014 to 2015.

Sean Peter Hessey is an English football manager and former professional footballer who played as a defender.

Milton Queiroz da Paixão, simply known as Tita, is a Brazilian former association footballer who played as a forward. He played for the Brazilian national team and played for several Campeonato Brasileiro Série A clubs. After retiring, he started a managerial career.

Eric Van Meir is a former Belgian football defender, and until March 2017 was the head coach of Lierse playing in the Belgian First Division B. His former clubs include Lierse, Charleroi and Standard Liège. Van Meir also played for Belgium and was in the squad for the 1994, 1998 and 2002 World Cups and also for the Euro 2000 but played only a few matches.

Stefano Colantuono is an Italian football professional football manager and former player, who played as a defender. He most recently served as the head coach of Serie B club Salernitana.

Bernard René Michel Casoni is a French football manager and former professional player who played as a defender. In his playing career he played for Olympique Marseille and France at Euro 1992. He is the manager of MC Oran.

Sergei Sergeevich Bubka is a Ukrainian former professional tennis player. He was a member of the Ukraine Davis Cup team and was coached by Tibor Toth, who is also the former coach of Sergiy Stakhovsky. Bubka is the son of pole vaulter Sergey Bubka.

Alexia Dechaume-Balleret is a former professional tennis player from France.

Pentti Olavi Hämäläinen was a Finnish boxer. He competed at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and won a gold and a bronze medal, respectively. He won two more bronze medals at European championships in 1951 and 1955. Domestically he won six Finnish titles between 1951 and 1956, two in flyweight, two in bantamweight and two in featherweight division. After the 1956 Olympics he turned professional and won five consecutive bouts. He lost his sixth bout in 1959 and retired from boxing, after which he worked as a mechanic and a policeman. Four of his brothers also competed in boxing at the national level.

Mikalay Mikalayevich Branfilaw is a Belarusian football coach and former player.