- Phil Brown
Philip "Phil" Brown (born May 30, 1959 in South Shields, England) is an English former footballer, and the current manager of Hull City. As a player Brown was a dependable full back for many years - most of which was spent at Bolton Wanderers. He also played for Hartlepool and Halifax Town, playing alongside fellow Geordie Billy Ayre at both clubs and under him at the latter. They would have linked up for a third time at Blackpool, …
- Billy Davies
William McIntosh "Billy" Davies (born 31 May 1964 in Glasgow) is a former Scottish professional football player and is currently the team manager of Derby County having been appointed on 2nd June, 2006 after departure from Preston North End.
- Brian Clough
Brian Howard Clough, OBE (21 March, 1935 – 20 September, 2004) was a successful footballer and subsequently football manager, most notable for his success with Derby County and Nottingham Forest.
- Stephen Pearson
Stephen Paul Pearson (born October 2, 1982 in Lanark) is a Scottish footballer, currently playing for Premier League team Derby County. As a boy, Pearson attended the renowned Our Lady's High School in Motherwell and is one of the school's numerous famous footballing alumni, a list which includes such luminaries as Sir Matt Busby, Billy McNeill, and Bobby Murdoch. Like most of his fellow pupils, he grew-up an ardent Celtic supporter, …
- Anthony Gardner
Anthony Gardner is an English football player who currently plays for Tottenham Hotspur as a defender. Gardner started his career with Port Vale, where he scored 4 goals in 45 matches in all competitions, débuting in October of the 1998-99 season. Gardner signed for Tottenham Hotspur in January 2000 as a pre-emptive replacement for Sol Campbell where he worked his way up through the reserves before making his début as a substitute against Derby County in March 2001, …
- Michael Johnson
Michael Owen Johnson born (July 4, 1973 in Nottingham, England) is a Jamaican footballer currently playing at Derby County. Although born in England, he is a full Jamaican international and has played several times for the Jamaican national team. Previous clubs include Notts County and Birmingham City, where he played in the 2001 League Cup final against Liverpool. He joined Derby in August 2003 after playing 1 season in the Premiership with Birmingham.
- Giles Barnes
Giles Gordon Barnes (born August 5 1988 in Barking, England) is an English footballer. He signed for Derby County in August 2005 as a trainee and became a regular first-team choice in midfield. Barnes made his debut late in the 2005/2006 season, whilst Derby were under the guide of Terry Westley. He was in and out of the side before scoring his first goal, a fine strike against watford During pre-season, only weeks before the beginning of the 2006/2007 season, …
- Peter Taylor
Peter Thomas Taylor, (July 2 1928 - October 4 1990), was an English football goalkeeper who played for Port Vale, Coventry City, Middlesbrough and Nottingham Forest. More notably, he was a very successful coach at Derby County and Forest alongside Brian Clough. It was as a reserve goalkeeper at Middlesbrough that he first met Clough (and it was he who spotted Clough's potential as a forward and helped him break into the first team).
- Robert Earnshaw
Robert Earnshaw (born April 6, 1981) is a Zambian-born Welsh international football player. He is a striker presently playing for Derby County.
- Darren Moore
Darren Moore (born April 22 1974 in Birmingham, England) is a professional footballer. He currently plays for Derby County. He is 6'3" tall and weighs 15 stone (210 lbs/95.25 kg). He has played at international level for Jamaica, for whom he qualifies through parentage.
- Tom Huddlestone
Thomas Huddlestone is a professional English football player for Tottenham Hotspur. He can play either in defence or midfield, with the latter being the position considered his best. The North London club acquired his services from Derby County in July 2005 for an initial fee of £600,000 with possible add-ons taking the fee to around £2M, rumoured to be around £2.5 million.
- Steve Howard
Steven John "Steve" Howard (born May 10 1976, Durham, England) is an English footballer currently playing for Derby County
- Stephen Bywater
Stephen Michael Bywater, (born June 7 1981 in Manchester), is an English football player who plays as a goalkeeper for Derby County.
- Lee Carsley
Lee Carsley is a professional football player for Everton, and who represents the Republic of Ireland internationally (his grandmother is from Dunmanway, Co.Cork). He was acquired by the Merseyside club for £1,950,000 from Coventry City in 2002. Prior to playing for Coventry, Carsley also played at Blackburn Rovers (top scorer for the club in 1999/2000) and Derby County. Carsley enjoyed mixed fortunes during his first two seasons at the club, …
- Fabrizio Ravanelli
Fabrizio Ravanelli (born December 11, 1968) is a former Italian football player. Ravanelli was born in Perugia. He has played with a dozen European teams, among them Perugia, Juventus, Lazio, Marseille, Middlesbrough and Derby County, as well as getting 22 caps with the Italian national team. Known as the "White Feather" in recognition of his prematurely whitened hair, he was one of Europe's top goalscorers in the late 1990s.
- David Jones
David Frank Lloyd Jones (born November 4, 1984 in Southport, England) is an English footballer with Welsh dual nationality who plays for Derby County in the FA Premier League. A predominantly left-footed central midfielder, Jonah (as he is nicknamed by team-mates and fans) is best described as a box-to-box midfielder, equally adept at breaking up opposition attacks or creating and participating in those of his own team. He is 5'11" tall and weighs 10 stones 0 pounds.
- Craig Fagan
Craig Anthony Fagan (born December 11, 1982) is a professional footballer currently playing for Derby County in England's Premier League. His preferred position is striker, but he can also play on the right wing. Fagan's career began at his hometown club, Birmingham City, from whom he moved to Colchester United on a free transfer in 2004, after a successful loan spell.
- Tyrone Mears
Tyrone Mears (born February 18, 1983 in Stockport, England) is a professional English football player who currently plays as a right-back for Derby County. He attended North Chadderton School for his secondary school education.
- Andy Todd
Andrew John James "Andy" Todd (born September 21, 1974 in Derby, England) is an English football player who currently plays for Derby County. He is a central defender who can also play as a defensive midfielder, and he is the son of former Derby County and England defender Colin Todd who was manager of Middlesbrough when Andy made his debut. Todd's strengths are his ability to read the game, strength in the tackle and good passing ability out of defence.
- Arturo Lupoli
Arturo Lupoli (born 24 June 1987 in Brescia, Italy) is an Italian footballer who plays as a forward, currently for Fiorentina. His former clubs include Parma, Arsenal and Derby County, where he spent the 2006-07 season on loan.
- Claude Davis
Claude Davis (born March 6, 1979 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a footballer, who plays for Derby County in the Premier League.
- Dean Leacock
Dean Graham Leacock (born June 10, 1984 in Croydon) is an English footballer who currently plays for Derby County. He went to Ashburton Community School in Croydon where he was coached by Peter Yates. He plays primarily as a centreback, and is of Barbadian descent. Leacock made his professional debut as an eighteen year old for Fulham in a Worthington Cup defeat against Wigan Athletic. Leacock is an England international at Under-19 level.
- Steve Bloomer
Steve Bloomer (born January 20 1874, Cradley, Worcestershire; died April 16 1938, Derby) was an English footballer and manager who played for Derby County, Middlesbrough and England before the First World War. Bloomer remains a legend at Derby County and the club anthem, Steve Bloomer's Watchin', is played before every home game. During his career Bloomer was a prolific goalscorer for both club and country.
- Gary Teale
Gary Teale (born July 21 1978 in Glasgow) is a Scottish footballer who currently plays for Derby County as a winger. Gary was educated at Cleveden Secondary School before his footballing career. He began his career at Clydebank in 1996, followed by a three year spell at Ayr United. It was at Wigan Athletic, however, that he settled in, picking up a league winners medal for the 2002/03 Second Division, …
- Kevin Lisbie
Kevin Anthony Lisbie (born October 17, 1978 in Hackney, London) is an English-Jamaican football player. He made his professional debut for Charlton Athletic during the 1996-97 season and has played for them for his entire professional career, aside from a few loan spells. He has also represented the Jamaican national team. A prodigiously talented youngster who won many plaudits, he has never maintained form in the top two tiers of the English professional game.
- Martin Taylor
Martin Taylor (born 9 December 1966) is a former goalkeeper for Derby County. A one-time apprentice coal miner, Taylor was signed from Mile Oak Rovers as understudy to Peter Shilton. After several short-term loan deals at lower-league clubs he became the Rams number one between the posts but suffered a double leg break in a game vs Southend United. Taylor missed the promotion season to the Premiership and lost his place to Russell Hoult and Mart Poom.
- Lewin Nyatanga
Lewin John Nyatanga (born August 18 1988 in Burton upon Trent, England) is an English born Welsh football defender who plays for Wales at international level. He currently plays for Derby County in the English Premiership. Nyatanga qualifies for Wales through parentage, having been born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England, to a Zimbabwean father and Welsh mother. His first team was Littleover Dazzlers, for whom he played as a youngster.
- Paul Simpson
Paul David Simpson (born 26 July 1966) is the current manager of Football League Championship team Preston North End, having been named as the successor to the departing Billy Davies on June 16, 2006. Simpson managed Carlisle United football club to the Football League Two Championship in the 2005/2006 season, a second successive promotion following Carlisle's promotion from the Nationwide Conference in 2004/2005.
- Lee Camp
Lee Michael John Camp (born August 22, 1984 in Derby, England) is a goalkeeper for Derby County who also plays for the England Under 21 side. He made his first appearance with Derby during the 2002-03 season, and joined Burton Albion on loan in January 2003. At the end of the same season, he went to QPR for the last few games also on loan, where he helped the club reach promotion to the old Division One. During the 2004-05 season Lee became a local hero, …
- Gary Roberts
Gary Roberts (born March 18, 1984 in Chester) is an English footballer playing for Ipswich Town. He is a former England National Game XI player. Prior to joining Stanley in February 2005, Gary played for Liverpool's Academy and five Welsh clubs in Denbigh Town, Bala Town, Ryhl, Bangor City and Welshpool Town. In 42 League of Wales appearances for Rhyl, Bangor City and Welshpool Town, Gary scored ten goals.
- Graham Poll
Graham Poll (born July 29, 1963 in Tring, Hertfordshire) is a former English football referee in the FA Premier League. With 26 years of experience, he was regarded as one of the most prominent referees in the Premiership, often taking charge of the highest profile games. His final domestic game in a career spanning 1544 matches was the Championship play-off final on May 28 2007 between Derby County and West Bromwich Albion. His last ever match, and his last in Europe, …
- Ross Wallace
Ross Wallace (born 23 May 1985 in Dundee, Scotland) is a professional footballer currently playing for Sunderland. He started is career with Celtic where he played as a left midfielder but under former Manager Gordon Strachan he played at left back for the reserves and eventually the first team. Towards the end of the 2005-06 season, new signing Mark Wilson, replaced him at the Left Back position even though it is not his natural position.
- Christian Dailly
Christian Edward Dailly (born October 23 1973 in Dundee, Scotland), is a Scottish professional football player. He currently plays for English Premiership side West Ham United and is a key player for the Scotland national team. He is a versatile player, often seen in defence or defensive midfield, but has played in most outfield positions during his career. Unlike most modern footballers he does not have an agent and negotiates deals on his own behalf.
- Danny Higginbotham
Daniel John "Danny" Higginbotham (born 29 December 1978 in Manchester, England) is an English footballer who currently captains and plays as a defender for Stoke City.
- John Gregory
John Charles Gregory (born May 11 1954 in Scunthorpe) is a former football player and the current manager of Queens Park Rangers. He has previously managed Plymouth Argyle, Portsmouth F.C., Wycombe Wanderers, Aston Villa and Derby County. As a player he was an adaptable midfielder who started his career at Northampton Town and later played for Brighton and Hove Albion, Queens Park Rangers, Derby County and Aston Villa. He won six caps for England.
- Lee Holmes
Lee Holmes (born 2 April 1987) is an English football midfielder who currently plays for Derby County. Holmes is widely tipped to play top level football in the future. He has recently returned to Derby County having completed a loan spell at Bradford City in League One. When he returned he was suffering from a stubborn ankle injury. Discovered by George Burley a former Derby County and Ipswich Town manager, …
- Leon Best
Leon Best born 19 September 1986 is an English born footballer, with Coventry City. He is a powerful, tall striker who is good at holding up the ball and whose pace makes him a major threat on the break. As a young player, Leon started his career at Notts County before being signed as a trainee by then Premiership club Southampton. He made his professional debut against Newcastle on his 18th birthday in 2004. A loan spell at Q.P.R. followed later in the 2004-05 season.
- Deon Burton
Deon Burton (born 25 October 1976 in Reading, England) is a British-Jamaican football striker who currently plays for Sheffield Wednesday.
- Marc Edworthy
Marc Edworthy is an English professional footballer who started off playing for Bideford but is currently playing for Derby County. Edworthy, a defender, began his career with Plymouth Argyle in 1991-1992 season. He played four seasons with the Pilgrims experiencing the lows of relegation and the heights of promotion. He finally left on June 9, 1995 for £350,000 to join Crystal Palace who had just been relegated from the Premiership.
- James Morrison
James Clark Morrison (born May 25, 1986 in Darlington, England) is an English footballer, currently playing for Middlesbrough. A former pupil at Hummersknott School, Morrison is a product of Middlesbrough's youth academy and played several times in the 2004/05 season. His ability to run with the ball at pace makes him an effective option through the middle, as an attacking midfielder, or more often as a right winger.