- William Henry
William Henry (Jun 28 1859 - Mar 20 1928) was a British swimmer and lifesaver. Henry was of Polish ancestry, and was born Joseph Nawrocki. He was a co-founder of the "Royal Life Saving Society". As a swimmer he won a number of national and European championships. In 1906, at 47, he became the oldest ever Olympic medal winner in swimming as a member of the British 4x250 meter relay team which won the Bronze medal.
- James Wilson
James Wilson (born 2 October,1891) was a British athlete who competed mainly in the 10,000 metres. He competed for Great Britain in the 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium in the 10,000 metres where he won the bronze medal. He was also part of the British team that won the silver medal in the Cross Country event, along with Frank Hegarty and Alfred Nichols.
- Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan David Edwards, CBE, (born May 10, 1966 in London, England) is a former British triple jumper and widely regarded as the finest triple jumper of all time. He is an Olympic champion and has held the world record in the event since 1995. He lives with his wife Alison in Gosforth, Tyneside and also has a flat in London.
- William Smith
William Faulder Smith (born November 14, 1886 - died March 3, 1937) was a British field hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the British field hockey team, which won the gold medal.
- George Ross
George James Ross (born December 1, 1877 - died ?) was an British gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics. As a member of the British team in 1908 he finished eighth in the team competition. He was part of the British team, which won the bronze medal in the gymnastics men's team, european system event in 1912.
- John Walker
John Drummond Walker (born January 4, 1891 - died July 22, 1952) was a British rower who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was the coxswain of the British boat, which won the silver medal in the eights.
- Jack London
John Edward "Jack" London (born January 13, 1905 - died May 2, 1966) was a British athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. He competed for Great Britain in the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands in the 100 metres where he won the silver medal. He then ran in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Cyril Gill, Teddy Smouha and Walter Rangeley.
- Tim Henman
Timothy Henry Henman OBE (born 6 September 1974 in Oxford) is an English tennis player. He is the first player from the United Kingdom since Roger Taylor in the 1970s to reach the semi-finals of the Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship. Having reached 6 grand slam semis and been ranked number 4 in the world he is Britain's most successful open era player. Nevertheless, he has been criticised by some for not winning a Grand Slam event and for refusing to retire.
- Henry Thomas
A. Henry Thomas (born 1889) was a British bantamweight professional boxer who won gold in Boxing at the 1908 Summer Olympics. <br> <br>
- Ben Ainslie
Ben Ainslie, MBE, (born 5 February 1977 in Macclesfield) is a British sailor and two-times Olympic gold medalist. He started sailing at the age of 4 and first competed at the age of 10. Ainslie's first International competition was the Optimist (dinghy) 1989 World Championship's held in Japan where he placed 37th. The son of Roderick 'Roddy' Ainslie, who captained a boat that took part in the first Whitbread Round The World Race in 1973, …
- William White
William Neil White (born May 2, 1920 - died February 19, 1990) was a British field hockey player who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the British field hockey team, which won the silver medal. He played four matches including the final as forward.
- David Jones
David Jones (born 11 March,1940) was a British athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. He competed for Great Britain in the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Peter Radford, David Segal and Neville Whitehead.
- Patrick Leahy
Patrick Joseph "Pat" Leahy (20 May 1877 - 1926) was an Irish athlete who won Olympic medals (for Great Britain and Ireland) in the high jump and long jump at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Leahy was born in Cregane, Charleville, County Limerick on the border between County Limerick and County Cork. He was one of seven brothers all of whom were sportsmen. His brother Con won medals in jumping at two Olympic Games. Another brother, Timothy, also jumped competitively.
- John Jacob Astor
John Jacob Astor (born May 20, 1886 - died July 19, 1971) was a British rackets player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal in the men's doubles competition together with Vane Pennell. In the men's singles event he won the bronze medal.
- Bradley Wiggins
Bradley Wiggins, OBE (born April 28, 1980) is an English professional track and road bicycle racer. He won three medals on the track at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The son of a professional cyclist, Gary Wiggins, Bradley Wiggins was born in Ghent, Belgium but grew up in Maida Vale, London. Following in his father's footsteps, he started cycling at an early age, racing at south London's Herne Hill Velodrome aged 12. At the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics, …
- Chris Hoy
Chris Hoy (born March 23, 1976 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish track cyclist and Olympic Games gold and silver medal winner. Prior to taking up track cycling, Hoy had raced BMX and competed at rowing for the Scottish junior team winning Silver in the 1993 British Championships with Grant Florence in the Coxless Pairs. Hoy went to school at George Watson's College, an independent school in Edinburgh. He continued his studies at the University of St Andrews in 1996, …
- John Daly
John James Daly (born 22 February,1880) was a British athlete who competed mainly in the 2590 metre steeple chase. He competed for Great Britain in the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St Louis, United States in the 2590 metre steeple chase where he won the Silver medal.
- John Cooper
John Cooper (18 December,1940-3 March, 1974) was a British athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metre hurdles. He competed for Great Britain in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan in the 400 metre hurdles where he won the silver medal. He then joined with team mates Timothy Graham, Adrian Metcalfe, and Robbie Brightwell in the 4 x 400 metres relay where they won the silver medal. John Cooper was killed in the Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crash outside of Paris, …
- William Parker
William Lorenzo Parker (born January 9, 1889 - died October 27, 1971) was a British rower who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was a crew member of the British boat, which won the silver medal in the eights.
- William Robinson
William Walker Robinson (born June 23, 1870 - died ?) was a British breaststroke swimmer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. In the 1908 Olympics he won a silver medal in the 200 metre breaststroke.
- John Bennett
John Hadfield Bennett (born August 11, 1885 - died May 25, 1973) was a British field hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the British field hockey team, which won the gold medal.
- Steve Williams
Steve Williams MBE (born April 15, 1976 in Warwick) is an English rower and Olympic champion. Williams started rowing aged 13 while at Monkton Combe School, Bath, and attended Oxford Brookes University to study History and Town planning. In 2000 he was part of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team that won the men's coxed four at the Rowing World Championships. The following year he was again world champion, this time in the coxless four, …
- John Rhodes
John Edward Rhodes (born February 13, 1870 - died February 6, 1947) was a British sailor who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was a crew member of the British boat "Cobweb", which won the gold medal in the 8 metre class.
- William Roberts
William "Bill" Roberts (April 5, 1912 - December 5, 2001) was a British athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Born in Salford, Lancashire, William Roberts won the British AAA championships in 440 yd in 1935 and 1937. At the 1934 British Empire Games, Roberts finished second in 440 yd behind Godfrey Rampling, but turned the silver into the gold medal in the next British Empire Games in 1938 in Sydney, Australia.
- John Buchanan
John Buchanan (born January 1, 1884 - died November 25, 1943) was a British sailor who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was a crew member of the British boat "Hera", which won the gold medal in the 12 metre class.
- Jon Potter
Jonathan ("Jon") Nicholas Mark Potter (born November 19, 1963) is a former field hockey player, who was a member of the golden winning British squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Four years earlier, at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he secured the bronze medal with his team. During this time, Potter won 234 caps for Great Britain (126) and England (108), scoring 41 international goals. He competed in three Olympics and in three World Cups, …
- Nick Rogers
Nick Rogers is a sailing competitor from Great Britain. He won a silver medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics with Joe Glanfield in the 470 (dinghy) class. In early 2007, he appeared on BBC cookery programme Ready Steady Cook against fellow Olympic medallist Sarah Webb.
- Charles Morris
Charles W. Morris was a British featherweight boxer who competed in the early twentieth century. He won a silver medal in Boxing at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
- David Jacobs
David Henry Jacobs (born April 30, 1888 in Cardiff, Wales - died June 6, 1976 in Aberconwy, Wales), was a British athlete. At the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Jacobs won a gold medal as the first leg in the British 4x100 m relay team, in spite of finishing second behind the United States in the semifinals. The United States was later disqualified for a fault in passing the baton, …
- Peter Scott
Sir Peter Markham Scott, CH, CBE, DSC, FRS, FZS, (September 14, 1909 – August 29, 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter and sportsman. Peter Scott was born in London, the only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who died when Peter was two years old. He famously left instructions to his wife, the sculptor Kathleen Bruce, regarding Peter, to "try and make the boy interested in natural history if you can".
- Linford Christie
Linford Christie, OBE (born April 2, 1960) is a former athlete, and the only English man to win Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European 100 m gold medals. He still holds the UK record. Christie's track career was ended when he received a two-year ban for taking a performance-enhancing substance, although he has continually denied any wrongdoing.
- Christopher Jones
Christopher Jones (born June 23, 1886 - died December 18, 1937) was a British water polo player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was part of the British team, which was able to win the gold medal.
- Matthew Pinsent
Sir Matthew Clive Pinsent CBE (born 10 October, 1970) is an English rowing champion, four-time Olympic gold medallist and broadcaster. Pinsent was born in Holt, Norfolk, and began rowing at Eton College. He began his international career at the Junior World Rowing Championships in 1987. He raced again in 1988, winning the junior coxless pairs with Tim Foster. After finishing school, Pinsent studied Geography at St Catherine's College, Oxford.
- John Gregory
John ("Jack") Arthur Gregory (June 22 1923 - December 15 2003) was a British athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. He competed for Great Britain in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the silver medal with his team mates John Archer, Alastair McCorquodale and Kenneth Jones.
- Edward Wright
Edward Gordon Dundas Wright (born October 3, 1884 - died June 5, 1947) was an English amateur football (soccer) player who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was part of the English team, which won the gold medal in the football tournament. He played one match.
- Thomas Green
Thomas William Green (March 20, 1894 - March 29, 1975) was a British athlete who competed mainly in the 50 kilometre walk. He competed for Great Britain in the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States in the 50 kilometre walk where he won the gold medal.
- Walter Jones
Walter John Henry Jones (June 4, 1866 - April 14, 1932), was an English polo player. He was born at the Walmsleys, Leigh, Lancashire, the son of William Charles Jones and Lucretia Elizabeth Jones. His father was the owner of Jones Brothers Cotton Mills in Leigh, and extremely wealthy. Walter was a fine sportsman, was educated at Harrow School and Jesus College, Cambridge, and played polo, primarily for the "Rugby" team.
- James Cracknell
James Cracknell, OBE (born 5 May 1972) is an English rowing champion and double Olympic gold medallist. He began rowing whilst attending Kingston Grammar School and rowed at the Junior World Championships in 1989 and 1990 — winning a gold medal in the latter. Moving into the senior squad, Cracknell had numerous World Championship appearances — but no medal wins. He qualified in the double scull for the 1996 Summer Olympics, but fell ill and was unable to race.
- William Foster
William Foster (born July 10, 1890 - died December 17, 1963) was a British freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics. In 1908 he won the gold medal as part of the British 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay team and did not compete in any other competition. In the 400 metre freestyle final he finished fourth and in the 1500 metre freestyle event he was eliminated in the semi-finals.
- Nick Dempsey
Nick Dempsey (born 13 August 1980 in Norwich) is an English windsurfer. Dempsey booked his first international success at the 1998 Mistral Youth World Championships where he won the bronze medal. As a senior his first win was clinched at the North Sea Cup Series in Pevensey Bay and an additional third place in the Kieler Woche. During the 2000 Summer Olympics he finished in 16th position. He continued winning competitions in 2001 and beyond like Athens Eurolymp Week, …