- Johnny Vegas
Johnny Vegas (born Michael Joseph Pennington on September 11, 1971 in St. Helens) is an English comedian. He is known for his random rants, his husky voice, his support of rugby league (St Helens RFC in particular, who he has played for in a guest appearance) and his drinking of Guinness. More recently he has made a successful move into dramatic acting.
- Sean Long
Sean Elizabeth Long (born September 24 1976 in Wigan) is a rugby league player who currently plays for St Helens as scrum-half. Long started his career at his hometown club Wigan Warriors before swiftly moving to Widnes Vikings. His performances for the Vikings caught the eye of several of Super League's top clubs, and he was eventually signed by St Helens when needing a replacement for the departing Bobbie Goulding.
- Paul Wellens
Paul Wellens (born February 27, 1980) is a rugby league footballer who plays for St Helens. Wellen normally plays as a fullback, but he has played on the wing in his early days.. Wellens broke through the St Helens RFC ranks to make his debut in the 1999 season. Success quickly followed and Wellens soon secured his place in what was a strong team. Wellens is known for his dependability and all round game, …
- Martin Gleeson
Martin Gleeson is a rugby league player from Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. He is rated as one of the top centres in international rugby league, his defining characteristic being an outstanding side-step; he also has a sound defensive technique. Gleeson was born in Wigan on 28 May, 1980. Much of his early rugby development took place in Australia, where he emigrated with his family at age 9 to live in Queensland.
- Daniel Anderson
Daniel Anderson (born May 3, 1967) is a rugby league coach. He is particularly noted for his work with the development of younger players. He is currently the coach of St Helens RLFC, succeeding the previous coach Ian Millward, who was sacked by the club in 2005. During his time at St Helens RLFC, he has raised the club's status, leading them to Grand Final victory of the engage Super League last season.
- Lee Gilmour
Lee Gilmour is a rugby league footballer who plays for St Helens. Gilmour's usual position is second row, but he has played on the wing and in the centres when a back-line player suffered an injury. Lee Gilmour has in the past played for Bradford and Wigan. Gilmour is also a Great Britain and Scotland international. Gilmour gained true international repute when during the 2006 Rugby League Tri-Nations he scored the decisive try in the Lions’ 23-12 win in Sydney in 2006.
- Ian Millward
Ian Millward (born August 22 1960), is an Australian-born rugby league coach and is currently assistant coach for North Queensland Cowboys. He is the former head coach of Wigan Warriors, St Helens RLFC and Leigh Centurions. He is one of the most successful, controversial and colourful figures involved in English Rugby league. He was in charge at Wigan from May 2005, his appointment coming just two weeks after an acrimonious departure from the club's fiercest rivals, …
- Chris Joynt
Chris Joynt (born 7 December 1971, Wigan) was a rugby league player in the Super League competition, who featured as a second row forward. He played for the St Helens during a successful 12 year period with the club. Joynt began his career at Oldham before moving on to play for St Helens. Joynt has also played for the Newcastle Knights out in Australia. Joynt skippered Saints for many years and he lifted many trophies throughout a glittering Knowsley Road career.
- Jamie Lyon
Jamie Lyon (born 24 January 1982) is an Australian rugby league player currently playing for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League competition. He previously played for the Parramatta Eels and also played two seasons in the English Super League with St. Helens. He has represented for New South Wales and Australia. Lyon has previously played for St.
- Nick Fozzard
Nick Fozzard is an English rugby league footballer who plays for St Helens.
- Mike Bennett
Mike Bennett is a professional rugby league player for British rugby club St Helens. His specialist position is second-row. On Tuesday, 29 August 2006, Mike signed a contract extension at the Lancashire club which will keep him at Knowsley Road for another two seasons.
- Paul Anderson
Paul Anderson (born 25 October 1971) was a British rugby league player. Anderson began his career in 1991 playing as a prop for Leeds Rhinos. He spend the majority of his career at the Bradford Bulls, where he established himself as a Bradford and Great Britain stalwart. In 2005, Anderson moved to St Helens RFC.
- Francis Meli
Francis Meli (born April 27, 1979 in Apia, Samoa) is a New Zealand rugby league player, currently playing for St Helens in the Super League competition. Meli has represented New Zealand in fourteen test matches between 2001 and 2005. His position of choice is at Wing. Meli scored a New Zealand Warriors' record 23 tries in the 2003 NRL season. He scored 5 of those tries in a single finals game against the Canterbury Bulldogs, a feat still unparalleled in the finals.
- Jason Cayless
Jason Cayless (born January 15 1980 in Sydney, Australia to New Zealand parents) is a New Zealand rugby league player for St Helens RFC in the Super League. Jason is the younger brother of another prominent rugby league player, Nathan Cayless He previously played for the Sydney Roosters and the Parramatta Eels in the National Rugby League. He has also represented the New Zealand national rugby league team on several occasions since 2002. His usual position is prop forward.
- Bobbie Goulding
Bobbie Goulding is a former Great Britain international half-back turned coach. He is currently not in work as a coach after leaving his post at Rochdale Hornets in November 2005, citing frustration at the club's financial problems. During his two seasons in charge at the National League One club he had not had a proper contract, despite impressing and twice being nominated for coach of the year.
- Darren Albert
Darren Albert (born February 28, 1976 in Auburn, New South Wales) Was formeley an Australian rugby league player for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, the Newcastle Knights as well as English Super League side St Helens, where he scored 88 tries in 124 appearances from 2002 to 2005. He has also represented New South Wales in the 1999 State of Origin series and Country in City vs. Country Origin in 2001. Albert's position of choice is at Wing.
- Jason Hooper
Jason Hooper is an Australian rugby league footballer who played for St Helens. St Helens stand-off or loose forward Jason Hooper has announced his retirement at the age of 29 because of a long-term shoulder injury.
- Shaun McRae
Shaun McRae is the head coach of the Salford City Reds. Shaun McRae, nicknamed 'Bomber', was born in 1959 and began his rugby league coaching career as Head Coach with St Helens (1996-1998) in the British Super League, where he won the Challenge Cup in 1996 and in 1997, and the Super League championship in 1996. In 1998 he moved to the now defunct Gateshead Thunder club, before coaching Hull between 1999-2004.
- Kel Coslett
Kel Coslett was a Welsh Rugby Union international fullback before he signed for the St Helens RLFC in 1961, staying with the club until 1976. Coslett was a brilliant goalkicker, landing 1,639 goals and scoring 45 tries for the club. He was also a tough-tackling, raw-boned youngster, and although a broken ankle cost him his blistering pace, he was still a dangerous player with the ball in hand.
- Tim Jonkers
Tim Jonkers (born July 3, 1981 in Amsterdam, Netherlands), is an ex-professional Rugby League player. He moved to St Helens, Merseyside at the age of six, learning his trade at local Blackbrook rugby club. He was snapped up inevitably by St Helens RFC and was hailed as one of Saints' brightest young hopes.
- Paul Clough
Paul Clough is an English rugby league footballer who plays for St Helens. In November 2006 Paul Clough was promoted to train full time with the St Helens RLFC first team squad. He had also been training with the squad in the 2005 season, but his performances have seen him included in Saints elite 25 man squad for th upcoming season. He is expected to compete for a regular first team spot over the next few years and was given the number 22 shirt for the 2007 season.
- Keith Mason
Keith Mason is a rugby league prop forward. He plays for Huddersfield Giants and has previously played for St Helens, Castleford Tigers,Wakefield Trinity Wildcats and Melbourne Storm.
- Shaun Edwards
Shaun Edwards OBE is a former English rugby league player and now head coach at London Wasps rugby union team.. He played at scrum half for Wigan. Shaun spent fifteen years at Central Park and was a modern day legend. His father Jack had been a great half-back for Warrington in the late fifties and early sixties. He was a former England schoolboy captain at both rugby league and rugby union, and had been hunted by several clubs.
- Anthony Stewart
Anthony Stewart (born 05/03/79) is a winger for the Salford City Reds rugby league team. He began at Hindley Juniors before joining Saints. Anthony signed for Salford on loan from St Helens in 2004. He signed permanently in 2005. He has represented Ireland and Lancashire.
- Bryn Hargreaves
Bryn Hargreaves (born November 14, 1985) is an English rugby league player with Super League team St Helens RFC. Bryn Hargreaves has played prop forward in the Wigan Academy since 2002. He made his first team debut from the subs' bench against Salford City Reds in July 2004 and his full debut against London Broncos in August of that year. Hargreaves was given a 2-year full-time contract with the Wigan Warriors in August 2004.
- Ricky Bibey
Ricky Bibey is a rugby league footballer who plays for Wakefield Trinity Wildcats. Bibey's usual position is prop or second row. Ricky Bibey is an England A international prop forward. Bibey has played for Wigan, Saints, Oldham, Leigh and now for Wakefield.
- Scott Gibbs
Scott Gibbs (Born 23 January 1971 in Bridgend) is a former rugby footballer who represented Wales and the Lions in rugby union and Wales and Great Britain in rugby league. His most memorable feats were his performance in the 1997 British Lions tour to South Africa (in which he was named "Player of the Series") and the try he scored in the dying minutes of the last ever Five Nations match in 1999 against England.
- Chris Flannery
Chris Flannery is a Rugby League player who plays for St Helens in the European Super League competition. Flannery has also represented Queensland in the State of Origin on 10 occasions. He previously played for the Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League competition. Flannery's position of choice is at loose-forward. He can also operate as a utility back row forward, at stand-off and also in the centres.
- Tom van Vollenhoven
Tom van Vollenhoven was a South African rugby player, who enjoyed a prolific career with St Helens after switching codes from rugby union from Northern Transvaal at the end of the 1950s. He was lured to the 13-a-side code after scoring a hat-trick for the Springboks against the British Lions in 1955 in a ‘cloak and dagger’ style operation which saw Saints vie off the competition of Wigan for his services, and the attention of the South African RFU.
- Mark Edmondson
Mark Edmonson (born Nov 3 1979 in Lancaster, England) is an English rugby league player who plays for the Salford City Reds. Edmondson plays either front row or back row positions. He played for Vale of Lune RUFC and St Helens from 1997 to 2005. He played several matches in the NRL for the Sydney Roosters. He has now returned home to play for Salford after his time spent down under in the NRL. His time in the NRL did not see him gain much on-field game time.
- Andy Platt
Andy Platt is a former English rugby league player. He started his professional career at St Helens RFC as a ball-playing Second Rower. Here he rose to national prominence and represented Great Britain. In 1988 he signed for the Wigan Warriors for £140,000. He was part of the team that dominated British football in the early 1990's and in 1993 he won the Man of Steel Award. In 1994 he signed with the new Auckland Warriors franchise in the Australian Rugby League, …
- Lee Briers
Lee Briers is a rugby league player who plays stand-off for Warrington Wolves. He formerly played for St Helens RFC, breaking into the first team as a teenager, standing in for the suspended captain Bobbie Goulding, and helping guide the Saints through to the 1997 Rugby League Challenge Cup final, winning the Man Of The Match award in the semi-final defeat of Salford. However, the return of Goulding meant Briers was dropped to the reserves, …
- Dean McGilvray
Dean McGilvray is a rugby league footballer who plays for St Helens in the Super League Dean McGilvray is a dimunitive winger and made his debut in 2006 against the Catalans Dragons.
- Karl Pryce
Karl Pryce (born July 27, 1986 in Bradford, England) is an English rugby union player who currently plays for Gloucester in the Guinness Premiership competition. His position of choice is on the wing. Pryce previously played rugby league with the Bradford Bulls until 2006. Karl is also the younger brother of England and St Helens rugby league player Leon Pryce. Karl is one of the outstanding Junior prospects in the British game.
- Mickey Higham
Mickey Higham (born September 18 1980) is an English rugby league player who currently plays for English club Wigan Warriors in the Super League competition. His usual position is hooker. Higham joined Saints from Leigh Centurions in November 2000. He made over 100 appearances for St Helens, scoring 33 tries. He made his Great Britain debut in the 2004 Gillette Tri-Nations against New Zealand, …
- David Ward
David Ward played for and managed Leeds Rugby League FC. Possibly the greatest moment of his playing career was his performance during the 1978 Challenge Cup final at Wembley Stadium against St.Helens, where he gave a commanding performance marshalling the Leeds team, and kicked two late drop-goals to complete what was then a record comeback. One of the more notable of his coaching career was when Ward successfully signed John Gallagher for Leeds, …
- Matty Smith
Matty Smith is an English rugby league footballer who plays for St Helens. Shaun McRae has labelled the Saints youngster as the heir-apparent successor to scrum-half Sean Long at the Super League club..
- Vinnie Anderson
Vinnie Anderson (born February 14 1979 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a New Zealand rugby league player for Warrington Wolves in the English Super League competition, he also previously played for the New Zealand Warriors in the National Rugby League and St. Helens Rugby Football Club. His usual position is lock forward, though he had been utilised much by his former team St. Helens most often in the second row and can also play in the centres.
- Danny Tickle
Danny Tickle born in Golborne, Greater Manchester, England) is a rugby league player who played for the Wigan Warriors through the 2006 season in the Super League. Previously, he played three years for the Halifax RLFC club in Super League. Danny signed for Wigan despite interest from other Super League sides, including St Helens. He performed well enough to earn a new two-year contract in July 2004.
- Ian Hardman
Ian Hardman is an English rugby league player who plays for St Helens. He is a winger, but can also cover the full-back position. Hardman went on loan to Hull Kingston Rovers for a month on the 10 April 2007. More information about the Saints winger to follow