- Geoff Hurst
Sir Geoffrey Charles Hurst, MBE (born December 8, 1941 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire) is a legend of West Ham and England football, he is also a footballer enshrined in the game's history as the only player to have scored a hat-trick in a World Cup final. His three goals came in the 1966 final for England in their 4-2 win over Germany at Wembley.
- Ian Wright
Ian Edward Wright, MBE (born 3 November 1963 in Woolwich, London) is a former professional footballer and current television and radio personality.
- Dean Ashton
Dean Ashton (born November 24 1983 in Swindon, Wiltshire) is an English footballer who currently plays for West Ham United in the Premiership. Ashton is a strong, powerful forward who is good in the air and a constant threat. He is widely-considered to be one of the most promising young strikers around, having consistently scored goals at every tier of English football he has played in. Ashton is a product of Dario Gradi's Crewe Alexandra academy.
- Jimmy Greaves
James Peter 'Jimmy' Greaves (born 20 February, 1940) is an English former football player, England's third highest goalscorer, and more recently a television pundit.
- Teddy Sheringham
Edward Paul "Teddy" Sheringham MBE (born April 2, 1966 in Highams Park, London) is a veteran English footballer currently playing for Colchester United. Sheringham plays as a striker, and has had an exceptionally successful career at club level, winning almost every domestic honour available with his clubs (most notably 'The Treble' with Manchester United and becoming a "Legend" with Tottenham Hotspur). Sheringham also represented England at international level.
- Marlon Harewood
Marlon Harewood (born August 25, 1979) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Aston Villa. He started his career at Nottingham Forest, had a successful spell on loan to FC Haka before joining West Ham United in 2003 and then Aston Villa in 2007.
- Jermain Defoe
Jermain Colin Defoe (born 7 October 1982 in Beckton, London) is an English footballer of Saint Lucian and Dominican descent. He is a striker who plays club football for Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League.
- John Hartson
John Hartson (born April 5, 1975, in Swansea, Wales) is a professional footballer, currently playing for West Bromwich Albion. As of 2005, he had made 50 appearances for Wales in international football. On 6 February, 2006 Hartson decided to retire from international football, only to take himself out of retirement in August 2006, if needed by Wales boss John Toshack. He is in the mould of a traditional centre forward and "target man".
- Bobby Zamora
Robert Lester "Bobby" Zamora (born January 16, 1981 in Barking, London) is a native born English footballer of Trinidadian background who plays for English Premier League club, West Ham United.
- Clyde Best
Clyde Best MBE (born February 24, 1951 in Bermuda) was a Bermudian football player who most notably played striker for West Ham United, and was one of the first post-World War II black players in British football. While he initially suffered through some unpleasant fan chanting, Clyde became a true fan favourite at Upton Park. He was a strong, powerful player with the skills of the traditional English centre forward, …
- Paolo di Canio
Paolo Di Canio (born 9 July 1968) is an Italian football player who currently plays for Italian Serie C2 club Cisco Roma.
- Tony Cottee
Anthony Richard "Tony" Cottee is an English former football player. During his career Cottee played for a number of sides, including West Ham United, Everton and Leicester City. A prolific goalscorer especially in his West Ham days, where he was voted the PFA Young Player of the Year in 1986, which encouraged Everton to smash the British transfer record in 1988, paying West Ham £2.2 million for his services.
- Carlton Cole
Carlton Cole (born November 12, 1983 in Croydon, London, England) is a football player who currently plays for West Ham United.
- Brian Deane
Brian Christopher Deane is a former English footballer. Signed for £40,000 from Doncaster Rovers in the close season of 1988, Deane first played and scored for Sheffield United in an 8-1 victory against Skegness Town. His first league goal came in the Third Division in the opening game of the season against Reading but his hero status did not really start until September 17, when both he and Tony Agana hit hat-tricks in a 6-1 victory over Chester City.
- Serhiy Rebrov
Serhiy Stanislavovych Rebrov, born on March 6, 1974 in Horlivka, Donetsk region) is a Ukrainian football forward turned midfielder, member of the Ukrainian national team, which he helped qualify for the 2006 World Cup, the nation's first ever World Cup. Rebrov gained international fame as an attacking partner of Andriy Shevchenko at Dynamo Kyiv throughout the 1990s.
- Carlos Tévez
Carlos Alberto Tévez is an Argentine footballer who made his name with Argentine giants Boca Juniors and later in Brazil with Corinthians. He now plays for West Ham United. He is regarded as one of the most promising prospects to come out of Argentina. Like Argentine teammate Lionel Messi, he has been labelled as the "New Maradona". Diego Maradona once described him as the "Argentine prophet for the 21st century".
- Iain Dowie
Iain Dowie, (born January 9 1965 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England), is a football manager and coach, and former professional football player and Northern Ireland international. He was appointed manager of Coventry City on 19 February 2007.
- Clive Allen
Clive Darren Allen (born Stepney, London, May 20, 1961) is a former English international football player and a prolific scorer for a number of clubs. Allen is the son of ex-Tottenham Hotspur forward Les Allen, who was a member of the legendary team which won the First Division title and FA Cup "double" in 1961 (the Cup success occurred exactly two weeks before Allen Jnr's birth).
- Frédéric Kanouté
Frédéric "Fredi" Kanouté is a French born Malian footballer, who plays for Sevilla FC in the Spanish league. Kanouté's talents as a tall striker were first noticed by his local team, Olympique Lyonnais, and he joined them as an apprentice in 1997. He played for the French under-21 team while at the club. Kanouté joined English club West Ham United in 2000. He went on to play 84 times for the East London club, scoring 29 goals.
- Paulo Futre
Paulo Jorge dos Santos Futre, (pron., (born 28 February 1966 in Montijo, Portugal) is a former professional footballer. He is commonly known as Futre. Futre appeared in 1983 as a very young left winger in Sporting. When he requested a pay rise from president João Rocha he was turned down and soon left Sporting for FC Porto. In the following years he collected two Portuguese Championships and played in the 1987 European Champions Cup final won by Porto.
- Les Ferdinand
Leslie "Les" Ferdinand MBE (born December 18, 1966 in Paddington, London) is a former English footballer. He is best known for his time at Newcastle United and Q.P.R. during the 1990s, during which period his powerful and elegant centre forward play and ability in the air resulted in a number of appearances for England. He is the cousin of current Premiership players Rio and Anton Ferdinand and is popularly nicknamed "Sir Les".
- Freddy Eastwood
Freddy Eastwood (born October 29, 1983 in Basildon, Essex) is an English-born footballer, currently playing for Wolverhampton Wanderers. He is eligible to play for the Welsh national football team as his maternal grandfather was born in Wales.
- Leroy Rosenior
Leroy Rosenior (born August 24, 1964 in Clapham, London) is a football (soccer) coach, recently sacked by Torquay United after only ten minutes in the post, making this the shortest managerial tenure in English football history. He is a former professional footballer whose clubs included Fulham, Queens Park Rangers (for whom he appeared as a substitute in the 1986 Milk Cup Final), Bristol City and West Ham United. As one of the few black football managers in England, …
- Mike Newell
Michael Colin Newell (born January 27 1965, Liverpool, England) is an English football manager and former player in charge at Luton Town until March 15, 2007. He also played for them in the late 1980s. Newell is a self-confessed Liverpool fan.
- David Connolly
David Connolly (born June 6, 1977 in Willesden, England) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a striker. He currently plays for Sunderland. After being educated at St Joan of Arc in Hertfordshire, he started his career with Watford where he scored 15 goals in 34 games. That impressive record earned him a move to Dutch team Feyenoord. He was at one point the highest paid player in Dutch football.
- Paulo Wanchope
Paulo Cesar Wanchope Watson (born July 31, 1976) is a Costa Rican football player. As of February 2007 Wanchope is the second most prolific goalscorer in the history of the national football team (surpassed by Rolando Fonseca), with 45 goals in 72 international matches. Wanchope began his career with Club Sport Herediano, until he went to England to play with Derby County, in 1997, and for whom he scored a memorable goal against Manchester United on his debut, …
- Dave Sexton
Dave Sexton (born April 6, 1930 in Islington, London) is a retired English football manager and player. Son of former professional boxer, Archie Sexton, he started his playing career with West Ham United in 1948. Playing mainly at inside-forward, he would finish his career with time at Luton Town, Leyton Orient, Brighton and Hove Albion, and Crystal Palace. His biggest success came at Brighton, where he won the Division Three South title in 1957-58.
- Petr Mikolanda
Petr Mikolanda (born September 12, 1984) is a football player from the Czech Republic. He is an under 21 international centre forward who has played for Viktoria Zizkov and English Premiership club West Ham United. Mikolanda arrived at Upton Park having scored 13 goals in the Czech second division in the 2004-05 season for Viktoria Zizkov. He signed for the East London outfit after a successful trial at the beginning of the 2005-06 season, …
- John Radford
John Radford (born 22 February 1947 in Hemsworth, Yorkshire) is a former English football player. Playing mostly as an inside forward or centre forward (and occasionally as a right-winger), Radford spent most of his career at Arsenal. He joined the club as an apprentice in 1962, turning professional in February 1964. He was a prolific goalscorer in the youth and reserve teams, …
- Trevor Morley
Trevor Morley (born March 20 1961 in Nottingham) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. Morley played for Northampton Town, having previously seen non-league football with Corby Town and Nuneaton Borough. He joined Manchester City in January 1988 as part of an exchange deal that saw Tony Adcock move to the County Ground.
- Roger Cross
Roger Cross (born October 20 1948 in East Ham, London) is an English former footballer who played as a forward. He is now chief scout at West Ham United. Cross' association with West Ham began with his signing as an apprentice in July 1964. He was the reserve team top scorer in two consecutive seasons, but he failed to establish himself in the Hammers first team, and was loaned to Leyton Orient at one point. In 1969, after 8 appearances and a single goal, …
- Sandy Clark
Alexander "Sandy" Clark (born 28 October 1956, in Airdrie) is a former professional football player and is now currently a coach as well as doing regular punditry work for BBC Scotland. He was a centre forward. He played for several clubs in his playing career including Rangers, Hearts, home town Airdrieonians and West Ham United. His longest and most successful spells were those at Tynecastle and Broomfield. He has also managed several clubs, including Partick Thistle, …
- Terry Woodgate
John Terence Woodgate (born December 11 1919 in East Ham, London, died April 1982) was an English footballer who played for West Ham United and Peterborough United. At home on either wing, Terry made his Second Division debut before World War II, against Bradford Park Avenue on April 7 1939. Woodgate gained a regular place in the Hammers team after the war and was ever-present during the 1950-51 season. He went on to make 275 appearances for the East London club, …
- David Lloyd
David Lloyd (born June 1872 in Hackney, London) was an English footballer who played for Thames Ironworks, the club that went on to become West Ham United. Lloyd played for the Third Grenadier Guards before moving to the Irons in 1898. He played for Thames Ironworks during the 1898-99 season, the club's only season in the Southern League Division Two. Lloyd, who was six foot four inches in height, played as a forward, …
- George Sage
George Sage was an English footballer who played as an outside or inside forward. He played for Old Castle Swifts F.C. until their demise in 1895. A few months later his contract was picked up by Thames Ironworks F.C., the club that later became West Ham United F.C. It is likely that he played in 'The Irons' first ever game against Royal Ordnance, and was a regular during the first half of the season.
- H. Rossiter
H. Rossiter was a footballer who played inside right for Reading before moving in 1896 to Thames Ironworks, the team that went on to become West Ham United. He was a regular for "The Irons" in the 1896-97 season, playing in their FA Cup game of that year against Sheppey United.
- Titi Camara
Aboubacar Sidiki Camara, more commonly known as Titi Camara, is a Guinea football player who, as of 2005, is playing for Amiens SC. Camara was once a highly-touted prospect, spending time with Lens (1996-98), Olympique Marseille (1998-99), Liverpool (1999-2000), and West Ham United (2000-03). He signed for the latter team on December 21, 2000, for £1.5 million.
- Bryan 'Pop' Robson
Bryan Stanley Robson, better known as Pop Robson (born November 11 1945, Sunderland) was a much travelled footballer, playing for Newcastle United, West Ham, Sunderland, Chelsea and Carlisle as a centre forward. Although diminutive, Pop was one of the most prolific goalscorers of his generation, yet was only ever an England Under-23 International, never managing to earn a full England Cap.
- Neil Mellor
Neil Andrew Mellor (born November 4, 1982 in Sheffield, England) is a professional football player with Preston North End FC. He made his name in 2004 by scoring a last-minute goal to give Liverpool a 2-1 victory over Arsenal at Anfield. Mellor also scored a goal during Liverpool's match with Olympiacos at Anfield during the group stage of the 2004-05 UEFA Champions League, which Liverpool went on to win.
- Syd Puddefoot
Sydney Charles Puddefoot (born October 17 1894 in Bow, London, died October 2 1972 in Rochford, Essex) was a footballer who played as a forward for West Ham United. He was also a cricketer for Essex and later went into football management. Puddefoot was a pupil at Park School in West Ham and played with Condor Athletic and Limehouse Town before being spotted by West Ham manager Syd King in a London Juniors match against Surrey Juniors.