- 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.
- Steve Bull
Stephen George Bull, MBE, (born 28 March 1965) is a former English footballer who had a long career in the football league with Wolverhampton Wanderers. Steve Bull was born on the Moat Farm estate (known locally as the "The Lost City") on 28 March 1965. He started school in September 1969 at Ocker Hill Primary School and moved up to Willingsworth High School in September 1976, by which time he was excelling in school football teams.
- 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.
- Emlyn Hughes
Emlyn Walter Hughes, OBE (August 28 1947 - November 9 2004) was an English footballer who captained the much-decorated Liverpool F.C. side of the 1970s.
- Geoff Thomas
Geoff Thomas (born August 5, 1964) is a former English footballer who captained Crystal Palace to the FA Cup final in 1990, where they drew 3-3 with Manchester United at Wembley before losing 1-0 in the replay. He started his professional career at Rochdale before moving to Crewe in March 1984, establishing himself as a first-team regular and attracting top-flight interest before moving to Palace in 1987. He later turned out for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Nottingham Forest, …
- Billy Wright
Billy Wright, CBE (6 February 1924 – 3 September 1994) was an English footballer for Wolverhampton Wanderers. A statue of him stands by their stadium in his memory. Born William Ambrose Wright in Ironbridge, Shropshire, he played in the wing-half and other defensive positions. Billy was the first ever player to represent his country a hundred times. He captained England during their campaigns at the 1950, 1954 and 1958 World Cup finals.
- Rob Kelly
Robert Anthony Kelly (born December 21, 1964) is an English football manager formerly of Leicester City and currently coaching at Preston North End.
- Steffen Iversen
Steffen Iversen (born November 10, 1976 in Oslo) is a Norwegian football player currently playing for Rosenborg. The first club that Iversen played for was Nationalkameratene. He later moved on to Astor, before starting his professional career at Rosenborg, with whom he won the Tippeligaen twice in 1995 and 1996. In England he has played for Tottenham Hotspur and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
- Darren Ward
Darren Philip Ward (born September 13, 1978 in Kenton, Harrow) is an English footballer who plays for Wolverhampton Wanderers in The Championship as a defender.
- Carlton Cole
Carlton Cole (born November 12, 1983 in Croydon, London, England) is a football player who currently plays for West Ham United.
- Robbie Slater
Robert Slater (born November 22, 1964 in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England) is a former Australian football (soccer) player. He is more commonly known as Robbie Slater. He has 44 caps for the Australian national team, including in the 1997 World Cup qualifier against Iran. His final appearance for Australia was against Saudi Arabia in the 1997 Confederations Cup. He is a member of the Football Federation Australia Football Hall of Fame.
- Kenneth Hunt
Reverend Kenneth Reginald Gunnery Hunt (born February 24, 1884 in Oxford - died April 28, 1949 in Heathfield) was an English amateur football (soccer) player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and in the 1920 Summer Olympics. Having been part of the Wolverhampton Wanderers team who had won the FA cup on 25 April 1908 (scoring the opening goal in a 3-1 victory over Newcastle United), he was a member of the English team, …
- Dave Beasant
David John "Dave" Beasant, (born March 20, 1959 in Willesden, London) is a former English football goalkeeper who began his career in the late 1970s. A well-traveled player, Beasant's former clubs include Newcastle United, Chelsea, Southampton, Nottingham Forest, Portsmouth, Tottenham Hotspur, Brighton & Hove Albion and Wigan Athletic. His nickname was 'Lurch' after the butler in the TV show "The Addams Family".
- Lee Naylor
Lee Martyn Naylor (born 19 March 1980 in Bloxwich, England) is an English footballer, currently playing for Scottish Premier League club Celtic. Naylor was born in Bloxwich, and joined Wolverhampton Wanderers on leaving school in 1996. He made his debut against Birmingham City at St Andrews in 1997. He went on to represent England national football team Under-21s.
- Phil Parkes
Phil Parkes (born July 14, 1947, West Bromwich) is a former professional football goalkeeper. He was Wolverhampton Wanderers' first-choice keeper for much of the late '60s and early '70s. Parkes joined Wanderers in 1962 straight from school and turned professional two years later. He made his first-team debut in November 1966, saving a penalty in a 3-2 Wolves win over Preston North End.
- Karl Henry
Karl Henry (born November 26 1982, Wolverhampton, England) is a professional footballer, playing with Football League Championship side Wolverhampton Wanderers. A midfielder, Henry began his career as a youth player with Stoke City, making his first team debut during the 2001-2002 season, and has been selected for England under 18, 20 and 21 squads. He spent a spell on loan at Cheltenham Town F.C. in the 2002-2003 season, …
- Paul Harrison
Paul Harrison (born 18 December 1984 in Liverpool) is an English footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. He is currently without a club. He attended Liverpool's youth academy but never made a first team appearance despite appearing on the bench on several occasions. He was loaned to Leeds midway through the 2004-05 season but again did not make a first team appearance.
- Mark Davies
Mark Davies (born February 18, 1988) is an English football player, who usually plays in the midfield. He captained the England U-17 team in youth World Cup qualifiers against Northern Ireland, and made his league debut for Wolverhampton Wanderers in the 2005-06 season. His first goal for Wolves was against Luton Town on January 13 2006. He is a former student of Pool Hayes Community School in Willenhall.
- Dave Thomas
Dave Thomas, born October 5, 1950 in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, England is a former professional footballer and England international who played as a midfielder. He had a long and successful playing career, playing for almost 20 years and totalling over 450 league appearances whilst playing for Burnley, QPR, Everton, Vancouver Whitecaps, Middlesbrough, Portsmouth and Wolverhampton Wanderers. He won 8 England caps overall whilst at Queens Park Rangers.
- Darren Anderton
Darren Robert Anderton (born March 3, 1972 in Southampton) is an English football player currently playing for Bournemouth and has recently extended his contract for a further year. Renowned as a player of huge potential, Anderton's career has been constantly frustrated by injury earning him the nickname "Sicknote". He began his career at Portsmouth, earning praise for his performances for Jim Smith's attacking side of the early 90s.
- Robbie Keane
Robert David "Robbie" Keane: (born 8 July 1980 in Tallaght, Dublin) is an Irish footballer, who currently plays as a striker for Tottenham Hotspur
- Eifion Williams
Eifion Wyn Williams (born 15 November, 1975 in Bangor, Wales) is a Welsh footballer who plays as a midfielder/striker. He has recently been signed by Wrexham following his release from Hartlepool United. He has represented Wales at B- level.
- Gordon Cowans
Gordon Sidney Cowans (born October 27, 1958 in West Cornforth, County Durham) is an English football player and coach. He was a member of Aston Villa's European Cup winning team of 1982. During his time at Aston Villa he was nicknamed Sid and such was his popularity that on moving to Bari the Villa fanzine "Missing Sid" was named after him. He won 10 caps and scored two goals for England. As well as distinguished career with Aston Villa, …
- Tomasz Frankowski
Tomasz Frankowski is a Polish footballer who currently plays for CD Tenerife and the Polish national team. The striker has appeared 18 times for the national team, scoring 10 goals. England fans will know him for the left-footed volley equaliser he scored against them in the World Cup qualifier at Old Trafford in October 2005.
- Darren Potter
Darren Potter (born December 21, 1984 in Liverpool) is a professional football player with Wolverhampton Wanderers. He is a former Liverpool schoolboy captain who hails from the Scotland Road area of the city and won his first senior cap for Ireland against Ecuador.
- Jermaine Easter
Jermaine Maurice Easter (born January 15 1982 in Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh professional footballer currently playing for League Two side Wycombe Wanderers. He plays as a striker for the club, and wears the number 9 shirt. Easter joined Wycombe on January 31, 2006 from Stockport County, after spells at Wolverhampton Wanderers, Hartlepool United, Cambridge United and Boston United.
- Andy Turner
Andy Turner (born 23 March 1975 in Woolwich) is an English footballer who is currently a Player Coach with Chasetown who play in the Southern League Division One Midlands. He started his career at Tottenham and later played for Portsmouth. Andy Turner is ranked alongside James Vaughan, James Milner, Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen as a former Premiership youngest goalscorer when he was with Tottenham Hotspur, aged 17 years and 166 days.
- Darren Ferguson
Darren Ferguson (born February 9, 1972) is a professional Scottish football player. He is currently the player-manager of Peterborough United in the English League Two.
- Michael Oakes
Michael Oakes is a footballer. His position is goalkeeper. He is currently playing for Cardiff City. He is the son of former Manchester City footballer Alan Oakes. Having previously played for Aston Villa (in which time he was loaned to Scarborough), Oakes joined Wolves in October 1999 for £450,000, and soon ousted long-serving Mike Stowell as number one at Molineux. He remained as the first-team goalkeeper until September 2002, …
- Jamie Smith
Jamie Smith (born 17th September 1974) is a professional footballer currently without a club, having been released by Milton Keynes Dons F.C.. He is a full-back. His former clubs are (in chronological order): Wolves (1994-1997), Crystal Palace (1997-2004) and Bristol City (2004-). He has had loan spells at Fulham (1998-1999) and Brentford (2006) His move to Crystal Palace was an interesting one; he had played a fine Play-off semi-final game against them, …
- Jemal Johnson
Jemal Johnson (born 3 May, 1985 in Paterson, New Jersey) is a footballer. He is a striker currently playing for Wolverhampton Wanderers. Though born in the United States, Johnson's family moved to Macclesfield when he was five years old. Originally signed by Manchester United, Johnson joined Blackburn Rovers' Academy when he was 16. Johnson made his first team debut as a substitute in Rovers' third round FA Cup tie at Cardiff City on 8 January, 2005.
- 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.
- Charles Mulgrew
Charles Patrick "Charlie" Mulgrew (born March 6 1986 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish footballer who currently plays for Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Football League Championship. He is a defender, playing mainly at left back. Mulgrew joined Wolves from Celtic in exchange for left back Lee Naylor on 23 August 2006. Having progressed through Celtic's youth system, Mulgrew turned professional in July 2002.
- Jack Griffiths
Jack Griffiths (born 1 September, 19?? in Fenton, Staffordshire) was a former English footballer who played at left-back. He joined Wolverhampton Wanderers in May 1929, but only made 6 appearances for the club. He then joined Bolton Wanderers in 1932, but did not make much of an impact as he had several injuries. He left Bolton for Manchester United in March 1934, becoming a replacement for John Silcock who left the club in August 1934.
- Ade Akinbiyi
Adeola (Ade) Peter Oluwatoyin Akinbiyi (born October 10, 1974 in Hackney, London) is an England born Nigerian footballer. He is a striker for Burnley in the Championship.
- Peter Withe
Peter Withe (born 30 August, 1951, Liverpool) is a much-travelled English centre forward, who played between 1971 and 1990. He now works as a manager, predominantly in South-east Asia.The highlights of his career came at Aston Villa, where he was a key player in the Football League title triumph of 1981 and scored his side's only goal in their European Cup final triumph in 1982.
- Iwan Roberts
Iwan Wyn Roberts (born 26 June, 1968 in Bangor, Wales) is a former professional footballer who played as a striker for a number of English league clubs. He also played international football for Wales, winning 15 caps without scoring.
- Jimmy Melia
Jimmy Melia (born Liverpool, Merseyside, England on 1 November 1937) is a former English footballer who spent most of his career playing for Liverpool and went on to became a manager.
- Jody Craddock
Jody Darryl Craddock (born July 25 1975 in Redditch) is an English professional football player and coach who currently plays as a defender for Wolverhampton Wanderers. Craddock was made captain of Wolverhampton Wanderers on the 3rd of August 2006, by manager Mick McCarthy. Craddock started his career at non-league Christchurch before earning a move to Cambridge United in August 1993 on a free transfer.
- Andy Gray
Andrew Mullen Gray (born November 30, 1955 in Glasgow) was a Scottish football player and is now a football pundit for Sky Sports.