- Randy de Puniet
Randy de Puniet (b. 14 February 1981) is a French motorcycle road racer. 2006 was his first season in MotoGP, for the Kawasaki factory team, where he remains for 2007. At Barcelona he took his first front-row start, and finished a career-best fifth. Up to Donington, he has started all but one other race on the third row. De Puniet was French 125cc champion in 1998, moving up to the world championship a year later. In 2001 he moved up to the 250cc World Championship.
- Mario Andretti
Mario Gabriele Andretti (born February 28, 1940 in Montona d'Istria, Italy, now Motovun, Croatia) is an Italian American racecar driver, and one of the most successful Americans in the history of auto racing. He has competed and won in many different types of auto racing, including stock cars, midget cars, sprint cars, IndyCars, drag racing cars, sports cars, and single-seater Formula One cars. During his career, Andretti won four IndyCar titles, …
- Peter Ebdon
Peter Ebdon (born August 27, 1970) is an English professional snooker player and current UK champion.
- Mark Allen
Mark Allen is a professional snooker player from Antrim town in Northern Ireland.
- Matthew Stevens
Matthew Stevens (born 11 September 1977, Carmarthen, Wales) is a Welsh professional snooker player. Turning professional in 1994, Stevens reached number six in the world rankings in 2000. He has won one ranking tournament victory: the UK Championship in 2003. Stevens has never won the World Snooker Championships but has reached the final twice. In 2000 he reached the final but lost 16-18 to Mark Williams after having been up 10-6, …
- Stephen Maguire
Stephen Maguire (born March 13, 1981) is a Scottish professional snooker player from Glasgow. When he was young, he was so keen to play the game that his grandparents knocked a wall out of their flat to ensure that a table would fit. Maguire first served notice of his potential by knocking out Stephen Lee in the first round of the UK Championship in 2002 shortly after turning professional. Maguire was the surprise winner of the 2004 European Open.
- Michael Adams
Michael Adams is an International Grandmaster of chess. On the July 2007 FIDE rating list he is number fifteen in the world with an Elo rating of 2724, making him the number one British chess player.
- Joe Perry
Joe Perry (born 13 August, 1974) is an English professional snooker player. Joe Perry is often referred to as the 'Fen Potter'. Perry climbed the rankings since turning professional in 1991, and reached the top sixteen in 2002, and has now spent 3 seasons in its lower reaches. He dropped out after 2005/2006, having entered the World Championships in 14th place. The two players immediately below him, Anthony Hamilton and Allister Carter lost their 1st round matches, …
- Neil Robertson
Neil Robertson (born February 11, 1982) is an Australian professional snooker player who won the 2006 Grand Prix, and the 2007 Welsh Open. Robertson is the first Australian to win a ranking tournament, and the only professional player to win two ranking tournaments in the 2006/2007 Main Tour season.
- Wayne Mardle
Wayne Mardle (born in Dagenham, England on May 10 1973) is a darts player for the Professional Darts Corporation, and former player in the BDO. He now lives in Romford. Before turning professional, he worked for The Association of Accounting Technicians Wayne started playing darts at the age of 11, when he practised with his dad. His first 180 came two weeks after he started playing.
- Joe Johnson
Joe Johnson (born 29 June, 1952) is an English former professional snooker player. A professional since 1979, much of Johnson's snooker career was fairly inauspicious, with a 9-8 loss to Tony Knowles in the final of the untelevised Professional Players Tournament in 1983 his most notable early impact. Indeed, he would be a relative unknown had he not been the surprise winner of the 1986 World Championship.
- Colin Chapman
Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman (19 May 1928 - 16 December 1982) was a British influential designer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry. In 1952 he founded the sports car company Lotus Cars. He studied structural engineering at University College, London where he joined the University Air Squadron and learned to fly. After graduating in 1948, he briefly joined the Royal Air Force.
- Chris Walker
Chris Walker (born February 25, 1972 in Nottingham) is a British motorcycle road racer. His nickname is "The Stalker". In the 2006 World Superbike season he raced for the PSG Kawasaki team. Chris has since signed to ride in the 2007 British Superbike championship for Rizla Suzuki. He had previously raced in this series, and in the 500cc World Championship. Like Formula One legend Ayrton Senna, Chris has Bell's Palsy, which has paralysed part of his face.
- Steve Smith
Steve Smith is vice president of Government and Community Affairs for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc). Smith serves as the company's liaison to elected officials and community leaders, helping to guide the development and implementation of all Turner community relations and employee volunteer projects. He also consults on the review, selection and funding of community non-profit organizations through TBS, Inc.'s corporate philanthropy program.
- Tony Drago
Tony Drago (born September 22, 1965) is a professional snooker and pool player from Malta. The highpoint of his career was when he won the 2003 World Pool Masters Tournament beating Hsia Hui-kai 8-6. A combination of exceptionally fast play and an emotional temperament has made him a popular character in snooker, …
- Joe Swail
Joe Swail (born August 29, 1969 A former English amateur champion and N. Ireland amateur runner-up, Swail has reached nine major ranking semi-finals, including the 2000 and 2001 World Championships but never a final. Amazingly, in each of his World Championship quarter-finals victories, against John Parrott and Patrick Wallace respectively, Swail trailed by 12 frames to 8, before winning the next five to win 13-12.
- Mark Davis
Mark Davis is an English professional snooker player from St. Leonards in Sussex, England. For 2005/2006 he is the world #42, with 2006/2007 likely to be his 5th successive season in the top 48. This represents a career resurgence for a player who came close to losing his Main Tour status in the late 1990s. Reaching the quarter-finals of the 2001 Regal Scottish tournament, his second career quarter-final, was the main catalyst for this.
- Layne Beachley
Layne Beachley (born May 24, 1972) is a professional surfer from Manly in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She is regarded as the best female professional surfer in history, having won the World Championship for six consecutive years. ... Layne made a remarkable rise through the ranks in the masculine world of surfing: at the young age of 16 she became professional, and by the age of 20 she already ranked sixth in the world.
- Mark King
Mark King (born 28 March, 1974) is a professional snooker player. King has never quite reached the top echelons of snooker. He has never won a ranking tournament, his closest attempt being runner-up in the 1997 Regal Welsh Open and the 2004 Irish Masters. In 2003 a poor season saw him drop out of the top 16, at which point he declared that he would "never set foot on a snooker table again", although he has since changed his mind and has not retired from the game.
- Dennis Taylor
Dennis Taylor ("recte" Denis), born January 19 1949 in Coalisland, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, is a retired snooker player, and current BBC snooker commentator. Taylor is well known for his sense of humour and his trademark over-sized glasses. Winner of two ranking events, he is best known for winning the 1985 World Championship, beating the then seemingly invincible Steve Davis on the final black in one of the sport's greatest finals.
- John Lowe
John Lowe (born in New Tupton, Derbyshire on 21 July 1945) was one of the main competitors who made darts such a huge spectator sport in the 1970s and 1980s. Lowe won the World Championship title in three different decades - 1979, 1987 and 1993. Though seen as very much a bridesmaid figure behind Eric Bristow in the early days of darts' rise to prominence, he was also regarded as the gentleman of the game. Lowe achieved the ultimate feat in darts on October 13, …
- Jan Timman
Jan Timman is a Dutch chessplayer who had his greatest successes in the 1970s and 1980s. He has won the Dutch Chess Championship nine times. He was a candidate for the World Championship several times. He played for the FIDE World Championship in 1993, losing to Anatoly Karpov. In the 1980s and early 1990s he was considered to be the best non-Soviet player and known as "The Best of the West".
- David Gray
David Gray (born 9 February, 1979 in Lower Morden, Greater London, England) is an English professional snooker player. Gray turned professional in 1996, after becoming the youngest winner of the English amateur title in 1995. He first served notice of his potential by beating Ronnie O'Sullivan 10-9 in the first round of the World Championship in 2000, a match in which O'Sullivan scored 5 centuries and Gray 4. He won the 1998 Benson & Hedges Championship.
- Cliff Thorburn
Clifford Charles Devlin (Cliff) Thorburn CM (born January 16, 1948 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) is a retired professional Canadian snooker player. A former world number one, he reached three world finals and won one of them. He is well remembered for making a 147 break in the 1983 championship. His slow, determined style of play earned him the nickname "The Grinder". Thorburn's finest moment came in the 1980 World Championship.
- Ian McCulloch
Ian McCulloch (born July 28, 1971) is an English professional snooker player from Walton-Le-Dale, Preston, Lancashire. He turned professional in 1992, and is still searching for his first tournament victory. Like Barry Pinches he has entered his best form in his early 30s. He beat David Gray to qualify for the 2003 World Championship in a clash between players who share their names with musicians, and went on to reach the quarter finals in 2004.
- Bruno Sammartino
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- Alan McManus
Alan McManus (born January 21, 1971) is a Scottish professional snooker player, known for his clever tactical play and safety shots, giving rise to his nickname "Angles" McManus.
- Dominic Dale
Dominic Dale (born Chris Dale, on 29 December, 1971) is a Welsh professional snooker player and occasional snooker commentator for the BBC. He has won one ranking tournament, the Grand Prix in 1997. His best World Championship performance was in 2000, when he reached the quarter-finals. Dominic has compiled 73 competitive centuries during his career. Dale's dress sense and hair styles make him one of the more eccentric players on the circuit.
- Barry Hawkins
Barry Hawkins (born 23 April 1979, Kent, England) is an English professional snooker. He reached the Top 32 in the rankings in 2004/2005, having reached the semi-finals of that year's Welsh Open, as well as 3 other last-16 results. In 2005/2006, he reached the semi-finals of the Grand Prix and the Welsh Open again, and also beat the high-ranked Ding Junhui to qualify for the World Championship for the first time.
- Randy Mamola
Randy Mamola (born November 10, 1959 in San Jose, California) is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He is considered one of the most talented riders never to have won a world championship.
- James Wattana
James Wattana (born January 17, 1970 as Ratchapol Pu-Ob-Orm) is a Thai professional snooker player. Wattana was a young prodigy, winning his first major tournament, the Camus Thailand Masters, in 1986, aged only 16. He turned professional in 1989, after winning the 1988 World Amateur Championship. His career peaked in the mid-1990s, when he twice won the Thailand Open and rose to number 3 in the world rankings.
- John Spencer
John Spencer (born 18 September 1935, Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, England; died 11 July 2006, Bolton, Greater Manchester) was an English professional snooker player who dominated the game in the 1970s along with Ray Reardon. Spencer was born in Radcliffe (now part of Greater Manchester, formerly districted in Lancashire). He started his snooker career at the age of 15. Snooker was in decline during Spencer's youth, and he did not turn professional until his early 30s, …
- Alan Warriner-Little
Alan Warriner-Little (born March 24, 1962 in Lancaster) is an English professional darts player. He currently lives in Crosby, Cumbria and plays with the nickname The Iceman. He is a former World Grand Prix champion, but in his long darts career to date has failed to win the biggest tournament of all, the World Championship.
- Fausto Gresini
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- John Virgo
John Virgo (born 3 March, 1946, in Salford, Lancashire, England) is an English former professional snooker player and more recently a snooker commentator and TV personality. John Virgo turned professional in 1976. His fortunes peaked in 1979, when he reached the semi-final of the World Championship, and then went on to win the UK Championship (though this was not a ranking event at the time). He reached number 10 in the rankings the next season.
- Craig Stevens
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- Michael Judge
Michael Judge is one of three professional snooker players from Republic of Ireland. Unlike Ken Doherty and Fergal O'Brien he has not won a ranking event, coming closest in the 2004 Grand Prix, where he reached the semi-finals. He has qualified twice for the World Championship, his best performance coming in the 2001 tournament, where he reached the second round, being knocked out by fellow Irishman Ken Doherty.
- C. J. Hobgood
Clifton James "C.J." Hobgood (born June 7, 1979) in Melbourne, Florida; is an Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Championship surfer. He entered his first surfing contest in 1989 and made the Open Boys final. He placed second in a national competition the following year. He won several other championships and in 1998 he was selected as the model for the new NSSA logo. In 2001 he won the ASP World Championship.
- David Taylor
David Taylor (born 29 July, 1943) is a retired English professional snooker player. He won the World and English Amateur Championships in 1968, before the success of those wins encouraged him to turn professional. Although an excellent player, Taylor never quite reached the very top of the game. His best achievements were reaching 3 major finals. The first was the UK Championship in 1978 (he lost to Doug Mountjoy 15-9).
- Andy Hicks
Andy Hicks (born 10 August 1973, Tavistock, Devon, England) is a English professional snooker player presently from Cornwall. Hicks, nicknamed "the Cream of Devon", is a World Snooker Championship semi-finalist and has been ranked in the top 20 players in the world.