- Paul Sunderland
Paul Benedict Sunderland (born March 29, 1952) is an American sportscaster based in Los Angeles, California. Over his broadcast career, Sunderland has covered almost every major sport played in Southern California. He has been a studio host for the local affiliate of Fox Sports Net, was the analyst for professional beach volleyball on both FSN and NBC, and has called Olympic sports and the NBA for NBC.
- Alan Sunderland
Alan Sunderland is an English former football player. Sunderland was born in Conisbrough, Yorkshire, and began his career at Wolves in 1970; initially a midfielder, he eventually switched positions to centre forward. He made over 200 appearance for the Midlands side, and won the League Cup in 1974 and the Second Division in 1977. In November 1977 he joined Arsenal for £220,000 and immediately became a regular, …
- Jon Sunderland
Jonathan Sunderland (born November 2, 1975 in Newcastle) is an English professional football player. He plays as a midfielder.
- John Sunderland
Sir John Michael Sunderland is a British businessman who was President of the Confederation of British Industry from 2004 to 2006, where his priority was restoring confidence in business after a series of corporate scandals. He is non-executive Chairman of Cadbury Schweppes and was previously the company's Chief Executive rom 1886 to 2003. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts and was knighted in the Queen's birthday honours list 2006, for services to business.
- Harry Sunderland
Harry Sunderland (born 23 November, 1889 in Gympie, Queensland, died 15 January, 1964 in Chorlton upon Medlock, Manchester) was an Australian rugby league football administrator and journalist. From 1913 to 1922 Sunderland was the Queensland Rugby League's secretary. His administration is credited with the growth of the League in Queensland despite the First World War. However towards the end of his tenure with the QRL, …
- John William Sunderland
John William Sunderland ("c." 1896 - 24 November 1945) was an English Labour Party politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Preston at the July 1945 general election, but died in office only 4 months later.
- Andy Gray
Andrew David Gray (born November 15 1977 in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England) is a Scottish football player currently at Burnley F.C. He is the son of the former Scotland defender Frank Gray and nephew of Leeds United legend Eddie Gray. He started his career as a midfield player but later moved into a forward position. Andy began his career with Leeds United and has also played for Nottingham Forest, Bury, Preston North End, Oldham Athletic, Bradford City, …
- Paul Robinson
Paul Robinson (born 20 November 1978) is an English former professional footballer, who recently played for Horden Colliery Welfare in the Northern League Division One. Robinson is a much-travelled player, having featured for no fewer than a dozen teams in his career. Due to his frequent moving, he has only passed thirty league appearances for one club, during his time with Hartlepool United. Robinson was born in Sunderland and began his career as a trainee with Darlington, …
- Kevin Phillips
Kevin Mark Phillips (born July 25 1973 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire) is an English footballer who currently plays for West Bromwich Albion. He holds the Sunderland record for most post-war goals, breaking a record previously set by Gary Rowell. He has also had spells at Watford, Southampton and Aston Villa. His favoured position is centre forward alongside a target man, which was the basis for his success at Sunderland, …
- Dwight Yorke
Dwight Eversley Yorke (born November 3, 1971 in Canaan, Tobago) is a Trinidad and Tobagon football player. He currently plays for Sunderland A.F.C, having previously played for Aston Villa F.C. as his first club and most of his career, then Manchester United F.C., Blackburn Rovers F.C., Birmingham City F.C. and Sydney FC.
- Darren Ward
Darren Ward (born 11 May 1974 in Worksop) is a Welsh professional football goalkeeper currently playing for Sunderland. He joined Norwich in July 2004 from Nottingham Forest, looking to gain experience in the Premier League. Ward began his professional career with Mansfield Town before moving to Notts County, then local rivals Nottingham Forest. He had limited chances to make the number 1 jersey his due to the consistently high performances of Robert Green.
- Mick McCarthy
Michael Joseph McCarthy (born 7 February 1959) is a former professional football player who moved into club management with Millwall, the Republic of Ireland, Sunderland, and currently Wolverhampton Wanderers. He has also worked as a television football pundit.
- Peter Reid
Peter Reid (born June 20, 1956 in Whiston, Knowsley, Lancashire (Now Merseyside) is an English former professional football player, manager and pundit. In his playing career Reid played for Bolton Wanderers, Everton and QPR, as well as representing his country, after which he managed Manchester City, Sunderland, Leeds and Coventry. He currently works as a TV pundit and as a football agent.
- James Milner
James Philip Milner (born January 4 1986, Horsforth, England) is an English footballer playing for the Premiership side Newcastle United. He has previously played for Leeds United and spent periods on loan at Swindon Town and Aston Villa. Milner broke the record set by Wayne Rooney as the youngest ever Premiership goal scorer while playing for Leeds on 26 December, 2002, being just 16 years and 357 days old when he scored against Sunderland.
- Stewart Downing
Stewart Jason Downing (born July 22, 1984 in Middlesbrough) is an English football player, who currently plays for Middlesbrough, and is in the England squad. A natural left-footer, Downing plays on the left side of midfield in a traditional winger's role.
- Michael Chopra
Michael Chopra (born 23 December 1983 in Newcastle upon Tyne) is an English footballer playing professionally for the Premier League side Sunderland. A striker, he has previously played for Newcatle United and Cardiff City and has spent loan spells at Watford, Nottingham Forest and Barnsley. He has represented England at the Under-15, Under-16, Under-17, Under-18, Under-19, Under-20 and Under-21 levels. The son of an English mother and an Indian father, …
- Kieran Richardson
Kieran Edward Richardson (born 21 October 1984 in Greenwich, London) is an English footballer currently playing for Sunderland. He is a left-sided midfielder who is also comfortable playing in central midfield. He has also played at left back during Manchester United's 2006-07 injury crisis.
- Jonny Evans
Jonathan "Jonny" Evans (born 3 January, 1988, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a football central defender who currently plays for Premier League club Champions Manchester United. Evans progressed through Manchester United's football Academy, featuring in 2 of the clubs 3 games during the 2006 summer tour of South Africa, as well as domestic friendlies against Celtic and Preston North End. Evans also made a surprise appearance in the Amsterdam Tournament against Ajax.
- Liam Miller
Liam Miller (born February 13, 1981 in Cork) is an Irish football player currently playing for Sunderland. His favored position is in central midfield, although he can also play on the right-wing. Before earning his first full Irish cap, Miller was also eligible for the Scotland national football team through his Scottish father. He formerly played with his boyhood heroes at Celtic, …
- Dean Whitehead
Dean Whitehead (born January 21, 1982 in Abingdon, Oxfordshire) is a fast developing football midfielder. As a youngster he played for Abingdon Town F.C.'s youth team, before joining the YTS of his local league club, Oxford United. He progressed through the ranks at Oxford, developing a reputation as a tough-tackling midfielder with good passing skills. After playing for the club for around 5 seasons, …
- Carlton Cole
Carlton Cole (born November 12, 1983 in Croydon, London, England) is a football player who currently plays for West Ham United.
- Daryl Murphy
Daryl Murphy is an Irish football (soccer) player who is currently playing for Sunderland as a forward. He had a largely disappointing loan spell at Sheffield Wednesday last season where he failed to score a single goal and looked to be out of his depth before he was recalled by Sunderland. The 24-year-old Irishman signed a two-year contract at the Stadium of Light after completing a £100,000 transfer from Irish side Waterford United in 2005.
- Carlos Edwards
Carlos Edwards (born 24 October 1978 in Diego Martin) is a Trinidadian football player who currently plays as a midfielder for Sunderland.
- Julio Arca
Julio Andrés Arca is an Argentinian footballer, also former Argentinian Under-21 captain, currently playing for Middlesbrough. Arca's father was a bank manager. His Italian passport allows him to play in Europe without needing a work permit. Signed by Sunderland under Boss Peter Reid in 2000 from Argentinos Juniors with £3.5million five-year deal, while beat off competition from Newcastle United and Leeds United.
- Danny Collins
Danny Collins (born August 6, 1980 in Chester, Cheshire) is a footballer who currently plays for Sunderland as a defender.
- Dickson Etuhu
Dickson Etuhu (born 8 June 1982 in Kano) is an Nigerian professional footballer who plays for Sunderland. He attended St. Thomas the Apostle College in Nunhead. He is a strong, combative midfielder who has an eye for goal. His previous clubs were Manchester City ,Preston North End then Norwich City. He was very much a bit part player during Preston's successful season of 2004-2005, when the Whites reached the Play-off final. Despite his side losing to West Ham United, …
- Greg Halford
Gregory "Greg" Halford (born 8 December 1984, in Chelmsford, England) is a professional footballer currently with Sunderland.
- Anthony Stokes
Anthony Stokes (born July 25, 1988 in Dublin) is an Irish footballer, who currently plays for Sunderland. He normally plays as a striker. He is a current Irish Under-21 international.
- Ross Wallace
Ross Wallace (born 23 May 1985 in Dundee, Scotland) is a professional footballer currently playing for Sunderland. He started is career with Celtic where he played as a left midfielder but under former Manager Gordon Strachan he played at left back for the reserves and eventually the first team. Towards the end of the 2005-06 season, new signing Mark Wilson, replaced him at the Left Back position even though it is not his natural position.
- Grant Leadbitter
Grant Leadbitter (born January 7, 1986 in Chester-le-Street) is an English footballer who currently plays for Sunderland. Leadbitter's first professional appearance for Sunderland, the team he supported as a boy, came as a substitute in a League Cup defeat against Huddersfield Town in September 2003, though he has been at the club ever since 1993. For two years unable to obtain a regular first-team place at the club, he was loaned to Rotherham United in September 2005.
- Nyron Nosworthy
Nyron Paul Nosworthy (born 1980-10-11 in Brixton, South London) is an English footballer of Jamaican descent. He is currently playing as a defender for Sunderland in the Premier League. He is also known in many songs, including: you try to take the ball off nyron and he says a no, no, no. and... nuggsy for england.
- Stephen Wright
Stephen Wright (born 8 February 1980 in Bootle, Liverpool) is an English football defender, currently with Premier League side Sunderland.
- Gavin McCann
Gavin Peter McCann (born January 10, 1978 in Blackpool, England) is a combative midfielder playing for Bolton Wanderers who signed him from Aston Villa. He has one England cap to his name, playing against Spain at Villa Park in 2001. He signed for Aston Villa from Sunderland in 2003, who in turn signed him from Everton in 1998, where he was a product of their academy.
- Alan Stubbs
Alan Ross Farley Stubbs (born October 6, 1971 in Kirkby) is an English footballer who currently plays for Everton. He is an experienced central defender. His started his career at Bolton Wanderers, making almost 200 appearances for the club before moving to Celtic in May 1996. He won several medals with Celtic including the domestic treble and twice overcame testicular cancer. He joined Everton in July 2001.
- Anthony Le Tallec
Anthony Le Tallec (born October 3 1984 in Hennebont, Brittany, France) is a French football player, who plays as a forward or an attacking midfielder. He currently plays for Liverpool, but has spent much of the past few years out on loan. He was signed from Le Havre by Liverpool in 2001, along with his cousin Florent Sinama-Pongolle. This was after impressive performances for the French national youth team in the European Under-16 and World Under-17 Championships in 2001.
- 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.
- Stern John
Stern Christopher John (born October 30, 1976 in Trincity, Trinidad and Tobago) is a Trinidadian football player who currently plays for Sunderland He is a centre forward. John moved to the United States to attend Mercer County Community College in 1995. he joined the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer from the now-defunct New Orleans Riverboat Gamblers of the A-League for the 1998 season. John received a try-out with Crew based on the good word from his older cousin, …
- Russell Anderson
Russell Anderson (born 25 October 1978 in Aberdeen) is a Scottish football defender who currently plays for Sunderland in the Premier League. Anderson began his career with local club Aberdeen and broke through the ranks to make his debut in the first team in 1997, and scored his first goal for the club in 2000, in the 4-0 win over Hibernian. He went on to establish himself as a rock at the heart of the defence.
- Graham Kavanagh
Graham Kavanagh (born December 2, 1973 in Dublin) is an Irish international football player for Sunderland, having also played for Home Farm F.C., Middlesbrough, Stoke City, Cardiff City and Wigan Athletic. Kavanagh is well known for his hard tackling abilities as well as being able to add a creative dimension to his play. Nicknamed the 'Silver Fox' he has recently operated in a holding central midfield role, a slight contrast to his previous role at Cardiff, …
- Danny Simpson
Daniel "Danny" Simpson (born January 4, 1987) is an English football player who plays right fullback. He was born in Salford, Greater Manchester. As a youth he played for Parkwyddn A.F.C. in Eccles before being picked up by Manchester United. Simpson is a product of the Manchester United youth system, having come up through the ranks into the reserve squad in 2005. He has yet to make an appearance for the first team. In early January 2006 he was sent on loan, …