- David Lee
David Allen Lee (born 1943) played football for the former Baltimore Colts and subsequently retired from a career as a General Motors executive in Shreveport, the seat of Caddo Parish, in northwestern Louisiana. He accumulated several sports records in punting for the Colts in a 12-year career from 1966 until 1978. Lee was born to Roy Lee (1916-1994) and the former Hazel Braley (1919-2007). He grew up in the small town of Minden, the seat of Webster Parish, …
- John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones (born about 1890) was an American track athlete who set several world records in the mile, including the first mile record to be ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in 1913.
- Louis Garneau
Louis Garneau OC (born on August 9, 1958 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian road racing and track cyclist and cyclewear manufacturer. He is probably best known for putting his arm around Elizabeth II (breaking royal protocol) and having his photo taken. Garneau said: "I asked for a picture and she said 'no problem', so I just put my arm around her shoulder. In sport, we do that all the time.
- Channing Tatum
Channing Tatum (born Channing Matthew Tatum on April 26, 1980 in Cullman, Alabama) is an American actor and former model. After beginning his career as a fashion model, he has branched out into acting roles, appearing in the films "Havoc" (2005), "Coach Carter" (2005), "Supercross" (2005), "She's the Man", then "Step Up", and "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints", all of which were released in 2006.
- Lamont Jordan
LaMont Jordan (born November 11, 1978 in Forestville, Maryland) is a National Football League running back, currently playing for the Oakland Raiders.
- Fatman Scoop
Fatman Scoop born Isaac Freeman III is a New York City hip hop hype man and radio personality famed for his on-stage rough, loud voice. He is best known for the track "Be Faithful" with The Crooklyn Clan which went to number one in the UK and Ireland in late 2003 and top 5 in Australia. The song has been a favorite in clubs around the world for years but it took two years to clear the samples from Jay-Z, Black Sheep, Queen Pen, The Beatnuts and Faith Evans.
- Ryan Hall
Ryan Hall (born October 14, 1982 in Big Bear Lake, California) is is an American track and cross-country athlete.
- Robert James
Robert James (born July 7, 1947) is a former American Football defensive back who played six seasons from 1969 to 1974 for the Buffalo Bills in the National Football League. James was a three time Pro Bowler in 1972, 1973 and 1974. He ran track for Fisk College in Tennessee. James is currently a school administator at Riverdale High School in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
- John McDonnell
John McDonnell (born July 2, 1938) is the current head coach for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks track team. He began as the cross country track coach for the University in 1972 and became head track coach in 1978.
- Bradley Wiggins
Bradley Wiggins, OBE (born April 28, 1980) is an English professional track and road bicycle racer. He won three medals on the track at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The son of a professional cyclist, Gary Wiggins, Bradley Wiggins was born in Ghent, Belgium but grew up in Maida Vale, London. Following in his father's footsteps, he started cycling at an early age, racing at south London's Herne Hill Velodrome aged 12. At the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics, …
- Dathan Ritzenhein
Dathan Ritzenhein born December 30, 1982 in Grand Rapids, Michigan is an American track and cross-country athlete. He attended Rockford High School in Michigan and the University of Colorado in Boulder, and is arguably one of the greatest American hopes for distance running in the last 20 years.
- Winston Smith
Winston Smith is a Jamaican athlete who competed in the Men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
- Jim Ryun
James Ronald ("Jim") Ryun (born April 29, 1947) is an American former track athlete and politician, who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1997 to 2007, representing the 2nd District in Kansas. In the 2006 election, Ryun was defeated by Democratic challenger Nancy Boyda. Years prior to his political career Jim Ryun had an athletic career that saw him become one of the greatest runners of all time, …
- Dennis Christopher
Dennis Christopher (born Dennis Carrelli on 2 December 1955) is an American actor. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His breakthrough role was as Dave Stoller in the cycling classic "Breaking Away" (1979). Other roles include as an American track star in "Chariots of Fire" and "Fade to Black". He has appeared in nearly 40 movies and made-for-TV movies since 1975.
- Anthony Thomas
Anthony Jermaine Thomas (born November 7, 1977 in Winnfield, Louisiana) is an American football running back who plays for the Buffalo Bills of the NFL.
- Jamaal Charles
Jamaal Charles (born December 27, 1986 in Port Arthur, TX) is a running back for The University of Texas Longhorns. Charles is a speed back and has enough speed to compete in track at the collegiate level, yet he seems to bounce off tacklers like a power back.
- Baltimora
Baltimora was an Italian dance project which was popular in mid 80's and second half of 80's. Jimmy McShane, (May 23, 1957 - March 29, 1995) Northern Irish dancer and singer was chosen to be the frontman of the project. Although he was the frontman of the new wave project, the songs were written by Maurizio Bassi and Naimy Hackett, with some exceptions (McShane wrote the lyrics to the track "Survivor In Love").
- Julian Dean
Julian Dean (born 28 January 1975 in Rotorua, New Zealand) is a road racing cyclist who rides for Credit Agricole. Dean has rode the 2006 Tour de France and the 2004 Tour de France finishing both times. His other main achievements include winning the 2007 New Zealand National Road Race Championships, and finishing 9th in the 2005 World Road Championships in Madrid. This is one better than his 10th place finish in 2002 in Zolder.
- Merlene Ottey
Merlene Joyce Ottey (b. May 10, 1960 in Hanover, Jamaica) is a Jamaican-born Slovenian track athlete. Ottey began her career representing Jamaica, but since 2002, has represented Slovenia, where she now resides. She ranks at number four on the list of the all time female athletes on the 100 meters, and number three on the corresponding 200 meters list. Ottey holds the record for being the oldest track medalist ever, …
- Jason Phillips
Jason Wesley Phillips (born February 14, 1986) is an American football linebacker who is currently playing at the collegiate level for Texas Christian University. Phillips played quarterback and linebacker at Waller High School in Waller, Texas, where he was coached by his father, Jim Phillips. He also served as the Bulldogs' long snapper. As a senior in 2003, he threw for 1,070 yards and rushed for 1,291 to earn District 18-4A MVP honors.
- Lisa Stone
Lisa Stone is the head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers women's basketball program. Prior to becoming head coach at Wisconsin, she was the head coach at Drake University. In her coaching career, she has compiled an impressive 397-151 record. Prior to Drake, she built one of the top NCAA Division III programs in the nation at UW-Eau Claire. The two-time Division III national coach of the year and five-time Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) coach of the year, …
- Sandy Nelson
Sandy Nelson (born Sander L Nelson, 1 December 1938, in Santa Monica, California) is a famous drummer. His track "Teen Beat" rose to #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1959. Subsequently he signed with the Imperial record label, and pounded out two more Top 40 hits, "Let There Be Drums", which went to #3 in the UK Singles Chart, and "Drums Are My Beat". All three were instrumentals (a feat rarely repeated).
- Derek B
Derek B (born Derek Boland, 15 January 1965, in London). When he was 15, he started DJing in a mobile unit around London, before joining local pirate radio stations such as Kiss FM and LWR and finally starting his own station, WBLS (not to be confused with the radio station of the same name in New York). He joined Simon Harris' Music of Life as the closest thing they had to an A&R man. When a planned compilation of U.S. hip hop called "Def Beats 1" (Music of Life, …
- Greg Henderson
Gregory Henderson (born October 9, 1976 in Dunedin, New Zealand) is a professional track and road racing cyclist. His career highlights include becoming the 2004 world champion by winning the 15 km Scratch Race at the World Track Cycling Championships and (in road cycling) winning the points competition at the 2005 Tour de Georgia. In 2007, he rides for the T-Mobile Team. Henderson received a Bachelor of Physical Education from the University of Otago.
- John Juanda
Johnson Juanda (born July 8, 1971 in Indonesia) is an American professional poker player based in Marina del Rey, California. Juanda lives in Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Indonesia. John arrived in the U.S. in 1990, when he enrolled at Oklahoma State University. He earned an MBA from Seattle University. John was a high school track star for the 200 meter sprints to 5000 meter races. He had a stint as a door to door salesman selling Bibles.
- Katie McGregor
Katie McGregor (born September 2, 1977 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American track and cross country athlete.
- Lovefreekz
Lovefreekz is the alias of British House music producer / remixer, Mark Hatfield. In 2004 his single "Shine", a sampling of the Electric Light Orchestra's 1979 track "Shine a Little Love", became an international club smash and was a Top 20 hit on Billboard's Hot Dance Airplay chart in 2005. The track also reached Number 6 in the UK Singles Chart.
- Paul Manning
Paul Manning is a is a British professional track and road bicycle racer who rides for the UCI Professional Continental team Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner. He is strong in the Individual and Team Pursuit disciplines on track and has won many medals for Britain in the Olympics, Commonwealth Games, Track World Championships and Track World Cups. He was the British national individual pursuit champion in 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005.
- Michael Zager
Michael Zager (born January 3 1943, in Passaic, New Jersey) is a disco keyboardist and producer, who has also released singles as the Michael Zager Band. He was a member of Ten Wheel Drive from 1968 to 1973, and has worked with vocalists Whitney Houston, Peabo Bryson and Alvin Fields. Zager first hit the U.S. disco chart in 1975, when he assembled the studio project Love Childs Afro-Cuban Blues Band, (later shortened to Afro-Cuban Band).
- Lindsey Gallo
Lindsey Gallo (born November 29, 1981) is an American track middle distance athlete.
- Sabrine Maui
Sabrine Maui (born September 24 1980) is a Philippine born American pornographic actress. Maui was born in Manila, the Philippines. She was a bit of a tomboy while growing up in the Philippines, participating in lots of sports including track, tennis, volleyball and basketball. She moved with her family to Hawaii at the age of 15, where she graduated from high school by the time she was 17 years old. Maui started modeling when she turned 18 to pay for nursing college.
- Tim Dwight
Timothy John Dwight, Jr. (born July 13, 1975 in Iowa City, Iowa) is an American football player. Officially listed as a wide receiver, he has also been a prolific punt and kick returner for four teams in the National Football League (NFL), After excelling in both football and track at the University of Iowa.
- Michael Hutchinson
Michael Hutchinson (or Hutch) is an British racing cyclist (and writer) who has represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at various international cycling events including the Commonwealth Games. His speciality is the individual time trial, but he has also won important races on the track. He made an unsuccessful attempt on the Hour record which forms the basis of his 2006 book "The Hour".
- Quintin Mikell
Quintin Mikell (born September 16, 1980) is a professional American football player, a defensive back for the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles. Mikell joined the Eagles as an undrafted free agent out of Boise State University in 2003. He was a backup safety behind Pro Bowlers Michael Lewis and Brian Dawkins for the 2004 NFC Championship team and played in Super Bowl XXXIX. Mikell played high school football for the Willamette Wolverines in Eugene, Oregon.
- Nicole Reinhart
Nicole Louise Reinhart (June 3, 1976 - September 17, 2000) was a professional track and road racing cyclist who twice won gold medals in cycling at the Pan American Games. In 2000, at age 24, she died from injuries sustained in a bicycle racing accident.
- Michael Michele
Michael Michele Williams (born August 30, 1966 in Evansville, Indiana) is an American film and television actress. She is the elder of two daughters. Her father, Jerry, who is white, is an entrepreneur; her mother, Thersa, who is black, is a corporate manager. In high school she played volleyball and basketball, and ran track. She appeared in music videos, some of which were by R&B crooner Freddie Jackson. She is known for her role as Dr.
- Peter Norman
Peter George Norman was an Australian track star best known for winning the silver medal in the 200 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. His time of 20.06 seconds still stands as the Australian 200 metre record. He is a five-time Australian champion of 200m. The gold and bronze medalists were Americans Tommie Smith and John Carlos, respectively. On the medal podium, during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner", …
- Tony di Bart
Tony Di Bart (b. 1964 as Antonio Di Bartholomew) is a vocalist hailing from Maidenhead, England. He had a number one hit single in the UK Singles Chart, with a remixed version of his track, "The Real Thing" in 1994. The original version of the song reached #83 in the UK in 1993. Before his chart success, he had his own business "Cameo Bathrooms" in Slough and built his own studio above the shop.
- Tank Williams
Clevan "Tank" Williams (born June 30 1980 in Gulfport, Mississippi) is a National Football League safety who is currently a member of the Minnesota Vikings. He previously played for the Tennessee Titans. Tank attended Bay High School in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi where he played football as a safety as well as a quarterback. He also played basketball and ran track all 4 years in high school. He attended Stanford University.
- Jim Whitehead
James "Jim" Whitehead (born 1942 in Augusta, Georgia) is a Republican member of the Georgia State Senate and a candidate for U.S. Congress in Georgia's 10th congressional district's special election to replace the late congressman Charlie Norwood. Whitehead led in the June 19th, 2007, special election with 44 percent of the vote, but because he did not receive a majority of the votes cast, will face Paul Broun in a runoff election on July 17th, 2007.