List of British Jewish sportspeople
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This is a list of notable Jewish British sportspeople. For other British Jews, see List of British Jews; for Jewish sportspeople from other countries, see List of Jews in sport.
Association football
- Nick Blackman, Barbados International
- Chris Cohen, Assistant manager of Lincoln City and former player
- George Cohen, Fulham and England's 1966 World Cup team, full back
- Bradley Goldberg, England, forward
- Joe Jacobson, Wales, left back (Wycombe Wanderers)[1]
- Scott Kashket, England, striker for Sutton United F.C.
- Josh Kennet, England, midfielder/right back (Maccabi Herzliya)
- Mark Lazarus, England, right winger
- Tom Rosenthal.
Boxing
- Barney Aaron (Young), English-born US lightweight, Hall of Fame[2]
- Jackie Kid Berg,[3] Junior Welterweight Champion (IBHOF), wore a Star of David on his trunks
- Roman Greenberg,[4][5] IBO intercontinental heavyweight champion
- Gary Jacobs, Scottish, British, Commonwealth, and European (EBU) champion welterweight[6]
- Ted "Kid" Lewis (Gershon Mendeloff),[7] world welterweight champion 1915–16, 1917–19
- Daniel Mendoza,[8] 18th-century heavyweight world champion, family relative of actor Peter Sellers and Mike Mendoza (talksport), radio and television presenter
- Dutch Sam (Samuel Elias), boxing pioneer known as "The Terrible Jew"
- Young Dutch Sam, bare-knuckle boxing pioneer
- Sid Smith, world flyweight champion in 1913
- Matt Wells, lightweight and welterweight champion, in 1911 and 1914[9]
- Charley White (Charles Anchowitz), lightweight boxer from 1906 until 1923
Cricket
- Mike Barnard, England, cricketer
- Mark Bott, England, cricketer[10]
- Darren Gerard, England, cricketer[11]
- Steven Herzberg, English-born Australian, cricketer[12]
- Bev Lyon, England, cricketer
- Dar Lyon, England, cricketer (brother of Bev)
- John Raphael, England, batsman
- Fred Trueman, cricketer (Jewish ancestry)[13]
Fencing
- Allan Jay, British (épée and foil), Olympic two-time silver, world champion
- Edgar Seligman (1867–1958), British (épée, foil, and sabre), Olympic two-time silver (épée), two-time British champion in each weapon
Motorsport
- Woolf Barnato, British racing driver, financier and cricketer, three-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans[14]
- Sheila van Damm, British rally driver[15]
Rowing
- Zoe De Toledo, Olympic medalist
- Josh West, American-born British, men's eight, Olympic silver, 2x World Rowing Championships silver and one bronze[16]
Rugby league
- Lewis Harris, England, English rugby league[17]
Rugby union
- Aaron Liffchak, England, prop, England national team[18]
- Alan Menter, England/South Africa, South Africa national team
- John Raphael, Belgium/England, England national team
Sailing
- Tony Bullimore, Britain, yachtsman[19]
- Peter Jaffe, Britain, Olympic silver (yachting; star-class)
Table tennis
- Viktor Barna (born "Győző Braun"), Hungary/Britain, 22-time world champion, International Table Tennis Foundation Hall of Fame (ITTFHoF)
- Richard Bergmann, Austria/Britain, seven-time world champion, ITTFHoF
- Benny Casofsky, English Swaythling Cup player
- Jeff Ingber
- Hyman Lurie, English three-time world bronze medallist
- Irene Ogus, world bronze medallist
- Ivor Montagu, Britain, national team
Tennis
- Angela Buxton, England, won 1956 French Women's Doubles (w/Althea Gibson) and 1956 Wimbledon Women's Doubles (w/Gibson), highest world ranking # 9[20][21]
- Daniel Prenn, Germany and Britain, highest world ranking, #6
Track and field
- Harold Abrahams, Britain, sprinter, Olympic champion (100-metre sprint) and silver (4×100-m relay) who was immortalized in the film Chariots of Fire[22][23]
- Sir Sidney Abrahams, Britain, Olympic long jumper[24]
- Jo Ankier, Britain, record holder (1,500m & 3,000m steeplechase)[25]
- David Jacobs, first British Jew to win Olympic gold.[26]
- Harry Kane, Britain, Olympic hurdler[27]
Weightlifting
- Ben Helfgott, Polish-born British, three-time British champion (lightweight), three-time Maccabiah champion; survived Buchenwald and Theresienstadt concentration camps, as all but one other of his family were killed by the Nazis
- Edward Lawrence Levy, Britain, world weightlifting champion; 14 world records
Wrestling
- Noam Dar, Israeli-born Scottish wrestler
- Fred Oberlander, Austrian, British, and Canadian wrestler; world champion (freestyle heavyweight); Maccabiah champion
- Samuel Rabin, Britain, Olympic bronze (freestyle middleweight)
Other sports
- Ludwig Guttmann,[28] founder of the Paralympics
- David Pleat, former football manager[29]
- Barry Silkman, footballer and agent
- David Triesman,[30] former chairman of the Football Association