Field
Sports
21 figures, most prominent first.
Billy Crystal
American actor, comedian, writer, producer
b. 1948
Sandy Koufax
sat out the World Series for Yom Kippur
b. 1935
Bobby Fischer
American chess player
1943 – 2008
- GK
Garry Kasparov
Russian chess grandmaster and activist
b. 1963
Ron Wyden
American politician and educator
b. 1949
Mark Spitz
American Olympic swimmer
b. 1950
Hank Greenberg
Baseball outfielder
1911 – 1986
- JP
Judit Polgár
Hungarian chess player
b. 1976
Mikhail Tal
Soviet-Latvian chess player
1936 – 1992
- BG
Béla Guttmann
Hungarian football player and manager
1899 – 1981
Dara Torres
American swimmer
b. 1967
Emanuel Lasker
Greman chess player, World Chess champion
1868 – 1941
- MB
Max Baer
American boxer
1909 – 1959
Mikhail Botvinnik
Soviet chess player
1911 – 1995
Harold Abrahams
British sprinter
1899 – 1978
Wilhelm Steinitz
Austrian-American chess player
1836 – 1900
Samuel Reshevsky
American chess player
1911 – 1992
- ÁK
Ágnes Keleti
Hungarian-Israeli artistic gymnast
1921 – 2025
Barney Ross
United States Marine
1909 – 1967
- BL
Benny Leonard
American boxer
1896 – 1947
Alfréd Hajós
Hungarian swimmer, footballer, and architect
1878 – 1955