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
• 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

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30. David Triesman, Lord Triesman of Tottenham , Foreign and Commonwealth Office