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) 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 Jackie Kid Berg, Junior Welterweight Champion (IBHOF), wore a Star of David on his trunks Roman Greenberg,Roman Greenberg site "the first Jewish world heavyweight champion in more than a quarter-century." Accessed 12 November 2006.Boxrec site "Hometown Finchley, England". Accessed 12 November 2006. IBO intercontinental heavyweight champion Gary Jacobs, Scottish, British, Commonwealth, and European (EBU) champion welterweight Ted "Kid" Lewis (Gershon Mendeloff), world welterweight champion 1915–16, 1917–19 Daniel Mendoza, 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 Charley White (Charles Anchowitz), lightweight boxer from 1906 until 1923
Cricket Mike Barnard, England, cricketer Mark Bott, England, cricketer Darren Gerard, England, cricketer Steven Herzberg, English-born Australian, cricketer Bev Lyon, England, cricketer Dar Lyon, England, cricketer (brother of Bev) John Raphael, England, batsman Fred Trueman, cricketer (Jewish ancestry)Jewish Chronicle 7 July 2006 p40: "T'fastest Jewish bowler ever"
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 Sheila van Damm, British rally driverOxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Sheila's upbringing in an all-girl Jewish family generated no interest in motoring beyond her training as a Women's Auxiliary Air Force driver."
Rowing Zoe De Toledo, Olympic medalist Josh West, American-born British, men's eight, Olympic silver, 2x World Rowing Championships silver and one bronze
Rugby league Lewis Harris, England, English rugby leagueEncyclopedia Judaica, Second Edition, volume 19, p 146
Rugby union Aaron Liffchak, England, prop, England national team Alan Menter, England/South Africa, national team John Raphael, Belgium/England, national team
Sailing Tony Bullimore, Britain, yachtsman"Bullimore's sister buoyed by rabbis' support", Jewish Chronicle 24 January 1997, p. 1 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 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 Sir Sidney Abrahams, Britain, Olympic long jumper Jo Ankier, Britain, record holder (1,500m & 3,000m steeplechase)The Jewish Chronicle David Jacobs, first British Jew to win Olympic gold. Harry Kane, Britain, Olympic hurdler
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, founder of the Paralympics David Pleat, former football manager Barry Silkman, footballer and agent David Triesman,, Foreign and Commonwealth Office former chairman of the Football Association
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