WZema Abbey is an English former professional footballer, who played as a striker.
WValter Di Salvo is the director of football performance & science at the ASPIRE Academy and Qatar Football Association; he is also the executive director of the Aspire in the World Fellows program and the annual Aspire Academy Global Summit.
WSir Ludwig "Poppa" Guttmann was a German-born British neurologist who established the Paralympic Games in England. A Jewish doctor, who had fled Nazi Germany just before the start of the Second World War, he is considered to be one of the founding fathers of organised physical activities for people with a disability.
WArchibald Vivian Hill, known as A. V. Hill, was a British physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research. He shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his elucidation of the production of heat and mechanical work in muscles.
WSir Christopher Andrew Hoy, MBE is a British racing driver and former track cyclist from Scotland who represented Great Britain at the Olympic and World Championships and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games.
WDr. Yuri Ilichev was the coach of the national football teams of Iraq and Iceland.
WAlexey Valeryevich Kylasov is a Russian cultural anthropologist, Ethnosport theory author.
WKeith Lyons was an educator and sport scientist who specialized in the observation and analysis of performance in sport. He was the author of the first book on the use of video in sport. Lyons founded the Centre for Notational Analysis at the Cardiff Institute of Higher Education in 1992 with the help of John Pugh, Peter Treadwell, David Cobner and Sean Power. He moved to Australia in 2002 to take up a position as the founding Coordinator of Performance Analysis at the Australian Institute of Sport. He was the founding Director of the Institute of Sport Studies at the University of Canberra in 2009. Lyons blogged about his work in teaching, coaching and performance on the "Clyde Street" blog from 2008 onwards.
WTamara Ivanovna Manina is a retired Soviet Olympic gymnast and a sports scientist.
WTimothy David Noakes is a South African scientist, and an emeritus professor in the Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine at the University of Cape Town. He is also a member of the National Research Foundation, who list him as one of their highest-rated members.
WHermann Rieder (3 May 1928 in Altfraunhofen – 22 August 2009 in Gaiberg was a German javelin thrower, trainer and sports scientist.
WSir Clive Ronald Woodward is an English former rugby union player and coach. He was coach of the England team from 1997 to 2004, managing them to victory in the 2003 Rugby World Cup. He also coached the 2005 British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand, losing the test series 3-0. He is currently a pundit for ITV Sport, working on their coverage of the Six Nations and Rugby World Cup.