Sports Person Famous Names Starting with Letter C

Was a South African cricketer who played in fifteen Tests from 1948 to 1951.

Was a South African cricketer who played in fifteen Tests from 1948 to 1951.

Is a Mexican international football midfielder, who currently plays for Chicago Fire in the United S

Is a Mexican international football midfielder, who currently plays for Chicago Fire in the United States Major League Soccer division. After his contract with the Chicago Fire is up, Blanco has said he would like to return to Club AmTrica.Blanco is the only Mexican football player with an award in an international FIFA competition, as he won the Silver Ball and the Golden Shoe awards in the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup. He has been awarded the MVP of the Mexican First League Division five times. Although Blanco plays mostly as an attacking midfielder; he is tied with Brazilian football player Ronaldinho as the leading Confederations Cup goalscorer.

Is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Nanjing Yoyo.

Is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Nanjing Yoyo.

Is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Shandong Luneng. He scored the second goal with

Is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Shandong Luneng. He scored the second goal with a volley from 30 meters against Al-Ittihad (Jeddah) during Shandong's 7-2 loss second leg loss in the 2005 Asian Champions League.

Is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Guangzhou Pharmaceutical. Cui Wei began his clu

Is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Guangzhou Pharmaceutical. Cui Wei began his club career with the Beijing Guoan youth team in 1998 and was considered to be a rising prospect that was good enough to be loaned out to Eintracht Frankfurt youth team in 1999. Dai Lin started his professional football career with Liaoning Zhongyu in 2005 with his debut match against Changsha Ginde F.C. on the 14th of April in a 2-0 win.

Is a Chinese race walker.

Is a Chinese race walker.

Is an Australian cricketer. He is a leg-spin bowler, who represents South Australia in the Ford Rang

Is an Australian cricketer. He is a leg-spin bowler, who represents South Australia in the Ford Ranger Cup and Sheffield Shield, the Australian domestic cricket competitions. He represents the Sturt club in the Adelaide Grade Cricket competition. Along with fellow South Australian spinner, Dan Cullen, Bailey attended Westminster School in Adelaide where he was coached by Kim Harris, former assistant coach of the Southern Redbacks. Bailey is currently coached by Terry Jenner, the man who advised Shane Warne, and was thought to be a prospect to be the leg-spinner to follow the likes of Warne and Stuart MacGill into the Australian cricket team. He was given a national contract but some poor performances saw his contract not be renewed, and he was later dropped from the state team. To date, Bailey has played 21 first-class matches, taking 63 wickets at an average of 43.31, with best figures of 5/90.

He trains with David Marsh at the Center of Excellence at Mecklenburg Aquatic Club in Charlotte, Nor

He trains with David Marsh at the Center of Excellence at Mecklenburg Aquatic Club in Charlotte, North Carolina.He burst onto the international swimming scene at the 2006 Pan Pacific Championships[5] in Victoria, British Columbia. He was a student athlete at North Carolina State University, where he was an English major with a minor in Psychology. In the summer of 2006, he became a professional swimmer after signing with Nike.[At the 2006 Pan Pacific Championships he set a meet record in the 50m Freestyle with a time of 21.84. He also swam a leg (split of 47.96) in the world record breaking 4x100 m Freestyle Relay along with Michael Phelps,

A Vietnamese American kickboxer and mixed martial artist fighting out of San Jose, California who al

A Vietnamese American kickboxer and mixed martial artist fighting out of San Jose, California who also holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. He is the current Strikeforce Middleweight Champion.

Is a retired American professional basketball player and is the current head coach of the Missouri S

Is a retired American professional basketball player and is the current head coach of the Missouri State Bears men's basketball team.Cuonzo Martin attended Purdue University, where he played for Gene Keady and alongside with NBA star Glenn Robinson. The 6'6", 215 lb G/F helped lead the Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball team to consecutive Big Ten Conference Titles in 1994 and 1995 and an Elite Eight appearance. Martin held future NBA players Shawn Respert of Michigan State and Wisconsin's Michael Finley to their season lows in scoring as a senior. Known as the team's defensive stopper, he was also deadly beyond the arc. He left Purdue with the career 3 pt. treys record with 179 and the second highest 3 pt% at .469 percent.

Is a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. At the 1992 Winter Olympic

Is a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, he won a bronze medal in the four-man event with teammates Gustav Weder, Donat Acklin and Lorenz Schindelholz.

Is a former American professional football player. A versatile offensive and defensive lineman, he p

Is a former American professional football player. A versatile offensive and defensive lineman, he played college football at Arizona State University, and played professionally in the American Football League for the Kansas City Chiefs in 1968 and 1969, and for the NFL Chiefs, Oilers, and Lions. He was an AFL All-Star in 1969 and a six-time AFC-NFC Pro Bowler.

Is an amateur American skateboarder. He was born in Ventura, California, USA, on January 10, 1996. I

Is an amateur American skateboarder. He was born in Ventura, California, USA, on January 10, 1996. In 2010, at age 14, he competed in his first summer X-Games,[3] where he finished fourth in the Skateboard Park event. Caples is sponsored by Flip Skateboar

Is a former American ice hockey forward, who played in the National Hockey League as well as for the

Is a former American ice hockey forward, who played in the National Hockey League as well as for the United States national ice hockey team in the 1970s.

Is an American sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s. He was eliminated in

Is an American sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s. He was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-4 1000 m event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Eight years later in Atlanta, Bader was eliminated in the semifinals of the s

Is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. He began his riding career in 1984 at Evangeline

Is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. He began his riding career in 1984 at Evangeline Downs in Lafayette, Louisiana and won his first race later that year at Jefferson Downs Racetrack. During his career, Bourque has ridden six winners on a

Is a Danish chess player. He is the 1984 World Junior Chess Champion and has won the Danish Champion

Is a Danish chess player. He is the 1984 World Junior Chess Champion and has won the Danish Championship several times.Hansen became an International Grandmaster in 1985.

Is the current Assistant General Manager and Assistant Coach of the Calgary Roughnecks of the Nation

Is the current Assistant General Manager and Assistant Coach of the Calgary Roughnecks of the National Lacrosse League. Malawsky played for eleven seasons in the NLL, finishing his career as part of the Roughnecks' Champions' Cup-winning season in 2009.

Is a former 4-time State of Alabama amateur boxing champion, the 1994 International Law Enforcement

Is a former 4-time State of Alabama amateur boxing champion, the 1994 International Law Enforcement Games Boxing Champion (193 lbs.), and a current coach and trainer of amateur and professional boxers. McCune was named the most outstanding boxer at the 19

Was a Count and a German chess master who committed suicide by jumping out of a window in 1924. His

Was a Count and a German chess master who committed suicide by jumping out of a window in 1924. His life and death were the basis for that of the main character in the novel The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov. He edited the magazine Deutsche Schachzeitung from 1887 through 1891.

Is a former American football player, a running back. After playing collegiate ball at Penn State Un

Is a former American football player, a running back. After playing collegiate ball at Penn State University, he was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the first Round of the 1983 NFL Draft.

Is an American professional basketball player who has been playing for CB Granada in ACB in Spain fr

Is an American professional basketball player who has been playing for CB Granada in ACB in Spain from December 2005[1].A seven foot (2.13 m) tall center, Borchardt attended Stanford University, where he was an honorable mention All American as a junior in 2002. After that season, he left Stanford and was selected 18th overall in the first round by the Orlando Magic in the 2002 NBA Draft but was traded to the Utah Jazz. Injury prone in college, this continued as he sat out his rookie season. He made his Jazz debut in the 2003-04 campaign. He was dealt to the Boston Celtics as part of the largest trade in NBA history - a 13-player, 5-team deal on August 2, 2005. He was not included on Boston's roster in 2005-06 but played with them in the preseason, scoring seven points in seven games.

At Hawthorn, Victoria) umpired the historic first Test match played between Australia and England in

At Hawthorn, Victoria) umpired the historic first Test match played between Australia and England in Melbourne on 15 March to 19 March 1877. His colleague was Richard Terry. As a player, Reid was a left-hand batsman and right-arm bowler who played three matches for Victoria from 1869 to 1871. He took 16 wickets at an average of 10.87, with best figures of 6 for 5. Less successful with the bat, he scored 12 runs in 5 innings.

Is a former international breaststroke and medley swimmer from Canada, who competed at three consecu

Is a former international breaststroke and medley swimmer from Canada, who competed at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992 (Barcelona, Spain).

A right-handed major league catcher who plays for the Toronto Blue Jays. Thigpen can also play first

A right-handed major league catcher who plays for the Toronto Blue Jays. Thigpen can also play first base, second base, and third base. He spent his college career at the University of Texas and won the College World Series in 2002 during which he was named to the All-Tournament Team. Thigpen was selected by the Blue Jays in the second round of the 2004 Major League Baseball Draft with the 57th overall pick.In 2007, he started the season playing for the Syracuse Chiefs, the Triple-A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays. He was called up from the minors on June 5, 2007, and made his major league debut on June 6, 2007, at Rogers Centre in Toronto against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, when he went 1-4 playing playing first base.