Sports Person Famous Names Starting with Letter S

Is a retired Croatian footballer who played a defender.He started his career in his home town with R

Is a retired Croatian footballer who played a defender.He started his career in his home town with Rudar Mursko Središce, where he spent three years before moving to MTC Cakovec and starting his senior career in 1973. He spent one season and a half with Cakovec before transferring first to Dinamo Zagreb and later to Karlsruhe.

Is an Australian football player of Serbian descent, who is currently playing for the East Bengal in

Is an Australian football player of Serbian descent, who is currently playing for the East Bengal in the I-League.He doesn't know much about Indian football and came to know about East Bengal through his friend Mijin, a Serbian footballer who plays for Ma

Is an Indian first class cricketer. He is a left-handed middle order batsman and slow left arm ortho

Is an Indian first class cricketer. He is a left-handed middle order batsman and slow left arm orthodox bowler. He represents Kerala in Ranji Trophy. Nair was also the captain of the team for sometime. Nair holds the record for the highest individual scor

Is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-arm fast-medium-pace bowler and a right-handed tail-ender bats

Is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-arm fast-medium-pace bowler and a right-handed tail-ender batsman. A player of passion, he is noted for his exuberant and emotional behaviour, especially whilst appealing for and celebrating wickets. Such trademark behaviour has seen him frequently fined for violating the player conduct guidelines of the International Cricket Council. He is known to bowl at speeds mostly around 140kmph/88mph.

Is a German footballer of Serbian descent. In the 2008/09 season he is playing for SV Sandhausen.He

Is a German footballer of Serbian descent. In the 2008/09 season he is playing for SV Sandhausen.He moved to Germany at young age and has spent almost all his football career in Germany.

Is a Macedonian football player.Zaharievski began his career with FK Sileks. He also had a spell wit

Is a Macedonian football player.Zaharievski began his career with FK Sileks. He also had a spell with S.C. Campomaiorense in the Portuguese Liga.

Is an Indonesian weightlifter who competed in the women's 48 kg weight class at the 2000 Summer Oly

Is an Indonesian weightlifter who competed in the women's 48 kg weight class at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal, lifting 182.5 kg in total.

Was an Indian cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played f

Was an Indian cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Andhra. He was born in Guntur. Rao made a single first-class appearance for the side, during the 1959–60 season, against Mysore.

Was a Sri Lankan cricketer who played in 2 Tests and 5 ODIs from 1983 to 1988.

Was a Sri Lankan cricketer who played in 2 Tests and 5 ODIs from 1983 to 1988.

Is a former Indian cricketer who played first class cricket for the Tamil Nadu cricket team. A left-

Is a former Indian cricketer who played first class cricket for the Tamil Nadu cricket team. A left-handed batsman, in 134 first class matches he made 8390 runs at 51.47 with 27 hundreds, making him one of the most prolific batsmen in Indian domestic cric

Is an Indian cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a left-arm orthodox spin bowler. Currently,

Is an Indian cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a left-arm orthodox spin bowler. Currently, he plays in the Indian Premier League. Sriram started his cricketing career as a left-arm spinner and took 29 wickets on India's Under-19 tour of South Afr

Is a 13-year-old chess prodigy from Chennai, India. His talent in chess was recognized when he beat

Is a 13-year-old chess prodigy from Chennai, India. His talent in chess was recognized when he beat his father in a chess game at the age of five.Srinath became the youngest FIDE rated chess player in India in 2002. In July 2005, he won the under-12 world

A tennis player from India and has represented the country in the Davis Cup[1]. He reached one ATP d

A tennis player from India and has represented the country in the Davis Cup[1]. He reached one ATP doubles final partnering fellow Indian Saurav Panja at the 2000 Chennai Open but lost 7–5, 6–1 to Julien Boutter and Christophe Rochus.

Was an Indian cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler who played for

Was an Indian cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler who played for Maharashtra. Wayangankar made a single first-class appearance for the side, during the 1963-64 season, against Baroda.

An off spin bowler, he was one of the famed Indian quartet of spin bowlers in the 1970s (the others

An off spin bowler, he was one of the famed Indian quartet of spin bowlers in the 1970s (the others being Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, Bishen Bedi and Erapalli Prasanna). He was also an excellent close in fielder and a useful tail end bat. Venkat burst on the test scene at the age of 20 when he was selected to play against the touring New Zealand side. By the end of the series he had emerged as a world class spinner, taking 12 wickets in the Delhi test that led India to victory. He was the vice captain of the Indian team that toured the West Indies and England in 1970-71. India won both series and created history in the process. Venkat played an important role, claiming five wickets in the Trinidad test and 13 wickets in the three tests in England. He captained India in both the 1975 and 1979 World Cup competitions. He also led India in a four test series against England in 1979. In domestic cricket, he led South Zone and Tamil Nadu for over a decade.

Was an Indian middle distance runner.Sriram Singh joined Rajputana Rifles in 1968 where he came unde

Was an Indian middle distance runner.Sriram Singh joined Rajputana Rifles in 1968 where he came under the influence of the coach Ilyas Babar. Babar persuaded him to shift his focus from 400m to 800m.In the 1970 Asian Games in Bangkok, he was beaten to the second place in the 800 by Jimmy Crampton of Burma. Singh went out in the heats in the Munich Olympics in 1972 but his time of 1:47.7 bettered Crampton's Asian record. He improved it to 1:47.6 while winning the gold in the Teheran Asian Games of 1974.

Sohoni toured England in 1946 and Australia in 1947/48 with the Indian team. He opened the bowling a

Sohoni toured England in 1946 and Australia in 1947/48 with the Indian team. He opened the bowling against England is the two Tests that he played in the former tour, though he was hardly quick. At Old Trafford the last wicket partnership of Dattaram Hindlekar and Sohoni hung around for 13 minutes to avoid a defeat. [2]

Was an American professional boxer who won the World Boxing Council cruiserweight title in 1982. Gor

Was an American professional boxer who won the World Boxing Council cruiserweight title in 1982. Gordon became a professional boxer in 1977. He faced undefeated heavyweight prospect Gerry Cooney in 1978 but lost via a fourth-round disqualification.

Is a Norwegian snowboarder, from the town of Rykkinn in Bærum, Norway. He competes for the club BSK

Is a Norwegian snowboarder, from the town of Rykkinn in Bærum, Norway. He competes for the club BSK Snowboard, and Norges Toppidrettsgymnas of Geilo (NTG). He represented Norway at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and was the youngest Norwegian to g

American basketball player.He played collegiately for the Iowa State University.

American basketball player.He played collegiately for the Iowa State University.

Is a field hockey midfielder from New Zealand, who made her international debut for the national tea

Is a field hockey midfielder from New Zealand, who made her international debut for the national team in 2003 at a three nations tournament in Japan. The Cantabrian has since developed into a solid and valuable midfielder for The Black Sticks ever since,

Is a former Canadian basketball player and a current host on the NFL Network. When she was with Wash

Is a former Canadian basketball player and a current host on the NFL Network. When she was with Washington, she was diagnosed with Raynaud's phenomenon in her hands. On April 5, 2008, Dales announced her retirement from the WNBA for the second time.

Was a wide receiver in the NFL. He played for the Atlanta Falcons throughout his whole career.

Was a wide receiver in the NFL. He played for the Atlanta Falcons throughout his whole career.

Is an elite member of the U.S. Ski Team's alpine skiing program. Cook started skiing at 4 with her f

Is an elite member of the U.S. Ski Team's alpine skiing program. Cook started skiing at 4 with her father at various Lake Tahoe ski areas and raced in the learn-to-race Buddy Werner League events run by the Truckee-Donner Recreation and Park District. She

Is a British pair skater. She competes with David King. They are the 2006-2010 British national cham

Is a British pair skater. She competes with David King. They are the 2006-2010 British national champions. Kemp & King changed coaches in the summer of 2007 and moved to Poland to train under Mariusz and Dorota Siudek.