PEOPLE KNOWN FOR: sports and recreation
president of Chile
Sebastián Piñera, Chilean businessman and politician who served as president of Chile (2010–14) and was elected to a second term in December 2017. When Piñera was a baby, his family moved to the United...
American basketball player and coach
Doc Rivers, American professional basketball player and coach who, as head coach of the Boston Celtics, led the team to a National Basketball Association (NBA) championship in 2008. Rivers first emerged...
Russian chess player
Vladimir Kramnik, Russian international chess grandmaster who defeated his countryman Garry Kasparov to win the Professional Chess Association world championship. The match was held in London from October...
Norwegian chess player
Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player who in 2013 at age 22 became the second youngest world chess champion. Carlsen’s father first taught him how to play chess when he was five years old. He played in...
- animal training
- athletics
- automobile racing
- baseball
- basketball
- billiards
- boxing
- bullfighting
- chess
- collecting
- cooking
- cricket
- cycling
- diving
- fencing
- football (soccer)
- football, gridiron
- golf
- gymnastics
- horse racing
- ice hockey
- lugeing
- motorboating
- mountaineering
- rodeo
- rowing
- rugby
- skating
- skiing
- sportscasting
- swimming
- tennis
- volleyball
- weight lifting
- wrestling
- yachting