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Peter McEvoy, outstanding golfer who became the first UK amateur to make the cut at the Masters
In 1989 he led the way as Great Britain & Ireland won the Walker Cup on American soil for the first time
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Brian Waites, last of the traditional golf-club professionals to represent Europe in the Ryder Cup
He caused upset when as a humble club pro he overcame the elite of Europe’s touring professionals to win the Tournament Players Championship
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Dick McTaggart, boxer who delivered a dazzling display to win Olympic gold in 1956
He won five ABA titles and one Commonwealth crown, and remains Scotland’s only Olympic boxing champion
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Fred Stolle, giant of Australian tennis who won 17 grand slam doubles titles
He won Wimbledon with Ann Jones and went on to a 50-year career as a much-loved commentator
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Joe Saumarez Smith, gambler, bookmaker, entrepreneur and well-loved head of British horse racing
He built a fortune in the nascent online betting industry and also became education correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph
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Ronnie Boyce, West Ham stalwart who scored the winner in the 1964 FA Cup final
He was known as ‘Ticker’ because he was the heartbeat of the Hammers
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Patrick Barclay, charismatic Sunday Telegraph football writer described as ‘a gifted storyteller’
His gregarious yet combative personality ensured that he was in demand for television shows such as Hold the Back Page and Sunday Supplement
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Dick Button, giant of figure skating who became a trenchant commentator and creator of Superstars
He performed the first double axel and first triple jump in competition and was credited with inventing the flying camel spin
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John Tudor, courageous Newcastle and Sheffield United striker admired for his prodigious leaps
Newcastle fans would celebrate his goals with a chorus of ‘John Tudor! Hallelujah, hallelujah!’ to the tune of Handel’s Messiah
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John Rowlinson, linchpin of BBC Sport who also ran coverage of Wimbledon and the 2012 Olympics
He had a 50-page dossier of stand-by material to broadcast during Wimbledon rain delays, including the 1981 Borg v McEnroe final tie-break
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Iris Cummings Critchell, swimmer who competed in Hitler’s 1936 Berlin Olympics
Young Iris ‘couldn’t miss the superior attitude’ of the German soldiers: ‘It was obvious even to a teenager that they were up to something’
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Tony Hallett, inspirational naval officer who went on to lead rugby union into the professional era
He secured a generous broadcasting deal for the domestic game and championed the idea of European club competitions
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Thelma Hopkins, sporting all-rounder who broke the world high jump record and won Olympic silver
‘Versatile and temperamentally perfect,’ she won 33 Northern Irish athletics titles and played hockey and squash for Ireland
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Denis Law, footballer whose talent was at the heart of Manchester United’s great side of the 1960s
He was named European Footballer of the Year and alongside Jimmy Greaves was the finest finisher of his era
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Peter Brown, rugby forward who led Scotland to three successive victories against England
Unusual as a high-scoring forward, he was unique in captaining Scotland to three wins in a row over the Auld Enemy
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Tony Book, full-back known as ‘Skip’ who steered Manchester City through their first golden age
When he joined his first League club Plymouth Argyle at the age of 30 he doctored his birth certificate to make himself appear younger
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John McNamee, rugged Scots footballer who put the wind up a young Alex Ferguson
He was one of Newcastle United’s ‘Big Bad Johns’, and Ferguson named him ‘the worst of these three frighteners’
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Sir Thomas Pilkington, Bt, senior steward of the Jockey Club, landowner and shipping chief
In Hertfordshire he knocked down his Victorian mansion to replace it with ‘arguably the most handsome country house built since the war’
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Hal Watts, ‘Mr Scuba’ who broke underwater records and set up diving’s first certification agency
He is widely credited with coining the sport’s maxim: ‘Plan your dive – dive your plan’
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Agnes Keleti, Hungarian Holocaust survivor who won 10 Olympic medals for gymnastics
Despite missing three Olympics in her prime, she went on, aged 35, to become the most successful athlete at the 1956 Melbourne Games
