Flashcards: BBC Sports Personality of the Year winners

Robin Cousins (born 17 August 1957) is a British former competitive figure skater.

Sir Henry Cooper OBE KSG (3 May 1934 – 1 May 2011) was an English heavyweight boxer known for the power of his left hook, "Enry's 'Ammer", and his knockdown of the young Muhammad Ali.

Andrew Barron "Andy" Murray, OBE (born 15 May 1987) is a Scottish professional tennis player currently ranked world No.

Dame Kelly Holmes, MBE (Mil), DBE (born 19 April 1970) is a retired British middle distance athlete.

Sarah Virginia Wade, OBE (born 10 July 1945) is a former professional tennis player from Great Britain.

Paula Jane Radcliffe, MBE (born 17 December 1973) is an English long-distance runner.

Jayne Torvill, OBE (born 7 October 1957) is an English ice dancer.

Ann Shirley Jones CBE (née Adrianne Haydon; born 7 October 1938, thus also commonly known as Ann Haydon-Jones), is a former table tennis and lawn tennis champion.

John Surtees, CBE (born 11 February 1934) is a British former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Formula One driver.

Sir John Young "Jackie" Stewart, OBE (born 11 June 1939) is a British former Formula One racing driver from Scotland.

Jonathan Peter Wilkinson, CBE (born 25 May 1979), known as Jonny Wilkinson, is a former rugby union player who represented England and the British and Irish Lions.

Damon Graham Devereux Hill, OBE (born 17 September 1960) is a British former racing driver.

Nigel Ernest James Mansell, CBE (/ˈmænsəl/; born 8 August 1953) is a British former racing driver who won both the Formula One World Championship (1992) and the CART Indy Car World Series (1993).

David Peter Hemery, CBE (born 18 July 1944) is a British former track and field athlete, winner of the 400 metres hurdles at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Christopher Colin Dean, OBE (born 27 July 1958 in Calverton, Nottinghamshire) is an English ice dancer who won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics with his skating partner Jayne Torvill.

Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss, OBE (born 17 September 1929) is a British former Formula One racing driver.

Stephen Michael James "Steve" Ovett OBE (/oʊˈvɛt/; born 9 October 1955), is a former middle-distance runner from England.

Mark Simon Cavendish, MBE (born 21 May 1985) is a British professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Team Dimension Data.

Stephen "Steve" Cram CBE (born 14 October 1960) is a British retired track and field athlete.

Sir Bradley Marc Wiggins, CBE (born 28 April 1980) is a British professional road and track racing cyclist who rides for the UCI Continental team WIGGINS.

Jonathan David Edwards, CBE (born 10 May 1966 in London) is a former triple jumper.

John Anthony Curry, OBE (9 September 1949 – 15 April 1994) was a British figure skater.

Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton, MBE (born 7 January 1985) is a British Formula One racing driver from England, currently racing for the Mercedes AMG Petronas team.

Sebastian Newbold Coe, Baron Coe, CH, KBE, FRIBA (born 29 September 1956), often referred to as Seb Coe or Lord Coe, is a British politician and former track and field athlete.

Lennox Claudius Lewis, CM, CBE (born 2 September 1965) is a former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2003.

Linford Cicero Christie OBE (born 2 April 1960) is a former British Jamaican sprinter.

Steve Davis, OBE (born 22 August 1957) is an English former professional snooker player from Plumstead, London.

Sir Christopher Andrew Hoy, MBE (born 23 March 1976), known as Chris Hoy, is a British racing driver and former track cyclist who represented Great Britain at the Olympics and World Championships and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games.

Gregory "Greg" Rusedski (born 6 September 1973) is a British former tennis player who represented Canada until 1995.

Thomas Simpson (30 November 1937 – 13 July 1967) was one of Britain's most successful professional cyclists.

Sir Anthony Peter McCoy OBE (born 4 May 1974), commonly known as A.

Joseph William "Joe" Calzaghe, CBE (/kælˈzæɡi/ kal-ZAG-ee; born 23 March 1972) is a Welsh former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2008.

Sir Steven "Steve" Geoffrey Redgrave CBE DL (born on 23 March 1962) is a retired British rower who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000.

Douglas Alistair Gordon Pirie (10 February 1931 – 7 December 1991) was an English long-distance runner.

Ian MacIntosh Black (born 27 June 1941) is a Scottish former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in international competition, including the Olympics and European championships, and Scotland in the Commonwealth Games, during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Dorothy Hyman (born 9 May 1941) is a retired English sprinter.

Finbar Patrick McGuigan MBE (born 28 February 1961), known as Barry McGuigan and nicknamed The Clones Cyclone, is a retired Irish professional boxer from Clones, County Monaghan, Republic of Ireland who became the WBA and lineal featherweight champion.

Dame Mary Elizabeth Peters, CH, DBE (born 6 July 1939) is a former British athlete, best known as a competitor in the pentathlon and shot put.

(For the Real World contestant, see David Broom.) David McPherson Broome CBE (born 1 March 1940) is a retired Welsh show jumping champion.

Elizabeth McColgan-Nuttall MBE (née Lynch, born 24 May 1964) is a Scottish former middle-distance and long-distance track and road-running athlete.

Fatima Whitbread MBE (born Fatima Vedad; 3 March 1961) is a British former javelin thrower.

Mary Denise Rand, MBE (née Bignal on 10 February 1940) is a former English track and field athlete.

James "Jim" Charles Laker (9 February 1922 – 23 April 1986) was a cricketer who played for England in the 1950s, known for "Laker's match" in 1956 at Old Trafford, Manchester, when he took nineteen wickets in England's victory against Australia.

(For other people named David Steele, see David Steele (disambiguation).) David Stanley Steele (born 29 September 1941) is a former English international cricketer.

Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff MBE (born 6 December 1977) is an English professional cricketer and boxer.

Brendan Foster CBE (born 12 January 1948) is a British former long-distance runner who founded the Great North Run.

Sir Ian Terence Botham, OBE (born 24 November 1955) is a former England Test cricketer and Test team captain, and current cricket commentator.

Francis Morgan Ayodélé "Daley" Thompson, CBE (born 30 July 1958), is an English former decathlete.

Sir Christopher John Chataway (31 January 1931 – 19 January 2014), often known as Chris Chataway, was a British middle- and long-distance runner, television news broadcaster, and Conservative politician.

Sir Nicholas Alexander Faldo, MBE (born 18 July 1957) is an English professional golfer on the European Tour, now mainly an on-air golf analyst.

David James Rees, CBE (31 March 1913 – 15 November 1983) was one of the Britain's leading golfers either side of the Second World War.