Category
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Ken Miles
Kenneth Henry Jarvis Miles was an English sports car racing engineer and driver best known for his motorsport career in the U.S. and with American teams on the international scene. He is an inductee to the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. As an automotive engineer, he is known for developing, along with driver and designer Carroll Shelby, the Ford GT40, the car that won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966, 1967, 1968, and 1969. Miles and Shelby's efforts at Le Mans were dramatized in the 2019 Oscar-winning film Ford v Ferrari.
Paul Manning
English cyclist
Laura Unsworth
British field hockey player
Carole Quinton
British athlete
Peter Wiersum
Dutch rower
Jane Sixsmith
British field hockey player
Stephen Clarke
Canadian swimmer
Diane Leather
British middle-distance runner

Pat Hughes
English tennis player (1902–1997)
Ray Smedley
British middle- and long-distance runner

Andrew Jordan
English auto racing driver
Riki Christodoulou
British racing driver
Luke Lennon-Ford
British sprinter