List of British Jewish sportspeople

This is a list of notable Jewish British sportspeople. For other British Jews, see List of British Jews; for Jewish sportspeople from other countries, see List of Jews in sport.

Association football

Barney Aaron (Young), English-born US lightweight, Hall of Fame
Jackie Kid Berg, Junior Welterweight Champion (IBHOF), wore a Star of David on his trunks
Roman Greenberg, IBO intercontinental heavyweight champion
Gary Jacobs, Scottish, British, Commonwealth, and European (EBU) champion welterweight
Ted "Kid" Lewis (Gershon Mendeloff), world welterweight champion 1915Ã¢ÂÂ16, 1917Ã¢ÂÂ19
Daniel Mendoza, 18th-century heavyweight world champion, family relative of actor Peter Sellers and Mike Mendoza (talksport), radio and television presenter
Dutch Sam (Samuel Elias), boxing pioneer known as "The Terrible Jew"
Young Dutch Sam, bare-knuckle boxing pioneer
Sid Smith, world flyweight champion in 1913
Matt Wells, lightweight and welterweight champion, in 1911 and 1914
Charley White (Charles Anchowitz), lightweight boxer from 1906 until 1923

Allan Jay, British (ÃÂ©pÃÂ©e and foil), Olympic two-time silver, world champion
Edgar Seligman (1867Ã¢ÂÂ1958), British (ÃÂ©pÃÂ©e, foil, and sabre), Olympic two-time silver (ÃÂ©pÃÂ©e), two-time British champion in each weapon

Woolf Barnato, British racing driver, financier and cricketer, three-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans
Sheila van Damm, British rally driver

Zoe De Toledo, Olympic medalist
Josh West, American-born British, men's eight, Olympic silver, 2x World Rowing Championships silver and one bronze

Viktor Barna (born "GyÃÂzÃÂ Braun"), Hungary/Britain, 22-time world champion, International Table Tennis Foundation Hall of Fame (ITTFHoF)
Richard Bergmann, Austria/Britain, seven-time world champion, ITTFHoF
Benny Casofsky, English Swaythling Cup player
Jeff Ingber
Hyman Lurie, English three-time world bronze medallist
Irene Ogus, world bronze medallist
Ivor Montagu, Britain, national team

Angela Buxton, England, won 1956 French Women's Doubles (w/Althea Gibson) and 1956 Wimbledon Women's Doubles (w/Gibson), highest world ranking # <nowiki>9</nowiki>
Daniel Prenn, Germany and Britain, highest world ranking, #6

Harold Abrahams, Britain, sprinter, Olympic champion (100-metre sprint) and silver (4ÃÂ100-m relay) who was immortalized in the film Chariots of Fire
Sir Sidney Abrahams, Britain, Olympic long jumper
Jo Ankier, Britain, record holder (1,500m & 3,000m steeplechase)
David Jacobs, first British Jew to win Olympic gold.
Harry Kane, Britain, Olympic hurdler

Ben Helfgott, Polish-born British, three-time British champion (lightweight), three-time Maccabiah champion; survived Buchenwald and Theresienstadt concentration camps, as all but one other of his family were killed by the Nazis
Edward Lawrence Levy, Britain, world weightlifting champion; 14 world records

Noam Dar, Israeli-born Scottish wrestler
Fred Oberlander, Austrian, British, and Canadian wrestler; world champion (freestyle heavyweight); Maccabiah champion
Samuel Rabin, Britain, Olympic bronze (freestyle middleweight)