Famous cricketers
Heroes of bat and ball. Ranked by how widely they are referenced across Wikidata.
Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild
British banker, scientist, intelligence officer and government advisor (1910–1990)
Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester
British peer, born 1822
Walter Monckton
English lawyer and politician (1891–1965)
Henry Grayson
British politician
Andy Goram
Scottish footballer (1964–2022)
Phil Neville
English football player and manager
Nevile Lubbock
English cricketer and President of the West India Committee
George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough
British politician
Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
British peer (1824–1904)
George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax
British politician (1716–1771)
John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever
English baron and newspaper proprietor (1886–1971)
Samuel Silkin
British politician and cricketer
John Manners-Sutton, 3rd Viscount Canterbury
British Tory politician and colonial administrator
Edward Knight (cricketer)
English cricketer
Blayney Hamilton
Irish cricketer, badminton and tennis player
Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham
English aristocrat; 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (1909–1977)
Keith Mitchell
Prime Minister of Grenada (1995–2008, 2013–2022)
William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley
English landowner and philanthropist (1817–1885)
George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry
British aristocrat, businessman, diplomat and Conservative politician
George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland
English peer, MP and cricketer
Charles Bowen, Baron Bowen
English judge
Stephen Lushington (judge)
British judge and Member of Parliament (1782–1873)
Denzil Onslow (British Army officer)
British general and politician
Arthur Smith-Barry, 1st Baron Barrymore
Anglo-Irish politician (1843–1925)
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William Kington
English cricketer
William Pember Reeves
New Zealand politician, cricketer, and historian
Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 7th Baronet
Scottish first-class cricketer and British Army officer
Charles Gordon, 10th Marquess of Huntly
Scottish peer and politician
Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, 2nd Baronet
British politician and judge
Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford
British politician
Henry Brand, 2nd Viscount Hampden
Governor of New South Wales (1841–1906)
William Lascelles
British politician
Ralph Benson
English cricketer and barrister
John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset
British courtier and diplomat (1745–1799)
Edward Pole
English cricketer
William Nicholson (distiller)
English distiller and Liberal Party politician
Robert Dillon, 3rd Baron Clonbrock
Irish peer (1807-1893)
Neville Bulwer-Lytton, 3rd Earl of Lytton
British military officer
Aarif Sheikh
Nepalese cricketer (born 1997)
Edward Stanhope
British politician (1840–1893)
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon
British politician and colonial governor (1866–1941)
Rowland Prothero, 1st Baron Ernle
Englishman (1851–1937) of various occupations
John Heathcote (cricketer)
English cricketer
James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose
British politician (1799–1874)
Thomas Twisleton
English churchman
J. R. Jayewardene
President of Sri Lanka from 1978 to 1989
Arthur Lyttelton
First Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge