Famous cricketers

Heroes of bat and ball. Ranked by how widely they are referenced across Wikidata.

VR

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)

HG

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)

SS

Samuel Silkin

British politician and cricketer

John Manners-Sutton, 3rd Viscount Canterbury

British Tory politician and colonial administrator

EK

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)

DO

Denzil Onslow (British Army officer)

British general and politician

Arthur Smith-Barry, 1st Baron Barrymore

Anglo-Irish politician (1843–1925)

WK

William Kington

English cricketer

William Pember Reeves

New Zealand politician, cricketer, and historian

ST

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

RB

Ralph Benson

English cricketer and barrister

John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset

British courtier and diplomat (1745–1799)

EP

Edward Pole

English cricketer

WN

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

AS

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