Sports
Wimbledon Tennis Champions
Wimbledon, England has hosted an annual tennis tournament since 1877.
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Alice Marble
American tennis player who served as a spy during wartime.
- 1939 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Althea Gibson (born 1927)
American tennis player. The first black tennis player to achieve worldwide prominence.
- 1957-58 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Angela Mortimer
British tennis player.
- 1961 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Ann Jones
British tennis player.
- 1969 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Blanche Bingley Hillyard
- 1886, 1889, 1894, 1897, 1899 and 1900 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Charlotte Dod
- 1887-88, 1891-93 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Charlotte Cooper Sterry
British tennis player. The first woman to win an Olympic gold medal, winning the women's singles competition at the 1900 Games in Paris.
- 1895, 1896, 1898, 1901 and 1908 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Chris Evert Lloyd
American tennis player.
- 1974, 1976, 1981 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Cilly Aussem
German tennis player.
- 1931 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Conchita Martinez (born 1972)
Spanish tennis player.
- 1994 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Dora Boothby
- 1909 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Doris Hart
American tennis player.
- 1951 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Dorothea Douglass
- 1903-04, 1906 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Dorothea Lambert Chambers
British tennis player.
- 1910-11, 1913-14 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Dorothy Round
British tennis player.
- 1934, 1937 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Ethel Larcombe
- 1912 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Evonne Goolagong Cawley
Australian tennis player. Probably the most famous Australian Aborigine in history.
- 1971, 1980 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Helen Wills Moody (born 1905, died 1998)
American tennis player.
- 1927-1930, 1932-33, 1935, 1938 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Helen Jacobs (died 1997)
American tennis player.
- 1936 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Karen Hantze Susman
American tennis player.
- 1962 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Kathleen McKane ''Kitty'' Godfree
British tennis player.
- 1924, 1926 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Lena Rice
Irish tennis player.
- 1890 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Louise Brough
American tennis player.
- 1948-50, 1955 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Margaret Smith Court (born 1942)
Australian tennis player.
- 1963, 1965 and 1970 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Maria Bueno
Tennis player.
- 1959-60, 1964 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Maud Watson
Tennis player who won the first women's singles championship at Wembledon.
- 1884-85 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Maureen ''Little Mo'' Connolly
American tennis player. The first woman to get a Grand Slam, winning all four major tennis tournaments (U.S. Open, Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon) in the same year.
- 1952-54 Wimbledon tennis champion
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May Sutton
American tennis player.
- 1905, 1907 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Muriel Robb
- 1902 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Pauline Betz
American tennis player.
- 1946 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Shirley Fry
American tennis player.
- 1956 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Stefanie Marie ''Steffi'' Graf (born 1969)
German tennis player.
- 1988-89, 1991-93, 1995-96 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Suzanne Lenglen
French tennis player.
- 1919-23, 1925 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Virginia Wade
- 1977 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Martina Navratilova (born 1956)
Czechoslovakian-born American tennis player.
- 1978-79, 1982-87, 1990 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Billie Jean King (born 1943)
American tennis player.
- 1966-68, 1972-73 and 1975 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Martina Hingis (born 1980)
Czechloslovakian-born Swiss tennis player. Named after tennis legend Martina Navratilova.
- 1997 Wimbledon tennis champion
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Venus Williams (born 1980)
American tennis player, second African American lady Wimbledon champion
- 2000 Ladies'' Wimbledon tennis champion
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