1947 In Sports ,
Other Events Of 1948 ,
1949 In Sports and the
List Of 'years In Sports' .
- January 1 — Dick Quax , Dutch-born New Zealand runner
- January 9 — Jan Tomaszewski , Polish football goalkeeper
- January 11 — Madeline Manning , American athlete
- January 12 — Brendan Foster , British distance runner
- January 14 — Valery Kharlamov , Soviet ice hockey player (d. 1981 )
- February 1 — Douglas Golder , Australian field hockey player
- March 20 — Bobby Orr , Hall of fame ice hockey player
- April 5 — Wolfgang Strödter , German field hockey player
- April 17 — Pekka Vasala , Finnish middle-distance athlete
- April 24 — Eddie James Hart , American track and field athlete
- April 29 — John Christensen , New Zealand field hockey player
- May 11 — Alfred Matt , Austrian slalom skier
- May 14 — Bob Woolmer , cricket coach
- May 15 — Peter Hussing , German heavyweight boxer
- June 6 — Barry Maister , New Zealand field hockey player
- June 13 — Garnet "Ace" Bailey , ice hockey player/scout (d. 2001 )
- June 15 — Graeme Reid , Australian field hockey player
- July 13 — Alf Hansen , Norwegian double sculls rower
- July 15 — Enrique Basilio , Mexican hurler, first lady to light Olympic flame
- July 17 — Cathy Ferguson , American backstroke swimmer
- July 18 — Jim Watt , Scottish boxer
- July 26 — Norair Nurikian , Bulgarian bantam weight boxer
- August 5 — Tony DiCicco , US women's soccer coach
- August 7 — Greg Chappell , Australian cricketer
- August 10 — Pal Gerevich , Hungarian fencer
- September 3 — Ronald Harris , American lightweight boxer
- September 5 — Wayne Hammond , Australian field hockey player
- September 19 — Julius Sang , Kenyan runner (d. 2004 )
- September 19 — Nadezhda Tkachenko , Soviet pentathlet
- September 29 — Viktor Krovopouskov , Soviet fencer
- October 20 — Andrei Suraikin , Soviet figure skater
- October 22 — John Peterson , American middleweight wrestler
- November 2 — Victor Galindez , Argentinian boxer (d. 1980 )
- November 9 — Sharon Stouder , American butterfly swimmer
- November 17 — Jaime Huelamo , Spanish cyclist
- November 26 — Krešimir Ćosić , Croatian professional basketball player (d. 1995 )
- November 26 — Galina Prozumenschikova , Soviet backstroke swimmer
- December 2 — Jim Irvine , Australian field hockey defender and coach
- December 2 — Antonín Panenka , Czech footballer
- December 13 — Lillian Board , British track and field athlete (d. 1970 )
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