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First African-American baseball player to be named the Major League Baseball World Series MVP: Bob Gibson, St. Louis Cardinals [45] First African-American to join the Ladies Professional Golf Association: Althea Gibson; First African-American baseball player to be named the captain of a Major League Baseball team: Willie Mays, San Francisco ...
This is a list of notable Nigerian Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Nigerian American and must have references showing they are Nigerian American and are notable.
Pages in category "American sportspeople of Nigerian descent" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 204 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Ikenna Iroegbu (born 1995), American-born Nigerian basketball player for Hapoel Galil Elyon of the Israeli Basketball Premier League; Jayson Obazuaye (born 1984) Derek Ogbeide (born 1997), Nigerian-Canadian basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem in the Israeli Basketball Premier League; Nneka Ogwumike – Los Angeles Sparks; Emeka Okafor ...
The Alliance of Nigerian Organizations in Georgia is an organization that tries to satisfy the interests of the community, and represents all Nigeria nonprofit associations in the state (such as Nigerian Women Association of Georgia – NWAG-[65]), in tribal issues, ethnic, educational, social, political and economic.
Of the 32 starting kickers in the NFL in 2013, only one was black. In 2013, there were two African American punters, Reggie Hodges for the Cleveland Browns and Marquette King for the Denver Broncos. [1] In October 2018, George Taliaferro, the first African American selected by the process of the NFL draft, died at the age of 91. [52]
Louise Vivian Fulton (c. 1917 – May 7, 1988) was an American professional ten-pin bowler.A bowling pioneer, she was the first African American to win a professional tournament and was one of the first African Americans to compete in the women's professional bowling tour.
also: People: By occupation: Sportspeople: By nationality: American: Women also: People : By gender : Women : By nationality : By occupation : Sportswomen : American Articles on individual American sportswomen may be added directly to this category, but should be moved to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.