This is a list of notable amateur and professional
snooker
Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sports, cue sport played on a Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, rectangular table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets, one at each corner and o ...
Khaled Belaid Abumdas
Khaled Belaid Abumdas (born 20 January 1987), also spelled Khalid, is a Libyan former professional snooker player. He is the first professional snooker player from Libya, competing on the main tour between 2013 and 2015.
Career
Abumdas won a ...
Subhash Agarwal
Subhash Agarwal (born 28 July 1948) is an Indian professional player and coach of English billiards and snooker. A National Snooker Champion of India, he was the runner-up in the 1983 amateur IBSF World Billiards Championship, losing to Michael Fe ...
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Khurram Hussain Agha
Khurram Hussain Agha (born 18 October 1976) is an international Pakistani amateur snooker player. A former Asia number three, he was ranked number one in the Pakistan Snooker Rankings for more than half of the decade 2000–2010.
Achievements
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Joven Alba
Joven Alba (born 24 August 1969) is a Filipino professional pool and snooker player. Alba was a professional pool player between 2009 and 2013, and having played snooker beforehand. Alba's biggest accomplishment was winning the team snooker even ...
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Shokat Ali
Shokat Ali (born 4 March 1970) is an English snooker player of Pakistani descent, who represents Pakistan in international tournaments.Gareth Allen
Gareth Allen (born 9 September 1988 in Mynydd Isa, near Buckley, Flintshire) is a Welsh former professional snooker player.
Career
Allen started playing snooker aged three, joining his local snooker club and playing on full sized table at twelv ...
Amine Amiri
Amine Amiri (born 30 March 1994) is a former professional Moroccan snooker player.
Career
Amiri played on the World Snooker Tour for the first time in 2019–20, after winning a gold medal in the African Games. His first match as a professional ...
Roy Andrewartha
Roy Andrewartha (23 April 1938 – 15 October 2020) was a Welsh professional snooker player.
Career
Born in 1938, Andrewartha lost in the 1976 final of the English Amateur Championship to Chris Ross. He played in the World Amateur Snooker ...
Au Chi-wai
Au Chi-wai ( Chinese: 區志偉, born 19 November 1969), sometimes referred to as Au Chi Wai or Chi-wai Au in Western media), is an amateur snooker and pool player from Hong Kong. In snooker, he won (with Marco Fu), the silver medal in the s ...
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Bai Langning
Bai Langning (, born 17 April 2002) is a Chinese professional snooker player.
Bai is one of eight Chinese players currently suspended from the professional tour amid a match-fixing investigation.
Career
Early career
Bai Langning was born in J ...
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Bai Yulu
Bai Yulu () is a snooker player, World junior champion from China.
Early life
Bai was born in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China in 2003.
Career Hong Kong World Women Snooker Masters
While Bai Yulu was round about 16 year-old in 2019, s ...
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Sam Baird
Sam Baird (born 17 June 1988) is an English former professional snooker player. He first entered the professional tour for the 2009/10 season, by winning the EBSA Pro-Ticket Tour Play-offs.
Career 2011/2012 season
Baird reached the main draw o ...
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Roger Bales
Roger Bales (born 15 August 1948) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Born in Birmingham on 15 August 1948, Bales first played competitive snooker in 1974, playing in that year's Pontin's Spring Open, a pro-am event, where ...
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June Banks
June Banks (born 4 March 1969) is an English snooker player. She was runner-up in the 2008 World Women's Snooker Championship,John Barrie
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Maureen Baynton
Maureen Baynton (born Maureen Barrett in 1937) is an English former snooker and billiards player. She held the record for winning most Women's Amateur Snooker Championships after winning eight times between 1954 and 1968, and also won seven Wo ...
Simon Bedford
Simon Bedford (born 8 February 1976) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Bedford's best performance in a professional ranking event was to qualify for the 1998 World Championship; he beat Gary Wilkinson 10–9, before l ...
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Bernard Bennett
Bernard Bennett (31 August 1931 – 12 January 2002) was an English former professional player of snooker and English billiards, whose career spanned twenty-six years between 1969 and 1995.
Bennett was a stalwart of professional snooker and ...
Bi Zhu Qing
Bi Zhu Qing (born 6 September 1988) is a professional pool and snooker player from China. She is best known as the winner of the WPA World Nine-ball Championship in 2011.Stuart Bingham
Stuart Bingham (born 21 May 1976) is an English professional snooker player who is a former world and Masters champion. Bingham won the 1996 World Amateur Championship but enjoyed little sustained success in the early part of his professional ...
Josh Boileau
Josh Boileau (born 2 July 1995 in Newbridge, County Kildare) is a former Irish professional snooker player. He is the 2016 Under-21 European Snooker Champion.
Career
In 2014 Boileau entered the EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships in B ...
Matthew Bolton
Matthew Bolton (born 7 July 1979 in Perth, WA) is an Australian billiards player. He is one of the most successful English billiards players of his country. Internationally, he is also successful as a snooker player where he became professiona ...
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Nigel Bond
Nigel Bond (born 15 November 1965) is an English former professional snooker player.
Bond competed on the main tour from 1989 to 2022, and was ranked within the world's top 16 players between 1992 and 1999, peaking at 5th for the 1996–97 s ...
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Emma Bonney
Emma Bonney is an English world champion player of English billiards, and snooker player. She has won the women's world billiards title a record thirteen times.
Emma Bonney is the only player to be ranked number 1 in the world at both snooker ...
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Alex Borg
Alex Borg (born 5 June 1969 in Mellieha) is a Maltese former professional snooker player. Borg currently resides in Mellieha, Malta.
Career
Borg first turned professional in 1991, and regularly appeared as a wild card in the Malta Grand Prix, ...
Luca Brecel
Luca Brecel (born 8 March 1995) is a Belgian professional snooker player. He won the European Under-19 title at the age of 14 and went on to break Stephen Hendry's record as the youngest player ever to compete at the Crucible Theatre. He made hi ...
Alec Brown
Alec Thomas Brown (born July 23, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for BC Budivelnyk of the European North Basketball League and the Champions League. He played college basketball at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay. Br ...
Paddy Browne
Paddy Browne (born 1 April 1965) is an Irish former professional snooker player.
Career
Born in 1965 in Dublin, in 1979 he won the Irish National U-16 Championship and was invited to appear on the BBC’s Junior Pot Black where Paddy he playe ...
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Ian Brumby
Ian Brumby (born 17 September 1964) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Born on 17 September 1964, Brumby turned professional in 1989. His first season brought a run to the last 32 at the 1990 Classic, where he defeated ...
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Shawn Budd
Shawn Budd (born 2 March 1974 in Sydney, Australia), is a professional snooker and pool player that has won major snooker and pool tournaments in Australia, New Zealand, England and America. He is the only Australian snooker player ever to win ...
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Alfie Burden
Alfred Burden (born 14 December 1976) is an English professional snooker player from London.
Career
Burden originally had his eyes set on making a career as a professional footballer, but a badly broken leg curtailed this ambition. He spent a c ...
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Jamie Burnett
Jamie Burnett (born 16 September 1975) is a Scottish former professional snooker player from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire.
A journeyman, Burnett was ranked within the world's top 64 players for 20 consecutive years between 1996 and 2016, reac ...
Vinnie Calabrese
Vincent "Vinnie" Calabrese (born 7 October 1987) is a former Australian professional snooker player from Campbelltown, New South Wales. He was based in Cambridge together with his compatriot Neil Robertson, although he has since moved back to ...
Marcus Campbell
Marcus Campbell (born 22 September 1972) is a Scottish former professional snooker player. He was ranked within the world's top 64 for 15 consecutive seasons.
Career
Campbell is most famous for whitewashing Stephen Hendry 9–0 in the 1998 ...
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Aaron Canavan
Aaron Canavan (born 10 August 1975) is an amateur snooker player from Jersey.
Career
He was the surprise winner of the 2018 World Seniors Championship, beating Dennis Taylor along the way.
He beat Patrick Wallace 4–3 in the final. He won £10, ...
Cao Xinlong
Cao Xinlong (; born 16 August 1981) is a former professional snooker player from the People's Republic of China.
Cao turned professional in 2013 after finished fourth highest ranked amateur on the APTC Order of Merit, winning a tour card for 2 ...
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Cao Yupeng
Cao Yupeng (; born 27 October 1990) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He won the 2011 Asian Under-21 Championship, thus qualifying for the professional main tour for the 2011–12 season. In his first season on the circuit, he reached ...
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Thelma Carpenter
Thelma Carpenter (January 15, 1922 – May 14, 1997) was an American jazz singer and actress, best known as "Miss One", the Good Witch of the North in the movie ''The Wiz''. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, the only child of Fred and Mary C ...
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Tom Carpenter
Tom Carpenter (born 31 August 1887, date of death unknown) was an English player of English billiards and snooker.
Biography
Carpenter was born in August 1887, to English parents, at Newport, Wales, and later lived in Cardiff. He started playi ...
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Stuart Carrington
Stuart Carrington (born 14 May 1990) is an English professional snooker player. He practises frequently with Steven Hallworth and Ian Glover in Grimsby.
In May 2011, Carrington qualified for the 2011–12 professional Main Tour as one of fou ...
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Ali Carter
Allister Carter (born 25 July 1979) is an English professional snooker player. He has twice been the World Championship runner-up, in 2008 and 2012, losing both finals to Ronnie O'Sullivan. He has won four ranking titles and briefly reached numb ...
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Ashley Carty
Ashley Carty (born 17 July 1995) is a former professional snooker player based in Thurcroft, Rotherham
Rotherham () is a large minster and market town in South Yorkshire, England. The town takes its name from the River Rother which then ...
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Billy Joe Castle
Billy Joe Castle (born 14 July 1992 in Marchwood, Hampshire) is an English professional snooker player.
Career
In May 2017, Castle came through Q School (snooker), Q-School by winning six matches to earn a two-year card on the World Snooker To ...
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Maria Catalano
Maria Catalano (born 27 February 1982) is an English snooker player.
Career
In the 2007 season she won the British Open and the Connie Gough National Championship. In December 2002, she was ranked number four in the world. She was ranked worl ...
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Paul Cavney
Paul Cavney (born 6 August 1967) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Cavney was born in 1967, and turned professional in 1991.
Having failed to reach the final stages of any ranking event in the first three seasons of hi ...
Harvey Chandler
Harvey Chandler (born 19 April 1995) is a former English professional snooker player from Northamptonshire.
Career
In August 2017, he came through three rounds of qualifying to play the main draw at the 2017 Paul Hunter Classic. He defeated Li ...
Manan Chandra
Manan Chandra (born 28 February 1981 in New Delhi) is an Indian amateur snooker and pool player.
Chandra reached the semi-final at the 2006 IBSF World Championships in Amman, Jordan
Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officia ...
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Chang Bingyu
Chang Bingyu (; born 8 August 2002) is a Chinese professional snooker player.
Chang is one of ten Chinese players currently suspended from the professional tour amid a match-fixing investigation. In January 2023, the WPBSA charged him with fi ...
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Bob Chaperon
Robert Chaperon (born 18 May 1958) is a Canadians, Canadian retired professional snooker and billiards player.
Career
Chaperon was born on 18 May 1958. He played snooker on the professional tour from 1984 to 1995, and in the 1998/99, 2000/01, 200 ...
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Tony Chappel
Tony Chappel (born 28 May 1960) is a former Welsh professional snooker player from Pontarddulais in Swansea, whose career spanned seventeen years from 1984 to 2001.
Career
Throughout his career Chappel produced some notable wins. Some of the ...
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Eddie Charlton
Edward Francis Charlton, (31 October 1929 – 8 November 2004) was an Australian professional snooker and English billiards player. He remains the only player to have been world championship runner-up in both snooker and billiards without winn ...
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Chen Feilong
Chen Feilong (born 4 September 1982) is a former professional Chinese snooker player, playing on the World Snooker Tour from the 2018–19 season.
Career
He has been awarded a two-year professional tour card following his performances on the C ...
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Chen Zhe
Chen Zhe (; born 28 February 1993) is a Chinese
former professional snooker player from Shanxi who won five matches at Q School in 2012 to earn a two-year card to play on the World Snooker Tour starting in the 2012–13 season. He is based in R ...
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Chen Zifan
Chen Zifan (, born 17 September 1995) is a Chinese professional snooker player who, in 2023, received a five-year ban from professional competition after committing match-fixing offences.
In December 2022, Chen was suspended from the profes ...
Rhys Clark
Rhys Edward Clark (born 17 September 1946 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a New Zealand drummer who, since moving to the United States in 1970, has played with such artists as Hoyt Axton, Freddy Fender and, most notably, Billy Joel.
Biograp ...
Darren Clarke
Darren Christopher Clarke, (born 14 August 1968) is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland who currently plays on the PGA Tour Champions and has previously played on the European Tour and PGA Tour. He has won 21 tournaments worldwide on a ...
Albert Cope
Albert Francis Cope (–1930) was an English professional billiards and snooker player. He played in the 1927 and 1928 World Snooker Championships. In his 1927 semi-final match against Joe Davis he scored a 60 break for which he later received ...
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Jamie Cope
Jamie Cope (born 12 September 1985) is an English former professional snooker player.
A finalist in two ranking tournaments, the 2006 Grand Prix and the 2007 China Open, Cope also reached the semi-finals of the 2011 Masters. He reached his h ...
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Gareth Coppack
Gareth Coppack (born 10 April 1980 in Rhyl) is a Welsh former professional snooker player.
He competed on the main tour for one season, between 2007 and 2008, but lost his place at the end of that season.
Career
Coppack first played compet ...
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Karen Corr
Karen Corr (born 10 November 1969) is a Northern Irish professional pool and former snooker and English billiards player. She was inducted in the BCA Hall of Fame in 2012.
Early life
Corr was born on 10 November 1969 in Ballymoney, Northern Ir ...
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Matthew Couch
Matthew Couch (born 30 June 1974) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
During a professional career lasting from 1992 to 2012, Couch had little success in ranking events, although he reached the quarter-finals of the UK Ch ...
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Sam Craigie
Sam Craigie (born 29 December 1993) is an English professional snooker player from Newcastle. He enjoyed a successful junior career before turning professional in 2011.
Career
Early career
Craigie qualified for the 2011/2012 Main Tour after ...
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Stephen Craigie
Stephen Craigie (born 19 June 1990) is an English former professional snooker player from Newcastle. As a junior, he won a number of tournaments and he secured his place on the Main Tour for the first time in the 2008–2009 season by winning ...
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Graham Cripsey
Graham Cripsey (born 8 December 1954) is a former professional snooker player and Wall of death rider. He turned pro as a snooker player aged 27 and was active as a professional From 1982 to 1996.
Early life
Cripsey came from a family of showme ...
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Jeff Cundy
Jeff Cundy (born 1 March 1969) is an English amateur snooker player, who spent a number of seasons as a professional between 1991 and 2007.
Career
1991 to 1997
Cundy turned professional in 1991, playing and losing his first match against Tim ...
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Jamie Curtis-Barrett
Jamie Curtis-Barrett (born 19 April 1984 in Grimsby, Lincolnshire) is an English snooker player.
Career
After playing snooker from the age of 11, Curtis-Barrett drifted away from the game after the death of his grandfather who had been a huge ...
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Dominic Dale
Dominic Dale (born Christopher Dale on 29 December 1971) is a Welsh professional snooker player and snooker commentator and presenter for the BBC and Eurosport.
Career
Dale was born in Coventry, England. He won the Welsh Amateur Championship, ...
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Brijesh Damani
Brijesh Damani (born 22 November 1982 at Kolkata, West Bengal) is an Indian professional snooker player. He won the 2008 Indian National Snooker Championship. He also won silver medal in 2010 Asian Games
The 2010 Asian Games (), officiall ...
Anthony Davies
Anthony Davies (born 2 December 1969) is a former Welsh professional snooker player.
Davies started playing snooker aged 12. He made his first century break made aged 15 and his first maximum break aged 17. After winning a number of titles in ...
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Paul Davies
Paul Charles William Davies (born 22 April 1946) is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, a professor in Arizona State University and Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He is affiliated with the Institute ...
Joe Davis
Joseph Davis (15 April 190110 July 1978) was an English professional snooker and English billiards player. He was the dominant figure in snooker from the 1920s to the 1950s, and has been credited with inventing aspects of the way the game i ...
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Mark Davis Mark Davis may refer to:
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*Mark Davis (talk show host), American radio talk show host
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Steve Davis
Steve Davis (born 22 August 1957) is an English retired professional snooker player who is currently a Sports commentator, commentator, musician, DJ, and author. He is best known for dominating professional snooker during the 1980s, when he rea ...
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Paul Davison
Paul S. Davison (born 1 October 1971) is an English former professional snooker player from Pickering, North Yorkshire. First earning a place on the World Snooker Tour in 1992, he played on the tour until 1997, and has since regained his place o ...
Joe Delaney
Joe Alton Delaney (; October 30, 1958 – June 29, 1983) was an American football running back who played two seasons in the National Football League (NFL). In his two seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs, Delaney set four franchise records ...
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Patrick Delsemme
Patrick Delsemme (13 September 1974 – 8 December 2022) was a Belgian snooker player from Liège. He has been named one of the greatest Belgian snooker talents ever.
Biography
When he was 17 years old, he finished second at the under-21 world ...
Corey Deuel
Corey Deuel (born November 20, 1977 in Santa Barbara, California) is an American professional pool player from West Jefferson, Ohio. Nicknamed "Prince of Pool", he won the US Open Nine-ball Championship in 2001, and has won many other major titles. ...
Ding Junhui
Ding Junhui (; born 1 April 1987) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He is the most successful Asian player in the history of the sport. Throughout his career, he has won 14 major ranking titles, including three UK Championships (200 ...
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Les Dodd
Les Dodd (born 11 February 1954) is an English former professional snooker player. He was runner-up in the 1987 English Professional Championship.
Career
Dodd was born on 11 February 1954 in Stockport, and turned professional in 1982. In his ...
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Ken Doherty
Ken Doherty (born 17 September 1969) is an Irish professional snooker player, commentator and radio presenter.
As an amateur, Doherty won the Irish Amateur Championship twice, the World Under-21 Amateur Championship and the World Amateur C ...
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Scott Donaldson
Scott Donaldson (born 19 March 1994) is a Scottish professional snooker player.
Donaldson turned professional in 2012 after winning the 2012 EBSA European Snooker Championship and gained a two-year tour card for the 2012–13 and 2013–14 ...
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Walter Donaldson
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Graeme Dott
Graeme Dott (born 12 May 1977) is a Scottish professional snooker player and snooker coach from Larkhall. He turned professional in 1994 and first entered the top 16 in 2001. He has won two ranking titles, the 2006 World Snooker Championship a ...
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Tony Drago
Tony Drago (born 22 September 1965) is a Maltese former professional snooker and pool player.
Known for his speed around the table, during his snooker career he won two professional titles: the 1993 Strachan Challenge Event 3 and the 1996 G ...
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Adam Duffy
Adam Duffy (born 30 March 1989) is an English professional snooker player.
Duffy qualified for the 2011–12 professional Main Tour as one of four semi-finalists from the third and final Q School event.
Career
Debut season
As a new player o ...
Kurt Dunham
Kurt Dunham (born 6 December 1991 in Somerset, Tasmania) is a former Australian professional snooker player.
Career
Dunham turned professional in 2016 as the Oceania nomination for the 2016–17 season. His two match wins during his first sea ...
Nick Dyson
Nick Dyson (born 19 December 1969 in Hessle, Hull) is an English former professional snooker player. He competed on the main tour over sixteen seasons between 1989 and 2006.
Career
Born in 1969, Dyson turned professional in 1989. In his first ...
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Martin Dziewialtowski
The 1997 Liverpool Victoria UK Championship was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place at the Guild Hall in Preston, England. The event started on 12 November 1997 and the televised stages were shown on BBC between 22 and 30 N ...
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Peter Ebdon
Peter David Ebdon (born 27 August 1970) is an English former snooker player. The winner of the 2002 World Snooker Championship, Ebdon won nine world ranking events, placing twelfth on the all-time list of ranking tournament winners. In addit ...
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Ray Edmonds
Ray Edmonds (born 25 April 1936 in Grimsby, Lincolnshire) is a former English professional player of English billiards and snooker. He twice won the World Amateur Snooker title, and won the World Professional Billiards Championship in 1985.
Pla ...
Basem Eltahhan
Basem Abdullah Eltahhan (born 17 August 1982 in Alexandria, Egypt) is an Egyptian former professional snooker player. Eltahhan turned professional in 2017 winning the ABSF African Snooker Championship, African Championship.
Career
In 2017, Eltahh ...
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Laura Evans
Laura Evans (born 27 August) is a Welsh actress and singer from Aberdare, best known for her role as Madison Square-Gardens in the popular BBC television children's show ''The Basil Brush Show'' and more currently known as a country blues si ...
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Reanne Evans
Reanne Evans (born 25 October 1985) is an English professional snooker player who competes on the World Women's Snooker Tour and the professional World Snooker Tour. She is the number one ranked player on the women's tour, and regularly featur ...
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Clive Everton
Clive Harold Everton (born 7 September 1937) is a sports commentator, journalist, author and former professional snooker and English billiards player. He founded ''Snooker Scene'' magazine, which was first published (as ''World Snooker'') in ...
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Patsy Fagan
Patsy Fagan (born 15 January 1951) is an Irish former professional snooker player. Having been runner-up in the 1974 English Amateur Championship, he turned professional in October 1976. He experienced early success with victories at the 1977 ...
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Fan Zhengyi
Fan Zhengyi (, born 27 January 2001) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He won the IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship in 2017, and turned professional in 2018. He had a breakthrough season in 2021–22 when he reached his first ra ...
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Fang Xiongman
Fang Xiongman (,born 9 April 1993) is a former Chinese professional snooker player.
Career
Fang began competing at professional events in 2012, which included Asian Tour events as well as wildcard rounds of ranking tournaments. His most notable ...
Leo Fernandez
Leo Fernandez (born 5 July 1976 in Limerick) is an Irish former professional snooker player.
Snooker career
Fernandez finished second on the PIOS Order of Merit in 2007 gaining promotion to the Main Tour for the 2007–08 season, although he fai ...
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Igor Figueiredo
Igor Almeida Figueiredo (born October 11, 1977) is a Brazilian former professional snooker player.
Career Amateur career
Prior to entering the PIOS tour in 2009, Figueiredo had only played on 10-foot tables in his home country. Despite this, hi ...
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Kacper Filipiak
Kacper Filipiak (born 19 November 1995) is a former Polish professional snooker player. He turned professional in 2011 after winning the European Under-21 Championship, and became Poland's first player on snooker's professional Main Tour. He was t ...
Allison Fisher
Allison Fisher (born 24 February 1968) is an English professional pool and former professional snooker player.
Biography
Fisher was born on 24 February 1968 in Cheshunt and grew up in Tonbridge, Kent and lived later in Peacehaven, East Susse ...
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Kelly Fisher
Kelly Fisher (born 25 August 1978) is an English professional pool, snooker and English billiards player.
Career
Fisher grew up in South Elmsall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. She learned to play pool in her parents' pub and took up snooke ...
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Mandy Fisher
Mandy Fisher (born in April 1962) is an English former professional snooker player and a World Women's Snooker Championship winner in 1984. Fisher founded the World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association (now known as World Women's Snooker) ...
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Mick Fisher
Mick Fisher (born 12 July 1944) is an English former professional snooker player. He appeared once at the main stage of the World Snooker Championship during his career, and attained a highest professional ranking of 37th, in the Snooker wor ...
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Jack Fitzmaurice
Jack Fitzmaurice (25 April 1928 – January 2005) was an English professional snooker player.
Career
Born in Solihull, Fitzmaurice was runner-up in the English Amateur Championship in 1958, defeated 8–11 by Marcus Owen in the final.
He tu ...
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Mark Flowerdew
Mark may refer to:
Currency
* Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
* East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic
* Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927
* Fi ...
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Robby Foldvari
Robby Foldvari (born 2 June 1960) is an Australian player of snooker, English billiards and pool. He is a multi-year World Billiards Champion (1986, 1997, 1998), and a national-level champion in both snooker (2006, 2008) and nine-ball pool (20 ...
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Tom Ford
Thomas Carlyle Ford (born August 27, 1961) is an American fashion designer and filmmaker. He launched his eponymous luxury brand in 2005, having previously served as the creative director at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. Ford wrote and directe ...
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Sue Foster
Sue Foster is an English former snooker player. She won the Women's World Snooker Championship in 1983.World Cham ...
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Geoff Foulds
Geoff Foulds (born 20 November 1939) is an English former professional snooker player. He is the father of fellow professional snooker player Neal Foulds.
Career
Born in 1939, Foulds turned professional in 1981 after a successful amateur car ...
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Neal Foulds
Neal Foulds (born 13 July 1963) is an English former professional snooker player and six-time tournament winner, including the 1986 International Open, the 1988 Dubai Masters and the 1992 Scottish Masters, as well as the invitational Pot Blac ...
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Danny Fowler
Danny Fowler (born 30 July 1956 in Worksop) is an English former professional snooker player.
Early life
Danny Fowler was born on 30 July 1956 in Worksop. Fowler played snooker recreationally from the age of 15 to 20, but then stopped playing ...
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Manuel Francisco
Manuel Francisco, who died in 2020 aged 84, was a South African professional snooker and billiards player who won the South African amateur Snooker Championship 6 times.
Francisco came from a snooker-playing family. His brother Silvino and e ...
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Peter Francisco
Peter Francisco (born Pedro Francisco; July 7, 1760 – January 16, 1831) known variously as the "India", the "Giant of the Revolution" and occasionally the "Virginia Hercules", was a Portuguese-born American patriot and soldier in the America ...
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Silvino Francisco
Silvino Francisco (born 3 May 1946) is a South African former professional snooker player, most notable for winning the 1985 British Open.
Snooker career
Francisco comes from a snooker-playing family. His brother Manuel and nephew Peter both ...
Marco Fu
Marco Fu Ka-chun, MH, JP (, born 8 January 1978) is a Hong Kong professional snooker player. He is a three-time snooker world rankings, ranking event winner, having won the 2007 Grand Prix (snooker), 2007 Grand Prix, the 2013 Australian ...
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Fung Kwok Wai
Fung Kwok Wai (; born 22 August 1977 in Hong Kong) is an internationally notable Hong Kong amateur snooker player.
Fung reached the quarter final at the 2006 IBSF World Championships in Amman, Jordan, where he was eliminated by ...
Roger Garrett
Roger Garrett is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Garrett turned professional in 1992. Prior to his joining the tour, he had notably compiled a total clearance directly from his break-off, scoring 140 at a tournament at ...
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Marcel Gauvreau
Marcel Gauvreau (born 9 January 1955) is a Canadian former professional snooker player.
Career
Gauvreau was born in 1955, and turned professional in 1983. He reached the last 32 at the World Championship at his first attempt in 1984, losing 5 ...
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Michael Georgiou
Michael Georgiou (born 18 January 1988) is a British- Cypriot former professional snooker player from Forest Hill. He is a practice partner of Igor Figueiredo and Hammad Miah, who practises at Whetstone Snooker Club.
In 2018, Georgiou won his f ...
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Mario Geudens
Mario Geudens (born 13 May 1975) is a Belgian people, Belgian former professional snooker player. He played on the World Snooker Tour, main tour over six seasons between 1993 and 2000, being ranked inside the top 100 for the 1998/1999 season.
As ...
Nigel Gilbert
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Surinder Gill
Surinder Gill (born 20 January 1968) is an English former professional snooker player who competed on the main tour in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Career
Born in 1968, Gill turned professional in 1991. He first made progress in a ranking even ...
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Ian Glover
Ian Glover (born 8 November 1978) is a former professional snooker player from Doncaster. He practises at the Jeff Cundy snooker centre in Scunthorpe and the Sheffield Star Snooker Academy. His practice partners are the club's owner Jeff Cundy, ...
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Rodney Goggins
Rodney Goggins (born 25 March 1978) is an Irish former professional snooker player from County Wexford. He competed on the main tour between 2004 and 2009.
Career
At the age of 21, Goggins won the International Billiards and Snooker Federatio ...
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Brady Gollan
Brady Gollan (born 28 March 1965) is a Canadian former professional snooker player.
Career
Born in 1965, Gollan turned professional in 1989 through the Professional Play-offs, the tour qualifying event at the time, where he beat Patsy Fagan 9 ...
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Martin Gould
Martin Gould (born 14 September 1981) is an English professional snooker player from Pinner in the London Borough of Harrow. He has appeared in four ranking finals and won one ranking title, the 2016 German Masters.
Career
Gould began his pr ...
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David Grace
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Robbie Grace
Robbie Grace (born 14 June 1954) is a South African former professional snooker player.
Career
Born in 1954, Grace turned professional in 1985, but the only tournament he entered that season was the 1986 World Championship. In his first mat ...
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Ian Graham
Ian James Alastair Graham OBE (12 November 1923 – 1 August 2017) was a British Mayanist whose explorations of Maya ruins in the jungles of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize helped establish the ''Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions'' publi ...
David Greaves
David Greaves (1 September 1946 – 5 October 2019) was an English former professional snooker player.
Life
David Greaves was born 1 September 1946 in St-Annes-on-Sea (Lancashire). In his early life he went to Stanley Junior School in Clev ...
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Joe Grech
Joseph "Joe" Grech, (born 9 February 1934) is a Maltese singer, who was born in Cospicua, Malta. He is best known for introducing the Maltese language to the Eurovision Song Contest 1971, the first appearance from Malta on this pan-European te ...
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Gerard Greene
Gerard Eamonn Greene (born 12 November 1973 in Chatham, Kent) is a Northern Irish professional snooker player. He represents Northern Ireland in international events, as his parents are from Belfast.
Greene has enjoyed moderate success in his ...
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Terry Griffiths
Terence Martin Griffiths (born 16 October 1947) is a Welsh retired professional snooker player and current snooker coach and pundit. In his second professional tournament, he became world champion when he won the 1979 World Snooker Champion ...
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Adrian Gunnell
Adrian Gunnell (born 24 August 1972) is an English former professional snooker player from Telford. He has reached the last-16 in four world ranking events (three in Asia, in three different seasons, and at the 2008 Grand Prix), but has yet to ...
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Guo Hua
Guo Hua (born 30 July 1971) is a Chinese former professional snooker player.
Career
The best result Guo Hua had was reaching the last 32 in the 1994 Thailand Open. In the round of wild cards, he defeated Dave Finbow 5-3, before losing 2–5 to ...
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Mike Hallett
Mike Hallett (born 6 July 1959) is an English former professional snooker player and commentator.
Career
Hallett was born in Grimsby on 6 July 1959. Having won the national under-16 title in 1975, he turned professional in 1979. His world ran ...
Ben Hancorn
Ben Hancorn (born 24 May 1982) is an England, English former professional snooker player.
Career
In 2008, Hancorn was the runner up in the English Amateur Championship, losing the final to David Grace (snooker player), David Grace. Following thi ...
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Bjorn Haneveer
Bjorn Haneveer (born 4 September 1976 in) is a Belgian snooker player and commentator. Haneveer, formerly a professional competitor, now plays at semi-professional level and also commentates on snooker matches for Dutch Eurosport.
Career
A six ...
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Quinten Hann Quinten may refer to:
People
Surname
* Christopher Quinten (born 1957), British actor Given name
* Quinten Burg (born 1948), American politician
* Quinten Hann (born 1977), Australian snooker player
* Quinten Hermans (born 1995), Belgian cyclist
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Dave Harold
David Harold (born 9 December 1966) is an English former professional snooker player from Stoke-on-Trent. He was known by the nicknames of "the Hard Man" and "the Stoke Potter" (conflating his home city's pottery industry and his profession of ...
Ruth Harrison
Ruth Harrison (; 24 June 1920 – 13 June 2000) was an English animal welfare activist and writer.
Biography
Harrison was born in London, the daughter of the author Stephen Winsten and the artist Clara Birnberg. She was educated at Bedfor ...
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Barry Hawkins
Barry Hawkins (born 23 April 1979) is an English professional snooker player from Ditton, Kent. He turned professional in 1996, but only rose to prominence in the 2004–05 snooker season, when he reached the last 16 of the 2004 UK Championsh ...
Louis Heathcote
Louis Heathcote (born 3 July 1997) is an English people, English professional snooker player.
Career
In May 2019, Heathcote came through Q School 2019 - Event 2, Q-School - Event 2 by winning six matches to earn a two-year card on the World Snoo ...
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Kristján Helgason
Kristján Helgason (born 27 March 1974) is an Icelandic former professional snooker player.
Career
Born in 1974, Helgason turned professional in 1995. In 1998, he reached the last 48 at the Irish Open, losing 3–5 to Billy Snaddon, but made n ...
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Euan Henderson Ewen, Ewan or Euan Henderson may refer to:
*Ewen Henderson (artist), artist
* Ewen Henderson (musician), fiddler and bagpiper
*Euan Henderson (snooker player)
Euan Henderson (born 30 June 1967) is a retired Scottish professional snooker player. ...
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Stephen Hendry
Stephen Gordon Hendry (born 13 January 1969) is a Scottish professional snooker player who dominated the sport during the 1990s, becoming one of the most successful players in its history. After turning professional in 1985 at age 16, Hendry ...
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Katie Henrick
Katie Henrick (born 21 July 1980), also known by her married name of Katie Martyn, is an English snooker and pool player. She was runner-up in the 2007 World Ladies Snooker Championship.
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Drew Henry
Drew Henry (born 24 November 1968) is a Scottish former professional snooker player, who spent five consecutive seasons of his career in the top 32 of the rankings, peaking at No. 18.
Career
A strong amateur, Henry won the 1988 Scottish Amateur ...
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Andy Hicks
Andrew Hicks (born 10 August 1973) is an English professional snooker player. Nicknamed "The Cream of Devon", Hicks was a semi-finalist at both the World Snooker Championship and UK Championship in 1995, and the same stage at four other ranking ...
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Alex Higgins
Alexander Gordon Higgins (18 March 1949 – 24 July 2010) was a Northern Irish professional snooker player who is remembered as one of the most iconic figures in the game. Nicknamed "Hurricane Higgins" because of his fast play, he was Wor ...
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John Higgins
John Higgins, (born 18 May 1975) is a Scottish professional snooker player. He has won 31 career ranking titles, placing him in third position on the all-time list of ranking event winners, behind Ronnie O'Sullivan (39) and Stephen Hendry ( ...
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Andrew Higginson
Andrew Higginson (born 13 December 1977) is an English former professional snooker player from Widnes, Cheshire. He is best known for being the surprise finalist of the 2007 Welsh Open.
Career
Early years
After some success in amateur tourn ...
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Liam Highfield
Liam Highfield (born 1 December 1990) is an English professional snooker player. He turned professional in 2010 after finishing second in the 2009/2010 PIOS rankings. He plays left-handed.
Career Amateur years
In the 2007/2008 season, Highfie ...
Stacey Hillyard
Stacey Hillyard (born 5 September 1969) is an English former professional snooker player, who won the 1984 amateur World Women's Snooker Championship at the age of 15, making her the youngest winner of the tournament. She reached the final of t ...
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Kishan Hirani
Kishan H. Hirani (born 2 June 1992) is a Welsh former professional snooker player.
Career
Hirani qualified for his first professional tournament in the 2017 Paul Hunter Classic, winning three matches. He played Chris Wakelin in the first round, ...
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Chandra Hirjee
Chandrasinh Hirjee Jewraj (1924–1989), known simply as Chandu to friends and fans and often referred to by the media as The Stylist, was an Indian
Indian or Indians may refer to:
Peoples South Asia
* Indian peo ...
Graham Horne
Graham Horne (born 10 June 1971) is a Scottish former professional snooker player.
Career
Born in 1971, Horne turned professional in 1991. He reached the last 128 stage of a number of ranking tournaments over the next four seasons, before a ru ...
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Lynette Horsburgh
Lynette Horsburgh ( ; born 1974) is a Scottish-English semi-professional, world champion pool and national champion snooker player, as well as an international-class player of English billiards. In sport, she represents Scotland. Outside sport, ...
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Pat Houlihan
Patrick Houlihan (7 November 1929 – 8 November 2006https://wst.tv/the-greatest-snooker-player-you-never-saw/) was an English snooker player. He was born in Deptford, London.
Houlihan turned professional in 1971 at the age of 42 after many ...
Robin Hull
Robin Hull (born 16 August 1974) is a Finnish former professional snooker player.
For some time, he was the sole Nordic player on the game's main tour. He is known as a solid -builder, having compiled over 150 competitive during his career, a ...
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Paul Hunter
Paul Alan Hunter (14 October 1978 – 9 October 2006) was an English professional snooker player. He was a three-time Masters champion, winning the event in 2001, 2002, and 2004, recovering from a deficit in the final to win 10–9 on a ...
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Mehmet Husnu
Mehmet Husnu (born 25 July 1972) is a Cypriot former professional snooker player.
Career
Born in 1972, Husnu turned professional in 1991, becoming the first Cypriot professional snooker player in the history of the game.
Husnu's career highl ...
Lisa Ingall
Lisa Ingall is an English snooker player. She was runner-up in the 2000 World Women's Snooker Championship.
Biography
Ingall started playing snooker at the age of 12, and by the age of 16 was practicing four hours a day after school, and for ...
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Melbourne Inman
Melbourne Inman (15 July 1878 – 11 August 1951) was the World Billiards Champion in 1908, 1909, 1912, 1913, 1914 and 1919.
Biography
He was born on 15 July 1878 in Twickenham, Middlesex, England, to Robert Withy Inman (1844–1919) and Annie ...
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Jaique Ip
Jaique Ip Wan-in MH (; born 15 January 1980) is a Hong Kong amateur snooker player.
Biography
Ip won the silver medal at the 2006 IBSF World Championships in Amman, Jordan, after she lost 5–0 in the final against Wendy Jans.
Wendy Jans
Wendy Jans (born 14 June 1983, in Bree, Belgium) is a Belgian professional snooker and pool player. She has won the IBSF World Snooker Championship for women seven times. She reached her first women's world final at the 2022 World Women's Snooke ...
Shailesh Jogia
Shailesh "Joe" Jogia (born 13 November 1975) is an English retired professional snooker player of Indian descent.
Early life
Born in Leicester, England in 1975, Jogia lived for a time in the Hertfordshire town of Letchworth, before returning ...
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Kuldesh Johal
Kuldesh Johal (born 25 September 1980) is an English former professional snooker player. He competed on the main tour during the 2008/2009 and 2010/2011 seasons.
Career
Born in 1980, Johal played in Challenge Tour qualifying events in the ea ...
Dilwyn John
Dilwyn E. John (born 3 June 1944) is a Welsh former professional footballer and amateur snooker player. He made more than 160 appearances in The Football League for Cardiff City and Swansea City.
Football career
A goalkeeper, John began hi ...
Mark Johnston-Allen
Mark Johnston-Allen (born 28 December 1968 in Bristol) is a former professional snooker player.
Career
He reached the final of the 1991 European Open while ranked #59 in the world, a run which included a 5–0 win over Stephen Hendry; Johns ...
Duane Jones
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Frank Jonik
Francis "Frank" Jonik (2 December 1957 – 31 March 2019) was a Canadians, Canadian professional snooker player.
Career
Born in 1957, Jonik first played competitive snooker in 1978 at the Canadian Professional Championship, and turned professio ...
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Mark Joyce
Mark Joyce (born 11 August 1983) is an English professional snooker player who lives in Walsall. He began his professional career by playing Challenge Tour in 2003. Joyce enjoyed an outstanding amateur career, winning the European Under-19 Cha ...
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Ju Reti
Ju Reti ( zh, t=居熱提; ug, بارى مەمتىلى, lat=Jür'et Abdurëhim; born 19 September 1983) is a former Chinese professional snooker player.
Career
Amateur
2012/2013
Ju, a farmer, from the Xinjiang region China of the Uyghur eth ...
Michael Judge
Michael Judge (born 12 January 1975 in Dublin) is a professional snooker player from the Republic of Ireland. His best performance in a ranking event came in the 2004 Grand Prix, where he reached the semi-finals, and he reached his highest rank ...
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Issara Kachaiwong
Issara Kachaiwong (born October 4, 1983, in Chanthaburi, Thailand), is a former Thai professional snooker player.
Career
Kachaiwong first came to public attention in 2002 when he became the Thai national under-20 champion. He continued to impr ...
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Amee Kamani
Amee Kamani (born 3 June 1992) is an Indian snooker player. She was runner-up in the 2016 International Billiards and Snooker Federation World Snooker championship, losing 0–5 in the final to the defending champion Wendy Jans. Kamani was th ...
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Daniel Kandi
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Jack Karnehm
Jack Karnehm (18 June 1917, Tufnell Park, north London, England – 28 July 2002, Crowthorne, Berkshire) was a British snooker commentator, who was regularly heard on BBC television from 1978 until 1994, and a former amateur world champion at t ...
Julie Kelly
Julie Kelly (born 28 January 1968) is an Irish professional pool, and former snooker, player. She won the WPA nine-ball world championship in 2000.
Biography
Kelly was a sheepherder in Ireland and won the Irish women's snooker championship a rec ...
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Rebecca Kenna
Rebecca Kenna (' Granger; born 11 January 1989) is an English professional snooker player from Keighley. She competes on the World Women's Snooker Tour, through which she also earned a tour card for the professional World Snooker Tour. She was run ...
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Kingsley Kennerley
Kingsley Kennerley (27 December 1913 – 26 June 1982) was an English billiards and snooker player.
Career
In the period from 1937 to 1940 Kennerley enjoyed considerable success as an amateur in both billiards and snooker. He won the English Am ...
Mohamed Khairy
Mohamed Alaa Khairy (born 26 December 1981) is an Egyptian former professional snooker player. Khairy turned professional in 2012 after having been nominated by the African Billiards and Snooker Federation, but was relegated from the tour afte ...
Lukas Kleckers
Lukas Kleckers (born 18 May 1996 in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German professional snooker player.
Career
Kleckers first drew attention in 2013 when, at the age of 17, he captured the highest ranking and most prestigious amateur event ...
Sanderson Lam
Sanderson Lam () (born 28 January 1994) is an English professional snooker player.
Early life
Lam was born to Chinese parents in Leeds, England. His parents moved to England in the 1980s.
Career
In 2011 Lam started to take part in the Players ...
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John Lardner
John Lardner (born 10 May 1972 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a former professional snooker player. His best performance came in the 1999 World Snooker Championship, where he reached the last 32. He reached a peak world ranking of 67th in 2000– ...
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Rod Lawler
Rod Lawler (born 12 July 1971) is an English professional snooker player. He is noted for his slow playing style which gave rise to his nickname, "Rod the Plod".
After turning professional in 1990, Lawler has reached one ranking tournament fin ...
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Fred Lawrence
Fred Lawrence 18 June 1887 – 4 January 1964
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James Leadbetter
James Leadbetter (born 23 December 1980) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Leadbetter was born in 1980, and turned professional in 2003. His début season was without any success, and he dropped off the main tour at the ...
Lei Peifan
Lei Peifan (; born 31 May 2003) is a Chinese former professional snooker player.
Career
In May 2019, Lei came through Q School on the overall Order of Merit to earn a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour for the 2019–20 and 2020–21
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Gerrit bij de Leij
Gerrit bij de Leij (born 9 December 1980, in Appelscha, Friesland) is an internationally notable Dutch amateur snooker player.
Bij de Leij reached the round of 32 at the 2006 IBSF World Championships in Amman, Jordan
Jordan ( ar, ا ...
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Sue LeMaich
Sue LeMaich is a Canadian snooker player. She was runner-up in the 1986 World Women's Snooker Championship.
Biography
In both 1980 and 1981, LeMaich was beaten by Lesley McIlrath at the last 16 stage of the World Women's Snooker Championship. ...
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Steve Lemmens
Steve Lemmens (September 8, 1972 – October 11, 2016) was a Belgian former professional snooker player who played on the main tour between 1991 and 1995.
Career
Lemmens first burst onto the snooker scene in his home country when at the age ...
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Margaret Lennan
Margaret Lennan was a Scottish snooker and billiards player. She was runner-up in the 1936 Women's Professional Billiards Championship.
Biography
Lennan started playing billiards at the age of 17, and received coaching from Alec Donaldson, ...
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Kritsanut Lertsattayathorn
Kritsanut Lertsattayathorn (; born 16 December 1988 in Bangkok, Thailand) is a Thai snooker player. He was the Asian Snooker Champion in 2016.
Career
At the 2014 Six-red World Championship Lertsattayathorn defeated defending champion Mark Davi ...
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Michael Leslie
Michael Leslie (born 28 January 1993) is a former Scottish professional snooker player.
Leslie turned professional in 2012 after winning the 2012 EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships and gained a two-year tour card for the 2012–13 ...
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Li Hang Li Hang is the name of:
* Li Hang (footballer) (李行, born 1989), Chinese association footballer
*Li Hang (snooker player) (李行, born 1990), Chinese snooker player
See also
* Li Gang (Song dynasty) (李綱, 1083–1140), regional commander se ...
Li Yuan
Emperor Gaozu of Tang (7 April 566 – 25 June 635, born Li Yuan, courtesy name Shude) was the founding emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, reigning from 618 to 626. Under the Sui dynasty, Li Yuan was the governor in the area of modern-da ...
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Liang Wenbo
Liang Wenbo (; born 25 March 1987) is a Chinese professional snooker player based at the Oracle Snooker Club, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England. Liang, who plays left-handed, has reached one Triple Crown final, made three Masters appearances, and ...
David Lilley
David William Lilley (born 31 October 1977 in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire) is a Scottish former professional footballer who usually plays at centre back but has also played at right back. Lilley was most recently the manager of Bellshill Athl ...
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Horace Lindrum
Horace Lindrum (born Horace Norman William Morrell, 15 January 1912 – 20 June 1974) was an Australian professional snooker and billiards player. A dominant snooker player in Australia, he lived in Britain for long periods and played in the maj ...
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Oliver Lines
Oliver Lines (born 16 June 1995) is an English professional snooker player who practices at Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds. He is the son of professional snooker player Peter Lines.
Career Amateur
Lines switched sports from football to snook ...
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Peter Lines
Peter Lines (born 11 December 1969) is an English professional snooker player. He has reached the semi-finals of one ranking tournament, the 2018 Paul Hunter Classic. He reached his highest ranking, 42nd in the world, in 1999. He is the father ...
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Jack Lisowski
Jack Adam Lisowski (born 25 June 1991) is an English professional snooker player from Churchdown, Gloucestershire. He turned professional in 2010 by finishing first in the 2009/2010 PIOS rankings. A left-handed player, he is known for his atta ...
Liu Song
Song, known as Liu Song (), Former Song (前宋) or Song of (the) Southern Dynasty (南朝宋) in historiography, was an imperial dynasty of China and the first of the four Southern dynasties during the Northern and Southern dynasties period. ...
Lu Ning
Lu Ning (, born 1 January 1994 in Jilin) is a professional snooker player from the People's Republic of China.
Lu is among ten Chinese players currently suspended from the professional tour amid a match-fixing investigation.
Career
Lu's fir ...
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Luo Honghao
Luo Honghao (; born 31 January 2000) is a Chinese former professional snooker player.
Career Amateur
In July 2017, he reached the final of 2017 IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship where he lost the final 7–6 to Fan Zhengyi.
Later i ...
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Lyu Haotian
Lyu Haotian (, born 29 November 1997) is a snooker player from the People's Republic of China, notable for being one of the youngest snooker players to have played in professional tournaments, aged only 14. He reached the quarter-finals of the ...
Murdo MacLeod
Murdo Davidson MacLeod (born 24 September 1958 in Glasgow) is a Scottish former professional football player and manager. MacLeod, who played as a midfielder, made 20 appearances for Scotland and played in the 1990 World Cup Finals. He had a ...
Kurt Maflin
Kurt Graham Maflin (born 8 August 1983) is an English-Norwegian former professional snooker player. A strong break-builder, Maflin has compiled more than 200 century breaks during his career and has made two 147 breaks in professional competitio ...
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Chitra Magimairaj
Chitra Magimairaj (born 7 April 1973, Bangalore), is an Indian professional player of snooker, English billiards, and pool. She is a two-time World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association World Champion of English Billiards (2006, 20 ...
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Stephen Maguire
Stephen Maguire (born 13 March 1981) is a Scottish professional snooker player. He has won six major ranking tournaments, including the 2004 UK Championship, and has twice since reached the finals of that event. Maguire turned professional i ...
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Atthasit Mahitthi
Atthasit Mahitthi ( th, อรรถสิทธิ์ มหิทธิ) (born 13 September 1978) is a former professional Thai snooker player.
Mahitthi reached the semi-final at the 2006 IBSF World Amateur Championship in Amman, Jordan, w ...
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Rouzi Maimaiti
Rouzi Maimaiti ( ug, روزا مەمەت, Roza Memet; ; born 4 July 1983) is a Chinese professional snooker player.
Career
Maimaiti has been a wildcard player at several ranking tournaments before turning professional. He lost the majority ...
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Marlon Manalo
Marlon Manalo (born November 27, 1975, in Mandaluyong, Philippines) is a former Filipino professional pool player from Mandaluyong, Philippines. He became the League of Barangays of the Philippines Press Relation Officer and ABC president.
Car ...
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Alec Mann
Alec E. Mann was an English professional snooker player.
Career
Born in Birmingham on 14 November 1902, Mann turned professional in 1926, entering the 1927 World Championship, where he lost his first match 6–8 to Albert Cope after leading ...
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Mitchell Mann
Mitchell Mann (born 26 December 1991) is an English professional snooker player.
Career Junior
Mann first played snooker aged 9, after being forced to quit football after a diagnosis of Legg–Calvé–Perthes syndrome, a rare disease which r ...
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Stuart Mann
Stuart Mann (born 30 December 1972) is an English former professional snooker player. He competed on the main tour over ten seasons between 1991 and 2006.
Career
Mann was born in 1972, and turned professional in 1991. His first six seasons on ...
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Perrie Mans
Pierre "Perrie" Mans (born 14 October 1940) is a retired professional snooker player from South Africa, who first won the South African Professional Championship in 1965, and won the event 20 times. Mans won the Benson & Hedges Masters in 1979 ...
Youssra Matine
Yousra Matine (born 6 April 1996) is a Moroccan snooker player. She won the Women's Individual Snooker gold medal at the 2019 African Games. There were four entries in the women's individual snooker event. Matine beat Hakima Kissai 3–0, Ya ...
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Anna Mazhirina
Anna Mazhirina (born 28 March 1983) is a Russian professional pool, snooker and billiards player. Mazhirina is a former Russian Billiards world champion, winning the event in 2005 and 2006. In addition, she is a multiple time finalist at Europe ...
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Stefan Mazrocis
Stefan Mazrocis (born 18 April 1967) is a Dutch-English former professional snooker player. He was born of Latvian and English parentage, and spent his early life in Leicester, England.
Career
Mazrocis turned professional in 1991. In 1995, ...
Chris McBreen
Chris McBreen (born 9 August 1972) is a New Zealand former professional snooker player, living in Germany. He was runner-up in the Oceania Play-offs, however Glen Wilkinson
Glen Wilkinson (born 4 July 1959) is an Australian professional ...
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Clark McConachy
Clark McConachy (15 April 1895 – 12 April 1980), often known simply as Mac, was a New Zealand professional player of English billiards and snooker.
Life and career
McConachy was born at Glenorchy in Otago in 1895. He was the New Zealand ...
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Maryann McConnell
Maryann McConnell is a Canadian snooker and pool player. She was runner-up in the 1984 Professional World Women's Snooker Championship, and has won numerous pool tournaments in Canada.
Biography
McConnell started playing at the age of 24, at t ...
Anthony McGill
Anthony McGill (born 5 February 1991) is a Scottish professional snooker player. He is a practice partner of retired snooker player Alan McManus.
McGill turned professional in 2010, after finishing fourth in the 2009/2010 PIOS rankings. He wo ...
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Dermot McGlinchey
Dermot McGlinchey (born 9 May 1973) is a former professional snooker player from Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label=Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United King ...
Jack McLaughlin
Jack McLaughlin (born 29 January 1959) is a Northern Irish former professional snooker and billiards player from Lurgan. McLaughlin is most notable for winning the 1988 Irish Professional Championship.
Career
McLaughlin turned professional i ...
Alan McManus
Alan McManus (born 21 January 1971) is a Scottish retired professional snooker player and current commentator who works for Eurosport. A mainstay of the world's top sixteen during the 1990s and 2000s, he has won two ranking events, the 1994 Du ...
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Paul McPhillips
Paul McPhillips (born 27 March 1971) is a Scottish former professional snooker player. He is best known as the regular practice partner of Stephen Hendry.
Amateur career
McPhillips was the UK Junior Champion in 1987. In 1990, he was defeated by ...
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Jim Meadowcroft
Jim Meadowcroft (15 December 1946 – 25 September 2015) was an English professional snooker player who latterly was a coach and a commentator on the game.
His most successful years were during the 1970s; he was ranked number 12 in the world ...
Joe Meara
Joe or JOE may refer to:
Arts
Film and television
* ''Joe'' (1970 film), starring Peter Boyle
* ''Joe'' (2013 film), starring Nicolas Cage
* ''Joe'' (TV series), a British TV series airing from 1966 to 1971
* ''Joe'', a 2002 Canadian animated ...
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Paul Medati
Paul Medati (14 November 1943 – 29 November 2008) was an English professional snooker and pool player.
Career
Medati was born in Ordsall, Salford, Lancashire to Maltese parents, and attended St. Joseph's Primary School.
After playing sno ...
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Aditya Mehta
Aditya Mehta (born 31 October 1985 in Mumbai, India) is an Indian former professional snooker player. He participated on the World Snooker Tour for the 2007–08 season, and between 2011 and 2018. He reached a highest world ranking of 49. Meht ...
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Mei Xiwen
Mei Xiwen (;born October 8, 1982) is a Chinese former professional snooker player.
Career
Mei made his debut on the Main Tour in the 2009/2010 season, as the ACBS Asian nomination, playing his first match at the 2009 Grand Prix. He lost 5 ...
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Babken Melkonyan
Babken Melkonyan ( hy, Բաբկեն Մելքոնյան; born 4 March 1980, Yerevan, Armenia) is an Armenian amateur snooker & pool player, who participated in
the EBSA European Snooker Championships 2010 and the WPA World Nine-ball Championship
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Chris Melling
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Shaun Mellish
Shaun Mellish (born 10 January 1970) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Born in 1970, Mellish turned professional in 1991. In his first season, he enjoyed a run to the last 48 at the 1992 World Championship, defeating s ...
Tony Meo
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Yasin Merchant
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Hanna Mergies
Hanna Mergies (born 21 November 1984) is a Polish amateur snooker player.
European Snooker Championships
At the European Snooker Championship in 2001, Mergies won three of her four matches in the qualifying group, losing only to eventual champ ...
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Hammad Miah
Hammad Miah ( bn, হাম্মাদ মিঞা; born 6 July 1993) is a British professional snooker player of Bangladeshi-origin.
In May 2013, Miah qualified for the 2013–14 and 2014–15 professional Main Tour as one of four semi- ...
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Jimmy Michie
Jimmy Michie (pronounced "Mickey"; born 4 August 1971) is an English former professional snooker player from Pontefract, Yorkshire, and a two-time WPBSA ranking tournament semi-finalist, who has also reached the World Snooker Championship. Mich ...
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Paul Mifsud
Paul Mifsud is a Maltese former professional snooker player.
Career
Mifsud turned professional in 1983, and in the primitive world rankings at this time, was placed 49th. He was relegated from the snooker tour two seasons later, and has since c ...
Graham Miles
Graham Miles (11 May 1941 – 12 October 2014) was an English snooker player.
Career
Miles turned professional in 1971. He first gained recognition in 1974, when he reached the final of the World Championship. Although he lost 12–22 to Ray Re ...
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Robert Milkins
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Milkins ...
Moh Keen Ho
Moh Keen Ho () is a Malaysian former professional snooker player.
Career
Moh turned professional in 2005, as the winner of the ACBS Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship. In his first season on the main tour, he entered four of the ranking tourn ...
Darren Morgan
Darren Morgan (born 3 May 1966) is a Welsh former professional snooker player who now competes as an amateur.
Morgan won the World Amateur Championship in 1987 and played on the professional main tour from 1988 until 2006. He earned just ov ...
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Paddy Morgan
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Mario Morra
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Born in Rome, Morra began working as an assistant editor in the early 1960s, and made his debut as film editor in 1964.Roberto Poppi. ''Dizionario del cinema italiano. ...
Doug Mountjoy
Doug Mountjoy (8 June 1942 – 14 February 2021) was a Welsh snooker player from Tir-y-Berth, Gelligaer, Glamorgan, Wales. He was a member of the professional snooker circuit from the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, and remained within the ...
Lasse Münstermann
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Shaun Murphy
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R Umadevi Nagaraj
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She had defeated World No 13 ...
Niu Zhuang
Niu Zhuang (, born 26 June 1994) is a Chinese former professional snooker player.
Career
Niu first received attention in world snooker when he entered APTC Event 2 in 2012, reaching the last 16 and defeating established professionals Mark K ...
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Chris Norbury
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Andrew Norman
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Joe O'Boye
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Career
O’Boye had three applicati ...
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Fergal O'Brien
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Dene O'Kane
Dene O'Kane (born 24 February 1963) is a former professional snooker player from Auckland, New Zealand.
Career
O'Kane won the 1980 New Zealand Amateur Championship, and represented New Zealand at the 1982 IBSF World Snooker Championship, winn ...
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Bill Oliver Bill Oliver may refer to:
*Bill Oliver (American football) (born 1939), American football player and coach
* Bill Oliver (politician), Canadian politician
*Bill Oliver (snooker player)
Bill Oliver (born 3 December 1948) is an English former pro ...
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Jamie O'Neill
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Suzie Opacic
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Ronnie O'Sullivan
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Ken Owers
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Career
Born in 1953, Owers turned professional in 1986. He saw immediate success, reaching the last 16 at his first tournament, the 1986 International Open. ...
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Jackson Page
Jackson Page (born 8 August 2001 in Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent) is a Welsh professional snooker player. He is a former European U-21 champion and the former Under-18 World Snooker Champion and in 2017 also became the Under-18 European Snooker Ch ...
Andrew Pagett
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Career Early career
He played on Challenge Tour from 2003 to 2005, and first qualified for the Main Tour in 2008–09, but lost his place after just one season. He ...
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Alex Pagulayan
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Munraj Pal
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Career
Pal turned professional in 1995, but fell off the tour two years later in 1997. He re-qualified during the 1997/1998 season, but lost his professional s ...
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Pang Junxu
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Career
As a result of Pang's performances on the CBSA Tour, he was awarded a two-year card on the World Snook ...
Emma Parker
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Maurice Parkin
Maurice Parkin is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Parkin turned professional in 1971, entering the 1972 World Championship that season. He won his first qualifying round match 11–10 against Geoff Thompson, but was def ...
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John Parrott
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Fraser Patrick
Fraser Patrick (born 8 November 1985) is a Scottish professional snooker player from Glasgow.
Career
Patrick started his professional career in 2002 by playing Challenge Tour, where he spent three seasons without success. In 2007 Patrick ear ...
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Karl Payne
Karl Payne is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Payne turned professional in 1991. He initially had little success but broke into the top 64 of the world rankings after a good 1995/1996 season, in which he reached the las ...
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Nick Pearce
Nicholas Pearce, known as Nick Pearce (born 25 January 1967) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Pearce was born in 1967, and first attracted public attention at the age of sixteen when he appeared on ''Junior Pot Black'' ...
Naveen Perwani
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Stuart Pettman
Stuart Pettman (born 24 April 1975) is an English former professional snooker player and author. The Preston native has qualified for the World Championship three times, in 2003, 2004 and 2010. He beat 2005 champion Shaun Murphy in qualifying t ...
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Phaitoon Phonbun
Phaitoon Phonbun (; born 5 October 1975) is a Thai former professional snooker player.
Career
Phonbun was born in 1975, and began playing snooker at competitive level as a wildcard entry in the 1995 Thailand Open, where he also recorded his ...
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Tai Pichit
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Pichit participated at the World Snooker Championship three times, reaching the first round in 1995. Pichit's best over ...
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Vidya Pillai
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Barry Pinches
Barry Pinches (born 13 July 1970 in Catton, Norwich) is an English professional snooker player, recognisable for his bright and flamboyant waistcoats, which usually feature the yellow and green colours of Norwich City F.C. He is a former top 3 ...
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Gary Ponting
Gary Ponting (born 17 January 1975) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Ponting was born in 1975, and turned professional in 1993. He reached the last 32 of the 1994 World Championship, losing 2–10 to Willie Thorne, an ...
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Kwan Poomjang
Suchakree "Kwan" Poomjang (born 2 January 1975) is a Thai former professional snooker player who spent three years on the sport's main tour between 2001 and 2004. He reached the final stages of a tournament once, at the 2002 UK Championship, a ...
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Dechawat Poomjaeng
Dechawat Poomjaeng ( ''Dechāwạt Phùmcæ̂ng'', born July 11, 1978) is a Thai professional snooker player.
Career
Early career
He won the 2010 IBSF World Snooker Championship in Damascus, Syria, defeating India's Pankaj Advani 10–7 in the ...
Ian Preece
Ian Preece (born 23 June 1982) is a Welsh former professional snooker player, from the city of Newport.
Preece first appeared on the main tour in 2003, after a successful career as a junior; he held the record as the youngest winner of the W ...
Jason Prince
Jason Prince (born 17 June 1970 from Derry) is a Northern Irish former professional snooker player.
Career
Born in 1970, Prince turned professional in 1990, having beaten Fred Davis 10–5 to qualify. During his first season, he reached the l ...
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Kelsall Prince
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Kelsall Prince was a boy champion at billiards, playing a ...
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John Pulman
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Jackie Rea
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Rea reached the semi-final of the 1952 World Championship losing to ...
Ray Reardon
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Fish
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* Ray (fish fin anatomy), a bony or horny spine on a fin
Science and mathematics
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Stuart Reardon
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Playing career
Reardon turned professional from West Bowling A.R.L.F.C. ...
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Tyler Rees
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Career
In February 2016, Rees entered the 2016 EBSA European Under-18 Snooker Championship as ...
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Fred Van Rensburg
Fred "Freddie" van Rensburg was a South African professional snooker player.
Career
Rensburg challenged John Pulman for the World Championship title in early 1966. Pulman had played a series of matches against Rex Williams in South Africa in l ...
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Jimmy van Rensberg
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Career
Bor ...
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Dean Reynolds
Dean Reynolds (born 11 January 1963 in Grimsby) is an English former professional snooker player whose career spanned twenty years from 1981 to 2001.
Career
Before turning professional, Reynolds won the first-ever Junior Pot Black in 1981, b ...
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Cliff Rickard
Cliff Rickard (born 1943) is an Australian Paralympic athlete, snooker player and table tennis player.
At the 1972 Heidelberg Games, he won a silver medal in the Men's Tetraplegic snooker event and competed in athletics and table tennis.
H ...
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Anita Rizzuti
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Career
Rizzuti was a semi-finalist at the inaugural EBSA European Women's Ch ...
Neil Robertson
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Alain Robidoux
Alain Robidoux (born July 25, 1960) is a Canadian retired professional snooker player. Robidoux played on the sport's main tour from 1987 to 2004 and continues to play in events in Canada.
Career
He was born in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec and joined ...
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David Roe
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Career
Roe was born on 11 September 1965 in Derby. He began his professional career for the 1986–87 snoo ...
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Adrian Rosa
Adrian Rosa (born 17 January 1971) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Born in 1971, Rosa turned professional in 1991. He first progressed beyond the pre-qualifying rounds of any event at the 1991 Grand Prix, where he won ...
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Colin Roscoe
Colin Roscoe (born 30 June 1945 in Connah's Quay, Flintshire) is a Welsh former professional snooker player.
Career
Born in 1945, Roscoe won the Welsh Amateur Championship in 1981 and soon after turned professional. He reached his highest ra ...
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Stephen Rowlings
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Noppon Saengkham
Noppon Saengkham (; born 15 July 1992) is a Thai professional snooker player.
Career
Early years
In April 2009, Saengkham lost in the final of the ACBS Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship 1–5 to Zhang Anda. He went one better at the 2009 IBS ...
Ahmed Saif
Ahmed Saif (born 1 January 1983) is a former Qatari professional snooker player. He was the first professional player from Qatar. Saif was a professional between 2013 and 2015, reaching a highest ranking of 113 in the world.
Career
Amateur
Saif ...
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Brian Salmon
Brian Salmon (born 5 April 1978) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Salmon turned professional in 2000. During the 2001/2001 season, he reached the last 80 at the 2001 European Open, defeating former World Champion Joe ...
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Arantxa Sanchis
Arantxa Sanchis is a female professional English billiards and snooker player from India. She won a gold medal in the Women's Team event at the inaugural International Billiards and Snooker Federa ...
Itaro Santos
Itaro Santos (born 28 July 1985) is a German-born Brazilian former professional snooker player. Itaro is based at the Legends Snooker Academy in Leytonstone, England, United Kingdom.
Career
Since 2004 Santos has also competed for Germany, as hi ...
Diana Schuler
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Mark Selby
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Vera Selby
Vera Selby MBE (born 13 March 1930) is an English former snooker and English billiards player. She won the Women's World Open Championship twice, in both 1976 and 1981. She was also the Women's Billiards champion from 1970 to 1978.
Career
S ...
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Matthew Selt
Matthew Selt (born 7 March 1985) is an English professional snooker player originally from Romford, east London and now living in Chelmsford, Essex. He qualified for the professional tour by finishing seventh on the Pontin's International Open ...
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Geet Sethi
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Kim Shaw
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Early life and education
Shaw grew up in Miami and Longwood, Florida. After graduating from Lake Brantley High School, Shaw moved to New York City to attend the American Academy ...
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Troy Shaw
Troy Shaw (born 6 October 1969) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Competing on the main tour from 1991, Shaw won the second leg of minor ranking tournament the Strachan Challenge in 1993, beating Nigel Bond in the fi ...
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Dessie Sheehan
Dessie Sheehan (born 3 September 1949 in Limerick) is an Irish former professional snooker player.
Career
Born in 1949, Sheehan turned professional in 1981. His first match was a 5–1 victory over Vic Harris in the International Open, but he ...
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Mohammed Shehab
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The winner of the Snooker Singles at the 2007 Asian Indoor Games, Shehab has enjoyed good form in the six-red variant format, most notably at the ...
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Michael Shelton
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Yana Shut
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Si Jiahui
Si Jiahui (; born 11 July 2002) is a Chinese professional snooker player.
Career
In May 2019, Si qualified for the 2019–20 and 2020–21 professional Main Tour as Q School, as the highest ranked player on the Q School ranking list who didn' ...
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Luke Simmonds
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Career Early career
Simmonds won the World Under-21 Championship in Malta in 1998, defeating Robert Murphy 11–2 in the final, before beating Ryan Day 11 ...
Warren Simpson
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Career
Simpson won amateur championships at state and national level before be ...
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Eddie Sinclair
Eddie Sinclair (5 May 1937 – January 2005) was a Scottish professional snooker player.
Career
Sinclair turned professional in 1979 at the relatively advanced age of 42, reaching a high ranking of 26th in 1982 and holding that position for tw ...
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Elliot Slessor
Elliot Slessor (born 4 August 1994) is an English professional snooker player.
In May 2013, Slessor qualified for the 2013–14 and 2014–15 professional Main Tour as one of four semi-finalists from the first Q School event.
Career
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Chris Small
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Career
At age 15, Small was the numbe ...
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Billy Snaddon
Billy Snaddon (born 7 July 1969) is a Scottish former professional snooker player. He reached the World Snooker Championship first round five times, but never progressed past this stage. He spent 5 seasons ranked among the game's top 32, peaking ...
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Akani Songsermsawad
Akani Songsermsawad (; born 10 September 1995), better known as Sunny Akani, is a Thai former professional snooker player.
Career Early career
Akani, a regular in amateur Thai snooker events since 2011, first came to international attention with ...
Diana Stateczny
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Career Early career
Stateczny started playing cue sports in 1995, initially pool, but focusing ...
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Craig Steadman
Craig Steadman (born 14 July 1982) is an English professional snooker player.
Career
Early career
Steadman began his professional career by playing Challenge Tour in 2001, at the time the second-level professional tour. He reached the quarte ...
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Adam Stefanow
Adam Stefanów (born 22 March 1994 in Nowa Sól, Lubuskie) is a Polish former professional snooker player. Stefanów lives in Sheffield, England. He received an Invitational Tour Card after finishing runner-up in the 2018 WSF Championship. His ...
Robert Stephen
Robert Stephen (born 27 June 1984) is a Scottish former professional snooker player.
He first qualified for the main tour for the 2006–07 season having topped the Scottish rankings the year before. During the 2008–09 season, he reache ...
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Kirk Stevens
Kirk Stevens (born August 17, 1958) is a Canadian former professional snooker player.
Career
Stevens started playing young, achieving his first aged just 12. He turned professional aged 20, and reached the semi-finals of the World Championship ...
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Matthew Stevens
Matthew Stevens (born 11 September 1977) is a Welsh professional snooker player. He has won two of the game's Triple Crown events, the Masters in 2000 and the UK Championship in 2003. He has also been a two-time runner-up in the other triple ...
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Harry Stokes
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Sean Storey
Sean Storey (born 19 August 1971 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England) is a former English professional snooker player.
His best ranking performance to date came in the World Championship in 2003, where he defeated Joe Perry before bowing o ...
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Waratthanun Sukritthanes
Waratthanun Sukritthanes (; born 5 December 1993) is a snooker player from Thailand. She was the 2018 IBSF World Snooker Championship Women's Champion, and was the runner-up in 2017.
Biography
Sukritthanes reached the 2017 IBSF World Snooker C ...
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Zak Surety
Zak Surety (born 4 October 1991) is an English professional snooker player. He practises frequently with Stuart Bingham and Allan Taylor.
Career
As an amateur, Surety based in Basildon entered in Players Tour Championship events from their e ...
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Passakorn Suwannawat
Passakorn Suwannawat (born 1 May 1986, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand) is a former Thai professional snooker player.
Career Early career
Suwannawat first turned professional in the 2006–07 season by winning the 2006 ACBS Asian Under-21 Snooker Cha ...
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Joe Swail
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James Tatton
James Tatton (born 20 July 1978) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Born in 1978, Tatton turned professional in 1996. His first season's results meant that he fell off the tour at its conclusion. Several seasons alte ...
Dennis Taylor
Dennis Taylor (born 19 January 1949) is a Northern Irish retired professional snooker player and current commentator. He is best known for winning the 1985 World Snooker Championship, where he defeated the defending champion Steve Davis in a ...
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Nick Terry
Nick Terry (born 15 September 1967) is an English former professional snooker player from Finchley.
Career
Terry turned professional in 1988, losing his first match, at the 1988 International Open, 2–5 to Colin Roscoe. In his first seaso ...
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Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon
Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon ( ''Ṭhnwạtʹhn̒ T̄hirphngṣ̄̒phịbūly̒''; born December 14, 1993) is a Thai former professional snooker player. He turned professional in 2010 as the Asian nomination following his run to the semi-finals of ...
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Thor Chuan Leong
Thor Chuan Leong (; born 24 March 1988) is a Malaysian former professional snooker player. He is commonly referred to as Rory Thor.
Career
Thor, based in Penang, Malaysia represented his country at the 2006 & 2010 Asian Games and in the ...
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Cliff Thorburn
Clifford Charles Devlin Thorburn (born 16 January 1948) is a Canadian retired professional snooker player. Nicknamed "The Grinder" because of his slow, determined style of play, he won the World Snooker Championship in 1980, defeating Alex Hi ...
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Willie Thorne
William Joseph Thorne (4 March 195417 June 2020) was an English professional snooker player. He won one ranking title, the 1985 Classic. He also reached the final of the 1985 UK Championship, losing 16–14 to Steve Davis after leading 13–8 ...
Tian Pengfei
Tian Pengfei (, born 16 August 1987) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He began his career by playing the Challenge Tour in 2004, at the time the second-level professional tour. Tian played on the Main Tour in 2006 and competed on the ...
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Chris Totten
Chris Totten (born 5 December 1998 in Wishaw, Lanarkshire) is a Scottish former professional snooker player. He is a former EBSA European Snooker Champion.
Career
In March 2017, Totten entered the 2017 EBSA European Snooker Championship as th ...
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Judd Trump
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Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (, ; born 18 April 1985) is a Thai professional snooker player.
He has won one ranking event, the 2019 Snooker Shoot Out, and finished as runner-up in the 2019 World Open. He is regarded as one of the fastest snooker playe ...
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Alexander Ursenbacher
Alexander Ursenbacher (born 26 April 1996) is a Swiss professional snooker player from Rheinfelden. He is Switzerland's first professional snooker player (former professional Darren Paris represented England, in the mid-1990s, before moving to S ...
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Hossein Vafaei
Hossein Vafaei ( fa, حسین وفایی ایوری; born 15 October 1994) is an Iranian professional snooker player. He is the first professional player from Iran. He won his first professional title at the 2022 Snooker Shoot Out, beating Mark ...
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Soheil Vahedi
Soheil Vahedi ( fa, سهیل واحدی, born March 15, 1989) is an Iranian former professional snooker player.
Career
In 2009 Vahedi entered the World Amateur Under-21 Snooker Championships in his home country in Kish, Iran in which he reached ...
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Kevin Van Hove
Kevin Van Hove-Speltincx (born 15 October 1983) is a Belgium former professional snooker player. He is the former European Snooker Champion.
Career
In 2004, Van Hove entered the Belgian Amateur Championship, defeating Jim Spapen 7–1 in the ...
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Tatjana Vasiljeva
Tatjana Vasiļjeva is a Latvian snooker player. She is national champion and European champion in snooker. She was the winner of the European ladies championship in 2012.
Vasiljeva and Anna Prysazhnuka were runners-up in the 2016 Ladies European ...
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Lucky Vatnani
Lucky Vatnani (born 23 December 1985) is an Indian former professional snooker player. He is from Hyderabad, India, but was based in Sheffield, England during his snooker career.
Career
Vantani, a graduate from Sheffield Hallam University in Bu ...
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John Virgo
John Virgo (born 4 March 1946) is an English former professional snooker player who has since developed a career as a snooker commentator and TV personality.
Snooker career
Early professional career (1973–1978)
Virgo's first notable appea ...
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Chris Wakelin
Chris Wakelin (born 16 March 1992) is an English professional snooker player from Rugby, Warwickshire. He practices in Bar 8 in Rugby.
Career
Early career
Wakelin started playing snooker aged 8, when his parents Mark and Angie bought him his ...
Ricky Walden
Ricky Walden (born 11 November 1982) is an English professional snooker player from Chester.
Walden turned professional in 2000 and it took him eight years to win his first ranking title at the Shanghai Masters. He has since won the 2012 Wuxi ...
Lee Walker
Lee Walker (born 11 February 1976) is a Welsh former professional snooker player who is the reigning World Seniors Champion. He is both an official WPBSA and SightRight coach.
Career
After turning professional in 1994 at the age of 18, Walker r ...
Patrick Wallace
Patrick Wallace (born 20 September 1969) is a former professional snooker player from Dungannon in Northern Ireland. During his career, which lasted seventeen years from 1994 to 2011, he won two non-snooker world rankings, ranking titles, and ...
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Katrina Wan
Katrina Wan Ka Kai (; born 8 March 1988) is a snooker player from Hong Kong. She was runner-up in the 2018 Australian Women's Open.
Biography
Wan started playing on the women's snooker circuit in 2013. She reached her highest ranking to date ...
Michael Wasley
Michael Wasley (born 23 February 1990) is an English former professional snooker player.
Wasley turned professional in 2012 after qualifying via Event 3 of Q School and gained a two-year tour card for the 2012–13 and 2013–14 snooker sea ...
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Paul Watchorn
Paul Watchorn (born 19 July 1958) is an Irish folk musician and former professional snooker player. He previously played with Derek Warfield. He currently plays with the band The Dublin Legends who were members of The Dubliners, a band in which ...
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James Wattana
James Wattana (; born January 17, 1970, as วัฒนา ภู่โอบอ้อม ''Wattana Pu-Ob-Orm'', then renamed รัชพล ภู่โอบอ้อม ''Ratchapol Pu-Ob-Orm'' in 2003) is a Thai former professional snooker pl ...
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Mike Watterson
George Michael Edwin Watterson (26 August 1942 – 8 March 2019) was an English professional snooker player, businessman, entrepreneur and television commentator. He was an England Amateur international for two years before turning professiona ...
Bill Werbeniuk
William Alexander Werbeniuk ( ; 14 January 1947 – 20 January 2003) was a Canadian professional snooker and pool player. Recognisable for his girth, he was nicknamed "Big Bill". Werbeniuk was a four-time World Championship quarter-finalist and ...
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Barry West
Barry West (24 October 1958 – 15 December 2022) was an English professional snooker player.
Biography
West was born on 24 October 1958, and became a professional snooker player in 1985. He reached the last 32 of a ranking tournament on fift ...
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Jason Weston
Jason Weston (born 11 January 1971 in Portsmouth) is an English former professional snooker player. He competed on the main tour between 1991 and 1997 and intermittently until 2003, at one point being ranked the world number 90.
After success ...
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Jimmy White
James Warren White (born 2 May 1962) is an English professional snooker player who has won three seniors World titles. Nicknamed "The Whirlwind" because of his fluid, attacking style of play, White is the 1980 World Amateur Champion, 2009 ...
Adam Wicheard
Adam Wicheard (born 23 August 1985) is an English professional snooker player, who has competed professionally between 2010 and 2012.
Career
He was selected to compete in the World Under-21s in 2005 and was progressing towards turning profes ...
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Michael Wild
Michael Wild (born 27 March 1981) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Wild competed in the Challenge Tour and International Open Series events, without much success until the 2002/200 ...
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Mark Wildman
Markham Wildman (born 25 January 1936) is an English retired professional snooker and English billiards player and cue sports commentator. He won the World Professional Billiards Championship in 1984, and was runner up in 1980 and 1982. He made ...
Glen Wilkinson
Glen Wilkinson (born 4 July 1959) is an Australian professional snooker player from Miranda, New South Wales who is currently ranked the number ten snooker player in Australia. He is also a National Director of Coaching for snooker in Australia ...
Rex Williams
Desmond Rex Williams (born 20 July 1933) is a retired English professional snooker and billiards player. He was the second player to make an official maximum break, achieving this in an exhibition match in December 1965. Williams won the Worl ...
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Ian Williamson
Ian Williamson (born 1 December 1958) is an English former professional snooker and English billiards player.
Biography
Ian Williamson was born on 1 December 1958. His father was Jim Williamson, founding proprietor of the Northern Snooker Cen ...
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Robbie Williams
Robert Peter Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer and songwriter. He found fame as a member of the pop group Take That from 1990 to 1995, and achieved commercial success after launching a solo career in 1996. His debut stud ...
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Cliff Wilson
Clifford Wilson (10 May 193421 May 1994) was a Welsh professional snooker player who reached the highest ranking of 16, in 1988-89. He was the 1978 World Amateur Champion and won the 1991 World Seniors Championship. He was a successful junior ...
Kyren Wilson
Kyren Wilson (; born 23 December 1991) is an English professional snooker player from Kettering and a five-time ranking event winner. He has been a runner-up at two of the three Triple Crown events, having reached the final at both the 2018 ...
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Sydney Wilson
Sydney Wilson (born 6 April 1990 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Wilson began playing snooker at the age of three with his father teaching him the basics of the game. He later took lessons f ...
Nutcharut Wongharuthai
Nutcharut Wongharuthai (, ; born 7 November 1999), better known as Mink Nutcharut, is a Thai professional snooker player who is the reigning World Women's Snooker Champion. She and Neil Robertson are also the reigning World Mixed Doubles champio ...
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Ben Woollaston
Ben Woollaston (born 14 May 1987) is an English professional snooker player from Leicester. His sole professional title came at the minor-ranking third Players Tour Championship event in 2011. Woollaston's only ranking event final came at the ...
Jon Wright
Jon Wright is a Northern Irish writer and film director.
Career
He is known for directing the Irish monster movie '' Grabbers'' and the British low budget horror comedy '' Tormented'' starring Alex Pettyfer. He directed and co-wrote the scien ...
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Wu Yize
Wu Yize (; born 14 October 2003) is a Chinese professional snooker player.
Career
Wu Yize won the IBSF U-21 World Championship in 2018 when he was just fourteen years old, defeating Pongsakorn Chongjairak from Thailand 6–4 in the final.
Wu ...
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Wu Yu Lin
Wu Yu Lin is a Taiwanese snooker player.
Career
Wu represented Chinese Taipei when competing at snooker tournament at the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung. He caused a massive upset as he beat the highest-ranked participating player, Ricky Walden, i ...
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Jim Wych
Jim Wych (born 11 January 1955 in Calgary) is a Canadian sports announcer and former professional snooker and pocket billiards player. He turned professional in 1979 and reached the quarter-final of the 1980 World Snooker Championship in his debut ...
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Paul Wykes
Paul Wykes (born 15 April 1971) is an English former professional snooker player from Bournemouth, Dorset. He spent 16 years on the circuit and remained in the world's top 64 for 13 years.
Career
Wykes turned professional in 1991 and achieved ...
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Xiao Guodong
Xiao Guodong (, born 10 February 1989) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He turned professional in 2007 after winning the Asian Under-21 Championships.
Career 2007–2010
Xiao appeared as a wildcard in the 2007 China Open, and beat t ...
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Xu Si
Xu Si (; born 24 January 1998) is a Chinese professional snooker player.
Career
Xu Si first started playing snooker aged 12 at his local club in Jieyang during the school holidays. After a few weeks he became determined to become a snooker pla ...
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Yan Bingtao
Yan Bingtao (, born 16 February 2000) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He is the youngest player to win the Amateur World Snooker Championship after defeating Muhammad Sajjad 8–7.
Having qualified to compete on the main tour for ...
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Hatem Yassen
Hatem Yassen ( ''Ḥātam Yāsīn''; born 21 August 1986) is a former Egyptian professional snooker player. Yassen turned professional in 2015 winning the African Championship.
Note: The professional tour spells his name Hatem Yaseen.
Career
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Yu Delu
Yu Delu (; born 11 October 1987) is a former professional snooker player from the People's Republic of China. He is currently serving a 10 years and 9 months ban for match-fixing from 25 May 2018 until 24 February 2029. The ban was announced on ...
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Yuan Sijun
Yuan Sijun (Chinese: 袁思俊; born 29 May 2000) is a Chinese professional snooker player.
Career
Yuan started to play snooker at the age of 10 and played as a wildcard in many professional tournaments between ages of 13 and 16. Yuan first drew ...
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Zhang Anda
Zhang Anda (born 25 December 1991) is a Chinese professional snooker player, who made his debut on the Main Tour for the 2009–10 season. He qualified by winning the ACBS Asian Under-21 Championship.
Standing at 5 ft. 3 in. tall, h ...
Zhao Jianbo
Zhao Jianbo (, born 27 August 2003) is a Chinese former professional snooker player.
Zhao is among ten Chinese players currently suspended from World Snooker Tour events amid a match-fixing investigation. In January 2023, the WPBSA charged hi ...
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Zhao Xintong
Zhao Xintong (; born 3 April 1997) is a Chinese professional snooker player. Long considered one of the brightest talents in the game, he won his first ranking title (also his first Triple Crown title) at the 2021 UK Championship, defeating Lu ...
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Zhou Yuelong
Zhou Yuelong (; born 24 January 1998) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He has been runner-up at three ranking events, the January 2020 European Masters, the 2020 Snooker Shoot Out, and the 2022 Northern Ireland Open.
Career
Between 2 ...