3. C.B. Fry
An extraordinary chap in anyone’s book, C.B. Fry was an English renaissance man active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Arguably the greatest all-round sportsman in history, he represented England at cricket and football, making an appearance for Southampton in the 1904 FA Cup final.
His athletics was red-hot too. He set a British long jump record in 1892 before equalling the world record with a leap of 7.17m the following year (after a good lunch and a cigar, apparently). Oh, and did we mention he played rugby for Cambridge University, Blackheath and the Barbarians, too? One wonders where he found the time.