Who were some famous fencers?

Answer 1

Celebrity sparrersOtto Von Bismarck, Grace Kelly, Basil Rathbone, Danny Kaye, Winston Churchill, Cornel Wilde, Neil Diamond, Rene Descartes, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sir Richard Burton, T.H. White, Harry Hamlin, Aldo Nadi, Erza Pound, Jose Ferrer, Bruce Dickinson, Robert Montgomery, Bo Derek, General George Patton, Alexandre Dumas, Lonnie Anderson, King Olaf V, Paul Newman, Richard Thomas Benito Mussolini, Theodore Roosevelt and Errol Flynn. Pro FencersJoaquim Videira, Wang Lei, Pavel Kolobkov, Stanislav Podzniakov, Alexander Romankov, Vladimir Smirnov, Soren Thompson, Dan Kellner, Rebecca Ward, Igor Tikhomirov, Jean Stern, Christian d'Oriola, Alexandre Lippmann, Richard Cohen, Edgar Seligman, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Nedo Nadi, Mauro Numa, Valentina Vezzali, Keeth Smart, Mariel Zagunis, Erinn Smart, Tim Morehouse, and Kelly Williams.

Answer 2

The last Brit to win a Gold at the Olympics in Fencing was Gillian Sheen who won gold in the Women's Individual Foil in Melbourne 1956. Silvers were won by: * Men's Epee Team in Rome 1960 (Michael Alexander, Michael Howard, John Pelling) * Gladys Davies, Paris 1924, Women's Individual Foil * Men's Epee Team in Athens 1904 (William Desborough, Robert Montgomerie) * Men's Epee Team in London 1908 (C Daniell, M Holt, Edgar Seligman) * Muriel Freeman, Amsterdam 1928, Individual Foil * Heather Guiness, Los Angeles 1932, Individual Foil * Allan Jay, Rome 1960, Individual Epee * Henry Hoskyns, Rome 1960, Individual Foil. Who also represented Britain at 6 Olympics and at all 3 weapons. Pretty impressive.

Answer 3

Various famous people that fence include Grace Kelly, Robert Redford, Charlie O'Connell, George Patton, and Jimmy Buffett.

People famous for their fencing include Alexandr Romankov, Dr. Ivan Osier, Christian d'Oriola, Rudolf Kárpáti, and Valentina Vezzali, amongst others.

Answer 4

David Tennant fences.