paul scholes
Some of the smaller countries competing at the 2008 Games are Fiji (6 athletes), Monaco (5 athletes), Marshall Islands (5 athletes), Oman (4 athletes), and Liechenstein (2 athletes).
nick Lidstrom Guy Lapointe Bill Barilko Bernie Geoffrion Denis Potvin Ulf Samuelsson Colin White not many "famous" players wore this number
John Elway
fernango gago is currently wearing #5 for soccer and that is pretty much the only sport they care about
Baseball's most famous No. 5 was worn by Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees.
5 athletes
I know these are some of the players: Andre Johnson Edgerrin James can't think of any more but I'm sure there are some famous names who wore this number Currently Edge James cousin Javarris "Baby J" James wears Number 5
Ron McKeown wore 5 from 1990 to 1993.
There are 640 of them.
Lu Garret wore number 5
Over 50 countries have 5 or less athletes and 11 are tied at 2 athletes. There are 20 countries with only 6 athletes