| LAUDRUP | Michael, former captain of the Danish national football team (7) |
| BRIANLAUDRUP | Danish national who played for Rangers in the 1990s before moving to Chelsea (5,7) |
| KASPAR | Danish national goalkeeper like his dad Peter, _ Schmeichel (6) |
| EWALD | Danish national anthem poet |
| LAIDLAW | Greig, rugby union scrum-half and former captain of Scotland (7) |
| JOEROOT | Former captain of England men's cricket team (3,4) |
| DINESEN | Isak, pen name of the Danish author Baroness Karen Blixen (7) |
| NIELSEN | Surname of the Danish actress who married Sylvester Stallone (7) |
| BILLBEAUMONT | Former captain of the England rugby union team and the British Lions who became a captain on the BBC quiz show A Question of Sport |
| VAUGHAN | Michael, former England cricket captain who led his country to victory in the Ashes in 2005 (7) |
| ABEDI | ..... Pele, in football, a former captain of the Ghana national team (5) |
| BOTHAM | Former captain of the England cricket team who was the first man to score over 100 runs and take eight wickets in a single innings of a Test match (6) |
| VIRAT | Indian cricketer who is the former captain of the Indian national cricket team, _ Kohli (5) |
| MALIK | Shoaib ---, former captain of the Pakistani national cricket team (5) |
| WARNE | Shane -; former captain of the Australia national cricket team (5) |
| STACY | Former captain of the Canadian national women's hockey team Wilson |
| ARNAUDCLEMENT | Former captain of the French Davis Cup team (6,7) |
| EDJENKINS | A former captain of the Australian rugby sevens team (2,7) |
| ADAM | ____ Gilchrist, former captain of the Australia national cricket team born in 1971 (4) |
| AGGER | Daniel......, coach and former captain of the Denmark national team (5) |
