John "Jack" Robson (1860 – 1922), English full-time secretary manager of football clubs, including Middlesbrough and Manchester United
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Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson, (1919 – 1972), U. S. baseball player, the first black Major League player of the modern era.
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Gwynne Owen Evans had been born at Maryport, Cumberland on 1 April 1940 with the name John Robson Walby, the third but eldest surviving child of Thomas and Hannah Walby.