David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter

Athletics, Britain. As Lord Burghley he won the 400 metres hurdles at the 1928 Olympics. He then chaired the organising committee of the 1948 London Olympics, the "Austerity Games" staged with existing venues after the Second World War, and was president of the IAAF, athletics' world body, for 30 years from 1946, overseeing its rules through the amateur era.