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Florian Wirtz
Florian Richard Wirtz (born 2003) is a German attacking midfielder from Pulheim who starred for Bayer Leverkusen, won the unbeaten 2023/24 Bundesliga, and joined Liverpool in 2025 for £100m.
Florian Xhekaj
Florian Xhekaj, born 2004 in Hamilton, Ontario, is a Canadian left wing in the Montreal Canadiens organization, drafted 101st overall in 2023; brother of Arber Xhekaj, Laval Rocket AHL forward, NHL debut November 22, 2025.
Florica Lavric
Florica Lavric (1962–2014), Romanian rower, won gold in the women's coxed four at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics with Fricioiu, Apostol, Homeghi-Bularda, and cox Ioja, plus World silvers in 1983 and 1985 and 1986 eight bronze.
Florida Atlantic Owls football
Florida Atlantic Owls football: FAU's NCAA Division I FBS team in Boca Raton, Florida, founded in 2001 by Howard Schnellenberger, three conference titles, four bowl wins, American Conference member since 2023.
Florida Championship Wrestling
Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), WWE's Tampa-based developmental promotion founded by Steve Keirn in June 2007, ran until August 2012 when it was rebranded as NXT; alumni include Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns.
Florida Gators
Florida Gators: University of Florida athletic teams in the NCAA Division I SEC, nicknamed the Gators since 1911; three football national titles (1996, 2006, 2008), eight SEC titles, three Heisman winners, home field Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.
Florida Gators football
Florida Gators football, or UF football, is the University of Florida's SEC college football program, founded in 1906, winning national championships in 1996, 2006, and 2008.
Florida Gators men's basketball
Florida Gators men's basketball, University of Florida SEC program founded 1915; NCAA titles 2006, 2007 (Billy Donovan back-to-back) and 2025 under Todd Golden; home O'Connell Center.
Florida Panthers
The Florida Panthers are an NHL ice hockey team based in Sunrise, Florida, founded in 1992, and winners of the Stanley Cup in 2024 and 2025.
Florida State Seminoles baseball
Florida State Seminoles baseball, FSU's ACC program in Tallahassee at Mike Martin Field at Dick Howser Stadium; 24 College World Series appearances, 62 NCAA berths, Mike Martin's 2,029 wins, head coach Link Jarrett.
Florida State Seminoles football
Florida State Seminoles football: FSU's ACC team in Tallahassee, three national titles (1993, 1999, 2013), Bobby Bowden era 1976-2009, Doak Campbell Stadium, Chief Osceola tradition, coach Mike Norvell.
Florida–Florida State football rivalry
Florida–Florida State football rivalry: annual end-of-season game between the Florida Gators and FSU Seminoles, played since 1958 except 2020; Florida leads 39-28-2, defined by the Bowden-Spurrier 1990s and the 1997 Sugar Bowl.
Florida–Georgia football rivalry
Florida–Georgia football rivalry: annual SEC game between the Florida Gators and Georgia Bulldogs, played in Jacksonville since 1933 (two exceptions), nicknamed the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party; Georgia leads the disputed series 56-44-2 or 44-57-2 by Florida's count.
Florimond Cornellie
Florimond Cornellie (Florimond Joseph Cornellie, 1894–1978), Belgian sailor of Royal Yacht Club Oostende; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in the Three-Person Keelboat (6m, 1907 rating) aboard Edelweiss II with his father Émile Cornellie and Frédéric-Albert Bruynseels.
Florimond Cornet
Florimond Cornet, French race walker of the early 1940s; ranked in the 1941 world 50 km walk list (4:32:36, Paris) and held the 30-mile track walk world best, 4:24:54.2 (Paris, 1942). Distinct from Belgian Olympic sailor Florimond Cornellie.
Florin Popescu
Florin Popescu (born 1974, Iancu Jianu, Romania) is a sprint canoeist and coach, Olympic C2 1000 m gold and C2 500 m bronze medalist at Sydney 2000 with Mitică Pricop, and a seven-time flatwater world champion.
Florinda Batson
Florinda Batson, also spelled Florieda Batson, American sprint hurdler and captain of the 13-woman US team at the 1922 Women's World Games in Paris; held FSFI-era records in the 60- and 100-yard hurdles before an ankle injury at the 1922 meet.
Floris Jan Bovelander
Floris Jan Bovelander (born 1966, Haarlem), nicknamed Flop, Dutch field hockey penalty corner specialist; 241 caps, 215 goals; Olympic gold Atlanta 1996, bronze Seoul 1988, 1990 World Cup and 1987 European titles; HC Bloemendaal record scorer.
Floris Wortelboer
Floris Wortelboer (born 1996) is a Dutch field hockey defender for Bloemendaal and the Netherlands, Olympic gold medalist at Paris 2024, European champion 2017 and 2023, debut 18 June 2017, about 151 caps.
Flossen hoch!
Flossen hoch! is a 2012 Zoch Verlag children's memory board game by Edith Grein-Böttcher for 2-4 players aged 4+, about 20 minutes, where players fish hidden colored fish from box slots to move penguins; distinct from Yuval Zommer's 2026 bingo game of the same name.
Flow House Bangkok 2. 0
Flow House Bangkok (โฟลว์ เฮาส์ แบงค็อก) is an urban beach club in Bangkok, Thailand, built around a FlowRider wave machine where visitors bodyboard and surf.
Flow Rider
The Flow Rider is a stationary wave machine invented by surfer Tom Lochtefeld, first installed in Texas in 1991 and now at more than 280 venues in over 50 countries.
Flower Shop
Flower Shop is Mike Zapawa's two-player abstract connection board game (about 30 minutes) on a hexagonal triangular-grid board, where players place colored flowers and shared green stems and score flowers times stems per plant; distinct from Floristry and The Little Flower Shop.
Floyd Heard
Floyd Wayne Heard, born 1966 in West Point, Mississippi, is an American 200 m sprinter, 1986 Goodwill Games champion and world No. 1, 1987 Pan American Games gold medalist, holder of the 4x200 m world record 1:18.68, and a 2000 Sydney Olympian.
Floyd Landis
Floyd Landis, American cyclist who won the 2006 Tour de France, was stripped of the title for testosterone doping, confessed in 2010 and implicated Lance Armstrong, later founding Floyd's of Leadville.
Floyd Little
Floyd Little (1942-2021), "The Franchise," was a Hall of Fame running back for the Denver Broncos (1967-75), sixth pick of the 1967 draft from Syracuse, 1971 NFL rushing champion with 1,133 yards, and credited with keeping the Broncos in Denver.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. (Floyd Mayweather) is a celebrated American professional boxer, born in 1977 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, who accumulated a perfect 50-0 win-loss record.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor, the 2017 Las Vegas crossover boxing match; Mayweather won by 10th-round TKO, retiring 50-0, with 4.3 million PPV buys, a $55.4 million gate, and roughly $275M/$85M fighter earnings.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Logan Paul
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Logan Paul: June 6, 2021 eight-round exhibition boxing match at Hard Rock Stadium, Miami; no judges, no official winner, no knockout; about 1 million Showtime PPV buys, over $50 million.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao
Mayweather vs. Pacquiao, the 2015 "Fight of the Century" at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas: Mayweather won a unanimous decision, and the bout set the pay-per-view record with 4.4 million buys.