Stephen Alexander "Sam" Martin, MBE is a former field hockey player who was a member of the golden winning Great Britain squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Four years earlier, at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he secured the bronze medal with his team. He captained the Great Britain team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona before moving into sports administration. Martin has 229 International caps for Ireland and Great Britain. He competed in 3 European Cups and one World Cup with Ireland. He represented Great Britain at 10 Champion Trophies winning bronze in 1984 and Silver in 1985. Martin was born on 13 APR 1959 at Bangor, County Down and was educated at Bangor Central Primary School for 2 years before attending Bloomfield Road Primary School in Bangor, and then Bangor Grammar School. In 1985 he graduated from University of Ulster, Jordanstown with an BA in Sport and Leisure Studies, and in 2001 UUJ awarded him an Honorary Doctorate for services to sport. As well as being a regular on the Bangor Grammar School hockey team he was also on the school's golf team that beat Summerhill College Sligo in the 1974 Irish Schools Match Play Championships Final. 

April 13th, 1959 in Great Britain (Age 65)