[defrost]

If you're interested you could look to the lists of Rhodes Scholar's worldwide- the entry qualification (before selection for award) is to be triple top tier - reputable sporting positon and good academic marks and reputable public facing involvement.

Typically, in Australia say, an annual Rhodes Scholar might be a captain in a state cricket team and a viola player in the state orchestra and studying one of the STEM lines.

I could point to a Physics Prof who occassionally lectures at the Royal Institute with good sports and band camp cred from their youth .. or another teaching music in the US at a prestiguous school - but that starts to pinpoint my origins :)

https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/scholarships/the-rhodes-sch...

[mattikl]

That's interesting. I think it's usually pretty siloed so that people in sports, music or academia/tech are so focused mastering their own field and hang out with likeminded people. Maybe you get combination of two, but three sounds pretty uncommon.

[defrost]

It's mostly in former British Empire territories, but rather famously US POTUS Bill Clinto got a Rhodes (IIRC).

Cecil Rhodes kicked it off on the back of mega mineral wealth extracted from South Africa (and surrounds, back in the day), and he wanted to support well rounded students into the Oxbridge education streams to mix with future UK diplomats, business leaders, politicans to expand the global web of interconnect ...

( fill in your own dots )

It's less about being the best athlete | best musician | best mathematician .. but very much about being up there with them.

There's more than you might think.

eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myron_Rolle

Picked up in the US 2010 NFL Draft, a football playing Bahamian-American neurosurgeon.

Short list of a few notables: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rhodes_Scholars

Full database: https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/scholars-alumni/rhodes-scho...