1. James Warren White was born on 2 May 1962 and is an English professional snooker player who has won ten ranking events.
55 Facts About Jimmy White
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Jimmy White has won two of snooker's Triple Crown events, the 1984 Masters and the 1992 UK Championship.
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Jimmy White is a record four-time World Seniors Champion, winning in 2010,2019,2020 and 2023.
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Jimmy White won the English Amateur Championship in 1979 and he turned professional in 1980.
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Jimmy White reached his first World Championship final in 1984 and won his first ranking event at The Classic in 1986.
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Jimmy White's ten ranking event titles currently place him twelfth on the all-time list of ranking event winners.
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Jimmy White has made over 300 century breaks in professional competition, and was the first left-handed player, and the second player overall, to record a maximum break at the World Championship.
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Jimmy White is a member of the World Snooker Tour Hall of Fame.
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James Warren Jimmy White was born on 2 May 1962 in Tooting, London, England, and studied at Ernest Bevin School.
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Jimmy White never achieved academic success, as he was often truant from school from the age of eight or nine, spending more and more time at Ted Zanincelli's snooker hall, Zan's.
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Jimmy White played his "hero" and future friend Alex Higgins for the first time, aged 13, in an exhibition in Balham.
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Jimmy White won the 1979 English Amateur Championship a month before his 17th birthday, becoming the youngest champion at the event.
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Jimmy White was the top seed for the championship, and won all six matches in his qualifying group.
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Jimmy White had already been accepted as a professional by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association before the World Amateur Championship, to take effect after the tournament.
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Jimmy White's makeover was featured on the BBC TV news and current affairs programme Newsnight.
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Jimmy White lost to Reardon in the final of the non-ranking 1983 International Masters.
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In 1984, Jimmy White won his first Triple Crown event at the Masters, although the concept of the triple crown did not exist in snooker at the time.
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Jimmy White followed this success by reaching his first World Championship final.
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In February 1985, Jimmy White successfully won a court case against Lisberg, who had sought to prevent him changing management to Golden Leisure.
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Jimmy White changed his management again in September 1986, joining Barry Hearn's Matchroom stable; the addition of Jimmy White meant that Matchroom managed seven of the top 13 players.
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Jimmy White was part of the England team that were crowned the 1988 Snooker World Cup winners.
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Jimmy White collected his second British Open title, beating Steve Davis in the semi-finals and James Wattana in the final.
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Jimmy White was drawn against Tony Drago in the first round of the 1992 World Championship.
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Jimmy White has stated that this was among the best matches he has ever played.
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At the 1995 World Championship, Jimmy White was involved in a controversial first-round match against Peter Francisco.
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Jimmy White lost his first eleven matches of the season and a first round defeat at the 1997 World Championship against Anthony Hamilton saw him drop out of the top 16 in the world rankings for the first time in 15 years.
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Jimmy White entered the 1999 World Pool Championship where he was knocked out of the tournament by Efren Reyes in a final-frame decider in their last 32 clash.
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Jimmy White then defeated Marco Fu and John Higgins to reach the quarter-finals of the Masters, and he followed this up with a run to the quarter-finals of the 2000 World Snooker Championship.
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Jimmy White's tenth ranking event title came in April 2004, when White defeated Shaun Murphy, John Parrott, Ian McCulloch, Ebdon and Paul Hunter to win the Players Championship in Glasgow.
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Jimmy White then won the Sangsom 6-red World Grand Prix in Bangkok, Thailand, putting an end to his five-year title drought.
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At a Legends Tour event in June 2011, Jimmy White compiled a maximum break, unusual for the fact that he potted the first ball off the, meaning his opponent never played a shot in the frame.
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At the 2013 World Seniors Championship, Jimmy White lost to Hendry in the quarter-final.
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Jimmy White won his first professional title in seven years after winning the inaugural 2017 UK Seniors Championship, part of the World Seniors Tour.
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At the 2023 German Masters in February, Jimmy White became the first player aged over 60 to reach the last 16 of a ranking event since Charlton in 1992.
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Jimmy White won a record fourth World Senior's Championship in May 2023.
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Jimmy White was then awarded with an invitational tour card for the next two seasons by the sport's governing body.
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Jimmy White's ten ranking event titles place him twelfth on the all time list of ranking event winners, and he has compiled more than 300 century breaks during his career.
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Jimmy White is the most successful player ever at the World Seniors Championship having won a record four titles.
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Jimmy White was inducted into the World Snooker Tour Hall of Fame in 2017.
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In 2018, Jimmy White began a relationship with beauty queen Jade Slusarczyk, over 20 years his junior.
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Jimmy White said that he went from taking cocaine to crack following his defeat by Steve Davis in the 1984 World Snooker Championship final.
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Jimmy White paid the ransom, and Splinter was returned to him.
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Jimmy White won the second Poker Million tournament, held in 2003, which had Steve Davis at the final table.
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Jimmy White was good friends with professional poker player, Dave "The Devilfish" Ulliott.
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Jimmy White is good friends with the Rolling Stones member Ronnie Wood.
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In 2025, Jimmy White revealed that he had been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, a year or two previously.
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Jimmy White played himself in Stephen Chow's 1990 kung fu and billiards comedy film, Legend of the Dragon.
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Jimmy White was a subject of This Is Your Life in 1993.
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Jimmy White appeared in the 9th series of I'm a Celebrity.
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Jimmy White was portrayed by James Bailey in the BBC film The Rack Pack, which focused on the rivalry between Alex Higgins and Steve Davis in the 1980s.
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Jimmy White was featured in the 2021 BBC documentary series Gods of Snooker, and was the main focus of the last of the three episodes.
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On 23 September 2019, Jimmy White published an apology on his official Facebook page to Kirk Stevens, stating that in his autobiography Second Wind he misremembered a few stories as occurring with Kirk Stevens that in fact did not.
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Jimmy White further stated that he did not intend his words to be interpreted as meaning that Kirk Stevens introduced him to crack cocaine or that Stevens ever played WPBSA snooker under the influence of drugs.
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In Cueball World, Jimmy White appeared in live-action scenes during the game.
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Jimmy White is currently a commentator for snooker coverage on TNT Sports.