Louis Baillon

Louis Charles Baillon (5 August 1881 – 2 September 1965) was a Falkland Islander sportsman and businessman. Born in the Islands, he would eventually move to England with his family in 1888 and settle in Church Brampton. There, he practiced many professional sport such as being a football player for Wandsworth AFC and a lawn tennis player for Northamptonshire's team.

He started field hockey as a part of Northampton's team and then earned nine caps as part of the England men's national field hockey team. As part of the team, they had won the gold medal in the team competition at the 1908 Summer Olympics. He would become the first and only Olympic gold medalist from the Falkland Islands as of June 2025.

Baillon would eventually marry Mildred Isobel Green in 1910, who was a player for the England women's national field hockey team. They would have five children. Baillon would eventually serve in the military during World War I and remained active in the sport. After the war, he worked for Phipps NBC, later becoming the chairman of the company. Provided by Wikipedia