John Virgo
Sign in to saveJohn Trevor Virgo was an English professional snooker player and broadcaster. After achieving success as an amateur, Virgo turned professional in 1976 at age 30 and won four professional titles during his career, including the 1979 UK Championship, where he defeated the reigning World Champion Terry Griffiths 14–13 in the final. A runner-up at the 1980 Champion of Champions, he was a semi-finalist at the 1979 World Championship and the 1986 British Open. He retired from professional play in 1994.
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Vinony's link graph records 267 inbound references to John Virgo, and connects out to 1981 UK Championship, 1978 UK Championship and 1979 UK Championship.
It is catalogued under topics including 1946 births, 2026 deaths and BBC sports presenters and reporters.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 12
Top works
- John Virgo : Say Goodnight, JV
- Let Me Tell You about Alex
- Amazing Snooker Trick Shots
- Surveyors' liability
- McMeel and Virgo on Financial Advice and Financial Products
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Salford
- Place of death
- Spain
- Occupation
- television presenter
- Employer
- BBC
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Native language
- English language
- Sport
- snooker
- Country for sport
- England
- Image
- John Virgo crop.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1946-03-04
- Commons category
- John Virgo
- century breaks
- 39
- date of death
- 2026-02-04
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