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The Most Famous

AMERICAN FOOTBALL PLAYERS from South Korea

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This page contains a list of the greatest South Korean American Football Players. The pantheon dataset contains 55 American Football Players, 1 of which were born in South Korea. This makes South Korea the birth place of the 3rd most number of American Football Players behind United States and Philippines.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary South Korean American Football Players of all time. This list of famous South Korean American Football Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Hines Ward (1976 - )

With an HPI of 24.33, Hines Ward is the most famous South Korean American Football Player.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.

Hines Edward Ward Jr. (born March 8, 1976) is an American former professional football wide receiver of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs and was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the third round of the 1998 NFL Draft. Ward played his entire professional career for the Steelers and he became the team's all-time leader in receptions, receiving yardage and touchdown receptions. Ward was voted MVP of Super Bowl XL and upon retirement was one of eleven NFL players to have at least 1,000 career receptions. Ward is often regarded as one of the best wide receivers of the 2000s, as well as one of key figures for the Steelers' success during the 2000s. Aside from his career in the NFL, Ward has appeared in various forms of film and television media, including the reality TV series Dancing with the Stars and brief cameos in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises and in the television series The Walking Dead. He was a studio analyst for NBC's Football Night in America from 2012 to 2015. Ward joined CNN and HLN in May 2016. He was the player relations executive of the Alliance of American Football. In 2019, Ward began his coaching career as an offensive assistant for the New York Jets, working with wide receivers coach Shawn Jefferson. In 2021, Ward was hired by Florida Atlantic as special assistant to the head coach. Born in Seoul, South Korea to a Korean mother and African-American father, Ward grew up in the Atlanta area. He has become an advocate for the social acceptance of foreigners in Korea, especially blended or mixed race youth.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as american football players born between 1976 and 1976. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living american football players include Hines Ward.

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