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The Most Famous

ATHLETES from Dominican Republic

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This page contains a list of the greatest Dominican Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 3,059 Athletes, 1 of which were born in Dominican Republic. This makes Dominican Republic the birth place of the 138th most number of Athletes behind The Gambia and Guatemala.

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

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1. Luguelín Santos (1993 - )

With an HPI of 24.91, Luguelín Santos is the most famous Dominican Athlete.  His biography has been translated into 25 different languages on wikipedia.

Luguelín Miguel Santos Aquino (born 12 November 1992) is a Dominican sprinter, who specialises in the 400 m. He was the silver medallist in the event at the 2012 London Olympics at the age of eighteen. His personal best is 44.11 seconds. Santos emerged with two gold medals at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics and made his senior breakthrough at the 2011 Pan American Games, taking individual and relay silver medals with Dominican national record times. He belongs to the Dominican olympic program CRESO.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as athletes born between 1993 and 1993. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living athletes include Luguelín Santos.

Living Athletes

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