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The Most Famous

ATHLETES from Hong Kong

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This page contains a list of the greatest Chinese Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 3,059 Athletes, 1 of which were born in Hong Kong. This makes Hong Kong the birth place of the 120th most number of Athletes behind Mozambique and Iraq.

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

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1. Freddie Wolff (1910 - 1988)

With an HPI of 41.51, Freddie Wolff is the most famous Chinese Athlete.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.

Frederick Ferdinand Wolff, CBE, TD (13 October 1910 – 26 January 1988) was a British athlete, winner of gold medal in 4 × 400 m relay at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as athletes born between 1910 and 1910. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased athletes include Freddie Wolff. As of April 2022, 1 new athletes have been added to Pantheon including Freddie Wolff.

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