The Most Famous
ATHLETES from Hong Kong
This page contains a list of the greatest Chinese Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 6,025 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.
Top 2
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.
1. Freddie Wolff (1910 - 1988)
With an HPI of 44.63, Freddie Wolff is the most famous Chinese Athlete. His biography has been translated into 16 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.
2. Grace Lau (b. 1991)
With an HPI of 24.80, Grace Lau is the 2nd most famous Chinese Athlete. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Grace Lau Mo-sheung (Chinese: 劉慕裳; born 19 October 1991) is a Hong Kong karateka. She won bronze in the women’s kata event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, becoming the first Hong Kong athlete to win an Olympic medal in karate. She is a three-time medallist in the women's individual kata event at the World Karate Championships. She is also a medallist in this event at the Asian Games and the World Beach Games. She is a six-time medalist, including gold, at the Asian Karate Championships.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Chinese athletes born between 1910 and 1991. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Chinese athletes include Grace Lau. The most famous deceased Chinese athletes include Freddie Wolff. As of April 2024, 1 new Chinese athletes have been added to Pantheon including Grace Lau.
