The Most Famous

ATHLETES from Jordan

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This page contains a list of the greatest Jordanian Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 6,025 Athletes, 2 of which were born in Jordan. This makes Jordan the birth place of the 114th most number of Athletes behind Grenada, and South Sudan.

Top 9

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

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1. Ahmad Abughaush (b. 1996)

With an HPI of 27.84, Ahmad Abughaush is the most famous Jordanian Athlete.  His biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.

Ahmad Abughaush (Arabic: أحمد أبو غوش; born 1 February 1996) is a Jordanian taekwondo athlete. He won the gold medal in the 68 kg category at the 2016 Olympics. This was Jordan's first Olympic medal in any sport, excluding a bronze in 1988 when taekwondo was a demonstration sport.

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2. Saleh Al-Sharabaty (b. 1998)

With an HPI of 20.18, Saleh Al-Sharabaty is the 2nd most famous Jordanian Athlete.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

Saleh Salah El-Sharabaty (Arabic: صالح صلاح الشرباتي; born September 12, 1998) is a Jordanian taekwondo athlete and a member of the Jordanian Taekwondo team where he competes in the -80kg weight. At the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, he won silver and thus became the second Jordanian to win an Olympic medal. Previously, he won the bronze medal on the welterweight division (80 kg) at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. He started doing taekwondo at the age of seven at the Jabal Amman Centre. He has a degree in marketing from the University of Applied Sciences.

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3. Obada Al-Kasbeh (b. 1994)

With an HPI of 0.00, Obada Al-Kasbeh is the 3rd most famous Jordanian Athlete.  His biography has been translated into different languages.

Obada Al-Kasbeh (born 30 July 1994) is a Jordanian boxer. He competed in the men's light welterweight competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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4. Mohammad Al-Wadi (b. 1985)

With an HPI of 0.00, Mohammad Al-Wadi is the 4th most famous Jordanian Athlete.  His biography has been translated into different languages.

Mohammad Al-Wadi (born 17 August 1985) is a Jordanian boxer. He competed in the men's featherweight event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

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5. Amro Al-Wir (b. 2001)

With an HPI of 0.00, Amro Al-Wir is the 5th most famous Jordanian Athlete.  His biography has been translated into different languages.

Amro Basil Issa Al-Wir (Arabic: عمرو باسل عيسى الور; born 23 January 2001) is a Jordanian swimmer. He competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics.

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6. Ibrahim Bisharat (b. 1984)

With an HPI of 0.00, Ibrahim Bisharat is the 6th most famous Jordanian Athlete.  His biography has been translated into different languages.

Ibrahim Hani Bisharat (Arabic: ابراهيم هاني بشارات; born February 22, 1984, in Amman) is a Jordanian equestrian rider. He is a three-time Olympian and is currently ranked no. 285 in the world by Fédération Équestre Internationale (FEI). At age twenty, Bisharat made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he competed in the individual jumping event, along with his horse Qwinto. He placed fifty-second at the end of qualifying rounds, with a total of forty-two penalties. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Bisharat rode his second horse Sam-Sam in the individual jumping event, where he received a total of forty-one penalties in the second qualifying round, and was thereby eliminated from the competition. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Bisharat selected his third and current horse Vrieda O to ride and compete for the third time in the individual jumping event. Unlike his two previous games, Bisharat was immediately eliminated at the first stage of the qualifying rounds after knocking down three fences, and incurring time penalties, which placed him in the bottom fifteen places of a seventy-five strong field. Bisharat is currently coached by Dutch-born Belgian equestrian rider Jos Lansink, a seven-time Olympian and gold medalist for the jumping event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

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7. Julyana Al-Sadeq (b. 1994)

With an HPI of 0.00, Julyana Al-Sadeq is the 7th most famous Jordanian Athlete.  Her biography has been translated into different languages.

Julyana Al-Sadeq (Arabic: جوليانا الصادق; born 9 December 1994) is a Jordanian taekwondo athlete. She won the gold medal at the 2018 Asian Games on the women's 67 kg weight category. In December 2022, she became the first Jordanian and Arab woman to be ranked world number one following her victory at the Saudi Grand Prix.

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8. Zeyad Ishaish (b. 1998)

With an HPI of 0.00, Zeyad Ishaish is the 8th most famous Jordanian Athlete.  His biography has been translated into different languages.

Zeyad Eashash (Arabic: زياد عشيش; born 23 October 1998) is a Jordanian amateur boxer who won silver at the 2022 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships. He represented Jordan at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

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9. Alex Davis (b. )

With an HPI of 0.00, Alex Davis is the 9th most famous Jordanian Athlete.  Their biography has been translated into different languages.

Alex Davis may refer to: Alex Davis (footballer), New Zealand football player Alex Davis (basketball) (born 1992), American basketball player Alex Davis (rugby union) (born 1992), England rugby union player

People

Pantheon has 9 people classified as Jordanian athletes born between 1984 and 2001. Of these 9, 9 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Jordanian athletes include Ahmad Abughaush, Saleh Al-Sharabaty, and Obada Al-Kasbeh. As of April 2024, 7 new Jordanian athletes have been added to Pantheon including Obada Al-Kasbeh, Mohammad Al-Wadi, and Amro Al-Wir.

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