The Most Famous
ATHLETES from Jordan
This page contains a list of the greatest Jordanian Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 3,059 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 2
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.
1. Ahmad Abughaush (1996 - )
With an HPI of 25.49, Ahmad Abughaush is the most famous Jordanian Athlete. His biography has been translated into 23 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.
2. Saleh Al-Sharabaty (1998 - )
With an HPI of 15.94, Saleh Al-Sharabaty is the 2nd most famous Jordanian Athlete. His biography has been translated into 16 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 only 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.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as athletes born between 1996 and 1998. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living athletes include Ahmad Abughaush and Saleh Al-Sharabaty. As of April 2022, 1 new athletes have been added to Pantheon including Saleh Al-Sharabaty.
