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The Most Famous

ATHLETES from Luxembourg

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This page contains a list of the greatest Luxembourger Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 3,059 Athletes, 1 of which were born in Luxembourg. This makes Luxembourg the birth place of the 115th most number of Athletes behind South Sudan and Jordan.

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

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1. Josy Barthel (1927 - 1992)

With an HPI of 55.09, Josy Barthel is the most famous Luxembourger Athlete.  His biography has been translated into 27 different languages on wikipedia.

Joseph ("Josy") Barthel (24 April 1927 – 7 July 1992) was a Luxembourgish athlete. He was the surprise winner of the Men's 1500 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics, and the only athlete representing Luxembourg to have won a gold medal at the Olympics. Besides athletics, Barthel also led successful careers in both chemistry and politics.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as athletes born between 1927 and 1927. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased athletes include Josy Barthel.

Deceased Athletes

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