The Most Famous
ATHLETES from North Macedonia
This page contains a list of the greatest Macedonian Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 3,059 Athletes, 2 of which were born in North Macedonia. This makes North Macedonia the birth place of the 107th most number of Athletes behind Senegal and Djibouti.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Macedonian Athletes of all time. This list of famous Macedonian Athletes is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Milka Babović (1928 - 2020)
With an HPI of 49.89, Milka Babović is the most famous Macedonian Athlete. Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Milena "Milka" Babović (27 October 1928 – 26 December 2020) was a Croatian sprint and hurdles runner and journalist. She won numerous sprinting events in the former Yugoslavia, and was selected the best athlete several times. She also had a noted career as a sports journalist and editor in television.
2. Dejan Georgievski (1999 - )
With an HPI of 18.84, Dejan Georgievski is the 2nd most famous Macedonian Athlete. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages.
Dejan Georgievski (Macedonian: Дејан Георгиевски; born 8 May 1999) is a Macedonian professional taekwondo practitioner who represents North Macedonia internationally in the World Taekwondo Tournaments in the men's heavyweight (+87 kg) class. He is an Olympic silver medalist in the men's +80 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as athletes born between 1928 and 1999. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living athletes include Dejan Georgievski. The most famous deceased athletes include Milka Babović. As of April 2022, 2 new athletes have been added to Pantheon including Milka Babović and Dejan Georgievski.
