The Most Famous
ATHLETES from Peru
This page contains a list of the greatest Peruvian Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 3,059 Athletes, 1 of which were born in Peru. This makes Peru the birth place of the 117th most number of Athletes behind Luxembourg and Guernsey.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Peruvian Athletes of all time. This list of famous Peruvian Athletes is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Edwin Vásquez (1922 - 1993)
With an HPI of 44.94, Edwin Vásquez is the most famous Peruvian Athlete. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Edwin Gonzalo Vásquez Cam (28 July 1922 – 9 March 1993) was an Olympic sport shooter from Peru. He won a gold medal in the 50 m pistol event at the 1948 Summer Olympics, winning Peru's first and only Olympic gold medal to date. Vásquez also won the free pistol event at the 1951 Pan American Games, while placing third in the team pistol event.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as athletes born between 1922 and 1922. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased athletes include Edwin Vásquez.
