







The Most Famous
Athletes from Philippines
This page contains a list of the greatest Filipinos Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 6,025 Athletes, 22 of which were born in Philippines. This makes Philippines the birth place of the 76th most number of Athletes behind Kyrgyzstan and Uganda.
Top 10 Filipino Athletes
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Filipinos Athletes of all time. This list of famous Filipinos Athletes is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Filipinos Athletes.
- #1

Efren Reyes
b. 1954
HPI 63.3419 langsFilipino pool player
- #2

José Villanueva
1913 - 1983
HPI 58.4818 langsFilippino Olympic boxer (1913–1983)
- #3

Miguel White
1909 - 1942
HPI 47.2718 langsFilipino athlete (1909–1942)
- #4

EJ Obiena
b. 1995
HPI 41.7821 langsFilipino athletics competitor
- #5

Lydia de Vega
1964 - 2022
HPI 40.8220 langsFilipina athlete (1964–2022)
- #6

Hidilyn Diaz
b. 1991
HPI 40.1334 langsFilipino weightlifter and airwoman
- #7

Roel Velasco
b. 1969
HPI 35.7916 langsFilippine boxer
- #8

Iván González
b. 0
HPI 34.612 langsWikimedia disambiguation page
- #9

Wang Zheng
b. 0
HPI 34.555 langsWikimedia disambiguation page
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Filipinos Athletes grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.













