The Most Famous

ATHLETES from Singapore

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This page contains a list of the greatest Singaporean Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 6,025 Athletes, 13 of which were born in Singapore. This makes Singapore the birth place of the 88th most number of Athletes behind Guatemala, and Montenegro.

Top 10

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Singaporean Athletes of all time. This list of famous Singaporean 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 Singaporean Athletes.

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1. Marcelo Herrera (b. )

With an HPI of 32.51, Marcelo Herrera is the most famous Singaporean Athlete.  Their biography has been translated into 4 different languages on wikipedia.

Marcelo Herrera may refer to: Marcelo Herrera (footballer, born 1966), Argentine midfielder for Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield Marcelo Herrera (footballer, born 1992), Argentine defender for Club Atlético Lanús Marcelo Herrera (footballer, born 1998), Argentine defender for San Lorenzo de Almagro

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2. Shanti Pereira (b. 1996)

With an HPI of 25.23, Shanti Pereira is the 2nd most famous Singaporean Athlete.  Her biography has been translated into 13 different languages.

Veronica Shanti Pereira (born 20 September 1996) is a Singaporean track and field athlete who specialises in the 100 m, 200 m, 4 x 100 m, and 4 x 400 m. She holds the 100 m national record (11.20s), 200 m national record (22.57s), 400 m national record (53.67s), 200 m SEA Games record (22.69s), and the 200 m Asian Athletics Championships games record (22.70s). She was ranked 1st in Asia in 2023 for both the 100 m and 200 m based on World Athletics' records.

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3. Thomas Koechlin (b. 1991)

With an HPI of 22.67, Thomas Koechlin is the 3rd most famous Singaporean Athlete.  His biography has been translated into 6 different languages.

Thomas Koechlin (born 4 October 1991) is a Swiss slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2012. Koechlin won a silver medal in the C1 event at the 2017 European Championships in Tacen. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, finishing in 13th place in the C1 event after being eliminated in the semifinal.

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4. Maximilian Maeder (b. 2006)

With an HPI of 20.70, Maximilian Maeder is the 4th most famous Singaporean Athlete.  His biography has been translated into 9 different languages.

Maximilian Maeder (born 12 September 2006) is a Singaporean Formula Kite professional athlete. He is the reigning Formula Kite World, Asiad, Asian and European champion. He holds the distinction of being the youngest winner in any Olympic sailing class competition, achieving this at the age of 16. Maeder competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the inaugural Men's Formula Kite event, where he reached the finals and won the bronze medal, becoming the country's second native-born Olympic medalist. Maeder is also a three-time youth world sailing champion in consecutive years from 2021 to 2023 and won various open championships across Europe, Asia and Pan America. Since the 2021 European Championships, he has consistently secured podium finishes in every competition he has entered.

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5. Alston Ryan (b. 1993)

With an HPI of 20.07, Alston Ryan is the 5th most famous Singaporean Athlete.  His biography has been translated into 5 different languages.

Alston Conrad S. Ryan (born 9 October 1993) is an Antigua and Barbuda boxer. He competed in the men's lightweight event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

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6. Amita Berthier (b. 2000)

With an HPI of 16.93, Amita Berthier is the 6th most famous Singaporean Athlete.  Her biography has been translated into 7 different languages.

Amita Marie Nicolette Berthier OLY (born 15 December 2000) is a Singaporean, left-handed foil fencer. She attended the University of Notre Dame from 2018 to 2023, clinching 4 individual NCAA Fencing Championships medals. Representing Singapore, Berthier has won 3 SEA Games gold medals and qualified for 2 Olympic Games. On 16 December 2017, Berthier became the first Singaporean fencer to win a Junior World Cup title at the Havana leg in Cuba in the eight-leg series.

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7. Kimberly Lim (b. 1996)

With an HPI of 15.04, Kimberly Lim is the 7th most famous Singaporean Athlete.  Her biography has been translated into 4 different languages.

Lim Min (born 26 August 1996), known as Kimberly Lim, is a Singaporean sailor. She was a multiple medalist in various sailing classes in various editions of the Asian Games and also the champion of the Optimist World Championships in 2011. She participated in the 2020 Summer Olympics.

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8. Ryan Lo (b. 1997)

With an HPI of 13.46, Ryan Lo is the 8th most famous Singaporean Athlete.  His biography has been translated into 4 different languages.

Ryan Lo Jun Han (born 26 February 1997) is a Singaporean sailor. Lo is the reigning Asiad champion of the ILCA 7 class and competed in the Laser event at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He is also a three-time SEA Games individual gold medalist of the same discipline. On July 6, 2024, the Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC), designated to him and the female sprinter athlete Shanti Pereira as the flag bearers to the París 2024 Olympic Games.

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9. Sandra Uptagrafft (b. 1971)

With an HPI of 12.23, Sandra Uptagrafft is the 9th most famous Singaporean Athlete.  Her biography has been translated into 3 different languages.

Sandra Uptagrafft (born April 12, 1971 in Singapore) is an American sport shooter. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's 10 metre air pistol, and finished in 28th place. She also competed in the Women's 25 metre pistol event and also finished 28th in that. She has won gold and silver medals in the Pan American Games. She represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

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10. Jonathan Chan (b. 1997)

With an HPI of 6.76, Jonathan Chan is the 10th most famous Singaporean Athlete.  His biography has been translated into 4 different languages.

Jonathan Chan Fan Keng (Chinese: 曾繁铿; born 10 May 1997) is a Singaporean former diver. He competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics after his qualification through a victory in the 2019 Asian Diving Cup in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 8 September 2019. He is the first Singaporean diver to have qualified for the Olympic Games. Due to his Olympic qualification, Chan was nominated for the Straits Times Athlete of the Year award in 2020.

People

Pantheon has 13 people classified as Singaporean athletes born between 1971 and 2006. Of these 13, 13 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Singaporean athletes include Marcelo Herrera, Shanti Pereira, and Thomas Koechlin. As of April 2024, 13 new Singaporean athletes have been added to Pantheon including Marcelo Herrera, Shanti Pereira, and Thomas Koechlin.

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