







The Most Famous
Athletes from Uganda
This page contains a list of the greatest Ugandans Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 6,025 Athletes, 22 of which were born in Uganda. This makes Uganda the birth place of the 75th most number of Athletes behind Peru and Kyrgyzstan.
Top 10 Ugandan Athletes
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Ugandans Athletes of all time. This list of famous Ugandans 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 Ugandans Athletes.
- #1

John Akii-Bua
1949 - 1997
HPI 59.3530 langsUgandan hurdler
- #2

Joshua Cheptegei
b. 1996
HPI 52.6340 langsUgandan long-distance runner
- #3

Lee Jun-ho
b. 0
HPI 48.425 langsWikimedia disambiguation page
- #4

Davis Kamoga
b. 1968
HPI 44.9220 langsUgandan sprinter
- #5

Stephen Kiprotich
b. 1989
HPI 44.8434 langsUgandan long-distance runner
- #6

Sylvia Jebiwott Kibet
b. 1984
HPI 43.8423 langsKenyan long-distance runner
- #7

Jacob Kiplimo
b. 2000
HPI 42.9425 langsUgandan male long-distance runner
- #8

Peruth Chemutai
b. 1999
HPI 39.3033 langsUgandan athletics competitor
- #9

Halimah Nakaayi
b. 1994
HPI 36.6325 langsUgandan middle-distance runner
- #10

Victor Kiplangat
b. 1999
HPI 36.5819 langsUgandan athletics competitor
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Ugandans Athletes grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.








