The Most Famous
ATHLETES from Zambia
This page contains a list of the greatest Zambian Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 6,025 Athletes, 2 of which were born in Zambia. This makes Zambia the birth place of the 108th most number of Athletes behind Djibouti, and North Macedonia.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Zambian Athletes of all time. This list of famous Zambian Athletes is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Samuel Matete (b. 1968)
With an HPI of 39.29, Samuel Matete is the most famous Zambian Athlete. His biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.
Samuel Matete (born 27 July 1968 in Chingola) is a retired male track and field athlete from Zambia, who competed mainly in 400 metres hurdles.
2. Gillian Cowley (b. 1955)
With an HPI of 30.63, Gillian Cowley is the 2nd most famous Zambian Athlete. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Gillian Margaret "Gill" Cowley (born July 8, 1955 in Kitwe, Northern Rhodesia) is a former hockey player from Zimbabwe, who was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Because of the boycott of the United States and other countries, only one team was available to compete in the Women's Hockey Tournament: the hosting USSR team. A late request was sent to the government of the African nation, which quickly assembled a team less than a week before the competition started. To everyone's surprise they won, claiming Zimbabwe's only medal in the 1980 Games. The team became known as the "Golden Girls."
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Zambian athletes born between 1955 and 1968. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Zambian athletes include Samuel Matete, and Gillian Cowley.
