The Most Famous

BADMINTON PLAYERS from Hong Kong

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This page contains a list of the greatest Chinese Badminton Players. The pantheon dataset contains 117 Badminton Players, 5 of which were born in Hong Kong. This makes Hong Kong the birth place of the 11th most number of Badminton Players behind Russia, and United Kingdom.

Top 5

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Chinese Badminton Players of all time. This list of famous Chinese Badminton Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Tse Ying Suet (b. 1991)

With an HPI of 37.92, Tse Ying Suet is the most famous Chinese Badminton Player.  Her biography has been translated into 13 different languages on wikipedia.

Tse Ying Suet (Chinese: 謝影雪; Jyutping: ze6 jing2 syut3, born 9 November 1991) is a Hong Kong badminton player. She competed at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics in the women's doubles event (with Poon Lok Yan). In 2012, she won the women's doubles title at the Japan Open tournament with Poon Lok Yan by beating four Japanese pairs consecutively. Tse competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Partnered with Tang Chun Man, she finished fourth in the mixed doubles, defeated by the Japanese pair Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino in the bronze medal match. Tse and Cheung Ka-long were the flagbearers for the Hong Kong team at the Olympic opening ceremony.

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2. Ng Ka Long (b. 1994)

With an HPI of 34.93, Ng Ka Long is the 2nd most famous Chinese Badminton Player.  His biography has been translated into 9 different languages.

Angus Ng Ka Long (born 24 June 1994) is a badminton player from Hong Kong. He has a career-high ranking of 6th in the men's singles discipline. He won the 2016 Hong Kong Super Series, the 2020 Thailand Masters and the 2023 German Open.

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3. Michelle Li (b. 1991)

With an HPI of 34.51, Michelle Li is the 3rd most famous Chinese Badminton Player.  Her biography has been translated into 14 different languages.

Michelle Li (born November 3, 1991) is a Canadian badminton player. Li is the 2014 Commonwealth Games champion and the first Canadian to win an individual gold medal in women's singles badminton at the Commonwealth Games. She has won gold in both singles and doubles at the Pan American Games and won the singles and team event titles from the Pan American Badminton Championships. As a competitor for Ontario, Li also won singles, doubles, and mixed team titles at the 2011 Canada Winter Games.

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4. Tang Chun Man (b. 1995)

With an HPI of 34.10, Tang Chun Man is the 4th most famous Chinese Badminton Player.  His biography has been translated into 11 different languages.

Jordan Tang Chun Man (Chinese: 鄧俊文; Jyutping: dang6 zeon3 man4, born 20 March 1995) is a Hong Kong badminton player. He started playing badminton at the age of seven, and joined the national team when he was 18. He won his first title in the 2016 Chinese Taipei Masters partnering with Tse Ying Suet.

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5. Cheung Ngan Yi (b. 1993)

With an HPI of 25.47, Cheung Ngan Yi is the 5th most famous Chinese Badminton Player.  Her biography has been translated into 7 different languages.

Cheung Ngan Yi (Chinese: 張雁宜; pinyin: Zhāng Yànyí; born 27 April 1993) is a Hong Kong badminton player.

People

Pantheon has 5 people classified as Chinese badminton players born between 1991 and 1995. Of these 5, 5 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Chinese badminton players include Tse Ying Suet, Ng Ka Long, and Michelle Li. As of April 2024, 5 new Chinese badminton players have been added to Pantheon including Tse Ying Suet, Ng Ka Long, and Michelle Li.

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