The Most Famous

BADMINTON PLAYERS from Taiwan

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This page contains a list of the greatest Taiwanese Badminton Players. The pantheon dataset contains 117 Badminton Players, 1 of which were born in Taiwan. This makes Taiwan the birth place of the 11th most number of Badminton Players behind United Kingdom, and Spain.

Top 5

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Taiwanese Badminton Players of all time. This list of famous Taiwanese 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. Tai Tzu-ying (b. 1994)

With an HPI of 34.52, Tai Tzu-ying is the most famous Taiwanese Badminton Player.  Her biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.

Tai Tzu-ying (Chinese: 戴資穎; pinyin: Dài Zīyǐng; Wade–Giles: Tai Tzu-ying; born 20 June 1994) is a Taiwanese badminton player. At the age of 22, she achieved world no.1 in the BWF women's singles ranking in December 2016, and has held that title for 214 weeks, the longest in BWF history. Tai was the women's singles silver medalist in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and the 2021 BWF World Championships. She was gold medalist in the 2017 Summer Universiade and the 2018 Asian Games. She was the champion of BWF Super Series Finals/BWF World Tour Finals a record four times (2014, 2016, 2020, 2023). She was thrice the champion of the All England Open (2017, 2018, 2020), and of the Asian Championships (2017, 2018, 2023).

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2. Chou Tien-chen (b. 1990)

With an HPI of 31.29, Chou Tien-chen is the 2nd most famous Taiwanese Badminton Player.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Chou Tien-chen (Chinese: 周天成; pinyin: Zhōu Tiānchéng; born 8 January 1990) is a Taiwanese badminton player. He became the first local shuttler in 17 years to win the men's singles title of the Chinese Taipei Open in 2016 since Indonesian-born Fung Permadi won it in 1999. He won his first BWF Super Series title at the 2014 French Open, beating Wang Zhengming of China 10–21, 25–23, 21–19 in the finals. He is the record holder of three consecutive Hylo Open titles from 2012 till 2014.

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3. Wang Chi-lin (b. 1995)

With an HPI of 25.86, Wang Chi-lin is the 3rd most famous Taiwanese Badminton Player.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Wang Chi-lin (Chinese: 王齊麟; pinyin: Wáng Qílín; born 18 January 1995) is a Taiwanese badminton player who specializes in doubles. He is the 2020 and 2024 Olympics men's doubles champion, becoming the first unseeded men's doubles pair ever in olympic history to win consecutive gold medals. He also won the men's doubles bronze medals at the 2018 World Championships, 2022 Asian Games, and at the 2023 Asian Championships. He reached a career high as World number 2 in September 2022 with his current partner Lee Yang. Wang also competed in the mixed doubles, winning the gold medal at the 2017 Summer Universiade with Lee Chia-hsin, with their career high were number 10 in the BWF World Rankings in June 2018.

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4. Kristen Tsai (b. 1995)

With an HPI of 0.00, Kristen Tsai is the 4th most famous Taiwanese Badminton Player.  Her biography has been translated into different languages.

Kristen Tsai (born 11 July 1995) is a Taiwanese born Canadian badminton player. She is the women's doubles champion at the 2019 Pan American Games, fifth time Pan Am Champion winning the women's singles title in 2012, and then the women's doubles title in 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2022.

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5. Chen Hsuan-yu (b. 1993)

With an HPI of 0.00, Chen Hsuan-yu is the 5th most famous Taiwanese Badminton Player.  Her biography has been translated into different languages.

Wendy Chen Hsuan-yu (Traditional Chinese: 陳煊渝; born 1 June 1993) is an Australian badminton player who has represented her country at the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

People

Pantheon has 5 people classified as Taiwanese badminton players born between 1990 and 1995. Of these 5, 5 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Taiwanese badminton players include Tai Tzu-ying, Chou Tien-chen, and Wang Chi-lin. As of April 2024, 4 new Taiwanese badminton players have been added to Pantheon including Chou Tien-chen, Wang Chi-lin, and Kristen Tsai.

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