The Most Famous
BADMINTON PLAYERS from Vietnam
This page contains a list of the greatest Vietnamese Badminton Players. The pantheon dataset contains 117 Badminton Players, 2 of which were born in Vietnam. This makes Vietnam the birth place of the 22nd most number of Badminton Players behind Guatemala, and Brazil.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Vietnamese Badminton Players of all time. This list of famous Vietnamese Badminton Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Nguyễn Tiến Minh (b. 1983)
With an HPI of 40.08, Nguyễn Tiến Minh is the most famous Vietnamese Badminton Player. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Nguyễn Tiến Minh (born February 12, 1983) is a Vietnamese badminton player. His best achievement to date was the bronze medal at the World Championship in 2013.
2. Nhat Nguyen (b. 2000)
With an HPI of 20.93, Nhat Nguyen is the 2nd most famous Vietnamese Badminton Player. His biography has been translated into 8 different languages.
Nhat Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Nhật, [ŋwiən˦ˀ˥˦ ɲət̚˧˨ʔ˨]; born 16 June 2000) is a Vietnamese-born Irish badminton player. Nguyen was born in the suburbs of Hanoi, Vietnam and moved to Cavan, Ireland with his parents and older sister, when he was six years old. He began representing Ireland internationally when he received his Irish passport and citizenship in 2017; before that he was unable to travel outside Ireland to compete overseas. He was the gold medalist at the 2016 European U17 Championships in the boys' singles event, and also won bronze in the doubles event partnered with Paul Reynolds. In the same year, he clinched the men's singles title at the Irish National Championships. Nguyen won his first senior international title at the Polish International in the men's doubles event with Reynolds, and the men's singles title at the Welsh International after that. He is the younger brother of Ireland's first European Weightlifting Championships medalist, Tham Nguyen Gough.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Vietnamese badminton players born between 1983 and 2000. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Vietnamese badminton players include Nguyễn Tiến Minh, and Nhat Nguyen. As of April 2024, 1 new Vietnamese badminton players have been added to Pantheon including Nhat Nguyen.
