The Most Famous
BASKETBALL PLAYERS from Austria
This page contains a list of the greatest Austrian Basketball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,757 Basketball Players, 1 of which were born in Austria. This makes Austria the birth place of the 70th most number of Basketball Players behind French Guiana, and Romania.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Austrian Basketball Players of all time. This list of famous Austrian Basketball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Jakob Pöltl (b. 1995)
With an HPI of 31.06, Jakob Pöltl is the most famous Austrian Basketball Player. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.
Jakob Pöltl (sometimes spelled Jakob Poeltl; German pronunciation: ['ja:kop 'pœltl]; born October 15, 1995) is an Austrian professional basketball player for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Utah Utes. In his sophomore year for the Utes, Pöltl was a consensus second-team All-American, and won the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award and Pete Newell Big Man Award as the top collegiate center and low-post player, respectively. After the season, he declared for the 2016 NBA draft, where the Toronto Raptors selected him in the first round with the ninth overall pick. He was traded to the San Antonio Spurs in July 2018. After five seasons with the team he was traded back to the Raptors in February 2023.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Austrian basketball players born between 1995 and 1995. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Austrian basketball players include Jakob Pöltl.
