The Most Famous
BASKETBALL PLAYERS from Benin
This page contains a list of the greatest Beninese Basketball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,757 Basketball Players, 1 of which were born in Benin. This makes Benin the birth place of the 75th most number of Basketball Players behind Haiti, and Taiwan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Beninese Basketball Players of all time. This list of famous Beninese Basketball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Isabelle Yacoubou (b. 1986)
With an HPI of 27.48, Isabelle Yacoubou is the most famous Beninese Basketball Player. Her biography has been translated into 23 different languages on wikipedia.
Isabelle Yacoubou (born 21 April 1986) is a Beninese-born French basketball player. She plays for France women's national basketball team. She has competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics where France won a silver medal. Since May 2004 she also holds the Beninese record in the shot put at 15.15 meters. Returning in 2022 to her training club Tarbes, she was injured in January 2024 during a match against Charleville-Mézières. On February 28, Tarbes GB announced that Yacoubou was stopping her playing career and joining the club's management.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Beninese basketball players born between 1986 and 1986. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Beninese basketball players include Isabelle Yacoubou.
