The Most Famous
BASKETBALL PLAYERS from Cyprus
This page contains a list of the greatest Cypriot Basketball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,757 Basketball Players, 1 of which were born in Cyprus. This makes Cyprus the birth place of the 67th most number of Basketball Players behind Martinique, and Kyrgyzstan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Cypriot Basketball Players of all time. This list of famous Cypriot Basketball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Sasha Vezenkov (b. 1995)
With an HPI of 33.28, Sasha Vezenkov is the most famous Cypriot Basketball Player. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.
Aleksandar Vezenkov (Bulgarian: Александър Везенков; Greek: Αλέξανδρος Βεζένκοφ; born 6 August 1995), most commonly known as Sasha Vezenkov (Bulgarian: Саша Везенков; Greek: Σάσα Βεζένκοφ), is a Bulgarian professional basketball player for Olympiacos of the Greek Basket League (GBL) and the EuroLeague. Standing at 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in), Vezenkov is a stretch power forward. A two-time All-EuroLeague First Team selection, he was elected EuroLeague MVP in 2023 and reached the EuroLeague final with Olympiacos the same year.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Cypriot basketball players born between 1995 and 1995. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Cypriot basketball players include Sasha Vezenkov.
