The Most Famous
BASKETBALL PLAYERS from Dominican Republic
This page contains a list of the greatest Dominican Basketball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,757 Basketball Players, 1 of which were born in Dominican Republic. This makes Dominican Republic the birth place of the 72nd most number of Basketball Players behind Austria, and Venezuela.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Dominican Basketball Players of all time. This list of famous Dominican Basketball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Al Horford (b. 1986)
With an HPI of 36.55, Al Horford is the most famous Dominican Basketball Player. His biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.
Alfred Joel Horford Reynoso (born June 3, 1986), nicknamed "Big Al", is a Dominican professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is a five-time NBA All-Star and won the 2024 NBA Finals. Horford played college basketball for the Florida Gators and was the starting center on their back-to-back National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championships teams in 2006 and 2007. He was drafted with the third overall pick in the 2007 NBA draft by the Atlanta Hawks, with whom he played nine seasons before signing with the Celtics as a free agent in the 2016 off-season. After three seasons in Boston, Horford signed with the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2019 offseason and played a season with them before being traded in the 2020 offseason to the Oklahoma City Thunder. Prior to the 2021 season, Horford was traded back to the Celtics. He reached the NBA Finals in 2022 and 2024, winning his first title in the latter after playing 186 career playoff games without one, the second most all-time.
2. Francisco García (b. 1981)
With an HPI of 29.45, Francisco García is the 2nd most famous Dominican Basketball Player. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages.
Francisco Alberto García Gutiérrez (born December 31, c. 1981) is a Dominican former professional basketball player who played ten seasons in the NBA. The 6'7", 195-pound swingman played college basketball at the University of Louisville before being selected by the Sacramento Kings with the 23rd overall pick of the 2005 NBA draft, where he spent the first seven-plus years of his NBA career. He also played parts of three seasons for the Houston Rockets.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Dominican basketball players born between 1981 and 1986. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Dominican basketball players include Al Horford, and Francisco García. As of April 2024, 1 new Dominican basketball players have been added to Pantheon including Al Horford.
