The Most Famous
BASKETBALL PLAYERS from India
This page contains a list of the greatest Indian Basketball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,757 Basketball Players, 1 of which were born in India. This makes India the birth place of the 77th most number of Basketball Players behind Benin, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Indian Basketball Players of all time. This list of famous Indian Basketball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Satnam Singh (b. 1995)
With an HPI of 20.43, Satnam Singh is the most famous Indian Basketball Player. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
Satnam Singh Bhamara (Punjabi: ਸਤਨਾਮ ਸਿੰਘ ਭੰਮਰਾ; born 10 December 1995) is an Indian professional wrestler and former professional basketball player. As a wrestler, he has been signed to the American professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) since 2021. He also makes appearances for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), where he is one-half of the current AAA World Tag Team Champions (with Raj Dhesi) in their first reign. He became the first Indian player to be drafted into the National Basketball Association (NBA) when the Dallas Mavericks selected him with the 52nd overall pick of the 2015 NBA draft. At 7 ft 4 in (2.24 m) and 400 pounds (180 kg), Singh played the center position. He played high school basketball at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Indian basketball players born between 1995 and 1995. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Indian basketball players include Satnam Singh.
