The Most Famous
BASKETBALL PLAYERS from Kazakhstan
This page contains a list of the greatest Kazakhstani Basketball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,268 Basketball Players, 2 of which were born in Kazakhstan. This makes Kazakhstan the birth place of the 47th most number of Basketball Players behind Netherlands and Japan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kazakhstani Basketball Players of all time. This list of famous Kazakhstani Basketball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Alzhan Zharmukhamedov (1944 - 2022)
With an HPI of 45.44, Alzhan Zharmukhamedov is the most famous Kazakhstani Basketball Player. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Alzhan Musurbekuly Zharmukhamedov (alternate spelling: Alzan Zarmuhamedov) (Kazakh: Әлжан Мүсірбекұлы Жармұхамедов, Áljan Músirbekuly Jarmuhamedov; Russian: Алжан Мусурбекович Жармухамедов; 2 October 1944 – 3 December 2022) was a Kazakh professional basketball player and coach. He was considered to be the first ethnic Kazakh to become an Olympic champion.
2. Oxana Rakhmatulina (1976 - )
With an HPI of 24.30, Oxana Rakhmatulina is the 2nd most famous Kazakhstani Basketball Player. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Oxana Yevgeniyevna Rakhmatulina (Russian: Оксана Евгеньевна Рахматулина) (born December 7, 1976, in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR) is a Russian-Kazakhstani basketball guard, who competed for the Russian National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics, winning the bronze medal.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as basketball players born between 1944 and 1976. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living basketball players include Oxana Rakhmatulina. The most famous deceased basketball players include Alzhan Zharmukhamedov. As of April 2022, 2 new basketball players have been added to Pantheon including Alzhan Zharmukhamedov and Oxana Rakhmatulina.
