The Most Famous
BASKETBALL PLAYERS from Kazakhstan
This page contains a list of the greatest Kazakhstani Basketball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,757 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 3
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 48.59, Alzhan Zharmukhamedov is the most famous Kazakhstani Basketball Player. His biography has been translated into 20 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 (b. 1976)
With an HPI of 30.61, Oxana Rakhmatulina is the 2nd most famous Kazakhstani Basketball Player. Her biography has been translated into 17 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.
3. Katsiaryna Snytsina (b. 1985)
With an HPI of 24.82, Katsiaryna Snytsina is the 3rd most famous Kazakhstani Basketball Player. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Katsiaryna Andrejeŭna Snytsina (Belarusian: Кацярына Андрэеўна Сныціна; Russian: Екатерина Андреевна Снытина; born 2 September 1985) is a Kazakhstani-born Belarusian basketball player. She is 6ft 2in tall. She was part of the Belarusian teams that won a bronze medal at the 2007 European Championships and placed sixth at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Snytsina fled Belarus in 2020 and currently lives in exile as a dissident of the Alexander Lukashenko regime. In 2024, she starred as herself in the Belarus Free Theatre production KS6: Small Forward, which covers her life story.
People
Pantheon has 3 people classified as Kazakhstani basketball players born between 1944 and 1985. Of these 3, 2 (66.67%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Kazakhstani basketball players include Oxana Rakhmatulina, and Katsiaryna Snytsina. The most famous deceased Kazakhstani basketball players include Alzhan Zharmukhamedov. As of April 2024, 1 new Kazakhstani basketball players have been added to Pantheon including Katsiaryna Snytsina.
