The Most Famous

BASKETBALL PLAYERS from Kyrgyzstan

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This page contains a list of the greatest Kirghiz Basketball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,757 Basketball Players, 1 of which were born in Kyrgyzstan. This makes Kyrgyzstan the birth place of the 66th most number of Basketball Players behind Philippines, and Martinique.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kirghiz Basketball Players of all time. This list of famous Kirghiz Basketball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Elena Baranova (b. 1972)

With an HPI of 32.12, Elena Baranova is the most famous Kirghiz Basketball Player.  Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.

Elena Viktorovna Baranova (Russian: Елена Викторовна Баранова; born 28 January 1972) is a Russian former professional basketball player. She is a former Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) player, where she became the first player from Europe in 1997 WNBA inaugural season, the first All-Star from Russia in 2001 and played for the New York Liberty until the 2005 season.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Kirghiz basketball players born between 1972 and 1972. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Kirghiz basketball players include Elena Baranova.

Living Kirghiz Basketball Players

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