The Most Famous
BASKETBALL PLAYERS from Philippines
This page contains a list of the greatest Filipino Basketball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,268 Basketball Players, 1 of which were born in Philippines. This makes Philippines the birth place of the 64th most number of Basketball Players behind Central African Republic and Portugal.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Filipino Basketball Players of all time. This list of famous Filipino Basketball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Carlos Loyzaga (1930 - 2016)
With an HPI of 31.56, Carlos Loyzaga is the most famous Filipino Basketball Player. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Carlos "Caloy" Loyzaga y Matute (August 29, 1930 – January 27, 2016) was a Filipino basketball player, coach and politician. He was the most dominant basketball player of his era in the Philippines and is considered as the greatest Filipino basketball player of all time. Loyzaga was a two-time Olympian (1952, 1956), as a member of the Philippine national team. On June 2, 2023, he became the first Filipino player to be inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame, which was done in the lead up to the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup, which the Philippines co-hosts.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as basketball players born between 1930 and 1930. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased basketball players include Carlos Loyzaga.
