The Most Famous
BASKETBALL PLAYERS from Taiwan
This page contains a list of the greatest Taiwanese Basketball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,757 Basketball Players, 1 of which were born in Taiwan. This makes Taiwan the birth place of the 74th most number of Basketball Players behind Dominican Republic, and Haiti.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Taiwanese Basketball Players of all time. This list of famous Taiwanese Basketball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Joe Alexander (b. 1986)
With an HPI of 27.32, Joe Alexander is the most famous Taiwanese Basketball Player. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Joseph Anthony Alexander (ג'ו אלכסנדר; born December 26, 1986) is a Taiwan-born American-Israeli professional basketball player who last played for Hapoel Jerusalem of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. Alexander, who at 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) plays both forward positions, was selected for the 2007 All-Big East squad during his collegiate career with West Virginia and was an All-American Honorable Mention. He was selected eighth overall in the 2008 NBA draft by the Milwaukee Bucks. He is the first-ever Taiwanese-born NBA player.
2. Jin An (b. 1996)
With an HPI of 0.00, Jin An is the 2nd most famous Taiwanese Basketball Player. Her biography has been translated into different languages.
Jin An (born 23 March 1996) is a Taiwanese-South Korean basketball player. She is part of the South Korean team in the women's tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Taiwanese basketball players born between 1986 and 1996. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Taiwanese basketball players include Joe Alexander, and Jin An. As of April 2024, 1 new Taiwanese basketball players have been added to Pantheon including Jin An.
