The Most Famous
BASKETBALL PLAYERS from Uzbekistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Uzbekistani Basketball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,268 Basketball Players, 1 of which were born in Uzbekistan. This makes Uzbekistan the birth place of the 54th most number of Basketball Players behind South Africa and Republic of the Congo.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Uzbekistani Basketball Players of all time. This list of famous Uzbekistani Basketball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Valeri Tikhonenko (1964 - )
With an HPI of 38.55, Valeri Tikhonenko is the most famous Uzbekistani Basketball Player. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Valeri Tikhonenko (Russian: Валерий Алексеевич Тихоненко; born 19 August 1964) is a retired Soviet and Russian professional basketball player and coach. During his playing career, he played at the small forward and power forward positions, with power forward being his main position. He represented both the Soviet Union and Russia in national team competitions. With the Soviet Union, he won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as basketball players born between 1964 and 1964. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living basketball players include Valeri Tikhonenko.
