The Most Famous
HANDBALL PLAYERS from North Macedonia
This page contains a list of the greatest Macedonian Handball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 420 Handball Players, 2 of which were born in North Macedonia. This makes North Macedonia the birth place of the 20th most number of Handball Players behind Réunion, and Kyrgyzstan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Macedonian Handball Players of all time. This list of famous Macedonian Handball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Veselin Vuković (b. 1958)
With an HPI of 43.27, Veselin Vuković is the most famous Macedonian Handball Player. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Veselin Vuković (Serbian Cyrillic: Веселин Вуковић; born 19 December 1958) is a Serbian handball coach and former player who competed for Yugoslavia in the 1984 Summer Olympics.
2. Kiril Lazarov (b. 1980)
With an HPI of 42.34, Kiril Lazarov is the 2nd most famous Macedonian Handball Player. His biography has been translated into 27 different languages.
Kiril Lazarov (Macedonian: Кирил Лазаров, born 10 May 1980) is a retired Macedonian professional handball player and current coach of the North Macedonia national handball team and RK Alkaloid, widely regarded as one of the greatest handball players of all time. Lazarov holds the record for most goals scored in a single World Men's Handball Championship (92). He is also the all-time top scorer in the EHF Champions League and the only player to have scored more than 1,300 goals. He is third on the all-time list of players by number of international goals scored and has the highest ratio of goals scored per match.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Macedonian handball players born between 1958 and 1980. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Macedonian handball players include Veselin Vuković, and Kiril Lazarov.
