The Most Famous
HANDBALL PLAYERS from Réunion
This page contains a list of the greatest Handball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 304 Handball Players, 2 of which were born in Réunion. This makes Réunion the birth place of the 18th most number of Handball Players behind Slovenia and Hungary.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Handball Players of all time. This list of famous Handball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Jackson Richardson (1969 - )
With an HPI of 43.35, Jackson Richardson is the most famous Handball Player. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
Jackson Richardson (born 14 June 1969) is a retired French handball player. Regarded as one of the best and most influential handball players of his era, Richardson won fourteen titles at club level and the World Championship in 1995 and 2001 with the French national team. He was awarded IHF World Player of the Year in 1995, and voted the most valuable player at the World Championships in 1990 and 1995, and the 2000 European Championship. With the national team, Richardson also received one silver medal and three bronze medals at the World Championships in 1993, 1997, 2003 and 2005, and won the bronze medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. He holds the record for most caps for the French national team with 417 appearances. As the captain of the national team, Richardson was France's flag bearer during the 2004 Olympic Games opening ceremony in Athens.
2. Daniel Narcisse (1979 - )
With an HPI of 40.82, Daniel Narcisse is the 2nd most famous Handball Player. His biography has been translated into 28 different languages.
Daniel Narcisse (born 16 December 1979) is a retired French handball player and French international from 2000 to 2017. He is a double Olympic champion, quadruple World champion and triple European champion, one of the most awarded French team handball players with nine international titles. He progresses to the position of half-center or rear left. In 2012, with an exceptional year both in the French team (Olympic title) and in the club (Champions League, German championship and German cup), he was voted best handball player of the year 2012 by the International Handball Federation.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as handball players born between 1969 and 1979. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living handball players include Jackson Richardson and Daniel Narcisse.
