The Most Famous
HOCKEY PLAYERS from Pakistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Pakistani Hockey Players. The pantheon dataset contains 364 Hockey Players, 2 of which were born in Pakistan. This makes Pakistan the birth place of the 17th most number of Hockey Players behind Austria and Kazakhstan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Pakistani Hockey Players of all time. This list of famous Pakistani Hockey Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Keshav Dutt (1925 - 2021)
With an HPI of 38.29, Keshav Dutt is the most famous Pakistani Hockey Player. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Keshav Chandra Dutt, also spelt as Keshav Datt (29 December 1925 – 7 July 2021), was an Indian field hockey player and played as a halfback. He was a part of the team that won gold medals at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics. He made 22 international appearances for India and scored two goals in his career. Keshav was the last surviving member of the Indian hockey team which participated at the 1948 London Olympic Games. He was regarded as one of the finest Indian hockey centre half-backs.
2. Lal Bokhari (1909 - 1959)
With an HPI of 28.52, Lal Bokhari is the 2nd most famous Pakistani Hockey Player. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Lal Shah Bokhari (Urdu: لال شاہ بخاری;13 January 1906 – 22 July 1959) was a British India field hockey player. He was captain of the 15-member British Indian field hockey team in the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as hockey players born between 1909 and 1925. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased hockey players include Keshav Dutt and Lal Bokhari. As of April 2022, 2 new hockey players have been added to Pantheon including Keshav Dutt and Lal Bokhari.
