The Most Famous
HOCKEY PLAYERS from South Africa
This page contains a list of the greatest South African Hockey Players. The pantheon dataset contains 364 Hockey Players, 1 of which were born in South Africa. This makes South Africa the birth place of the 24th most number of Hockey Players behind Indonesia and Estonia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary South African Hockey Players of all time. This list of famous South African Hockey Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Olaf Kölzig (1970 - )
With an HPI of 33.87, Olaf Kölzig is the most famous South African Hockey Player. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Olaf Kölzig (born 6 April 1970) is a South African-born German former professional ice hockey goaltender and current goaltender coach and player development coach for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL). With the exception of eight games with the Tampa Bay Lightning, he played his entire 14-year NHL career with the Capitals. Nicknamed "Olie the Goalie," Kölzig was born in South Africa to German parents and grew up in several cities across Canada. His family moved to Union Bay, British Columbia, when he was a teenager. Kölzig never applied for Canadian citizenship, which allowed him to represent Germany internationally. Kölzig ranks among the NHL's top 30 in career saves (15th with 18,233), wins (28th with 303), games (23rd with 719), and minutes (23rd with 41,671).
Pantheon has 1 people classified as hockey players born between 1970 and 1970. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living hockey players include Olaf Kölzig.
