The Most Famous
RUGBY PLAYERS from Kenya
This page contains a list of the greatest Kenyan Rugby Players. The pantheon dataset contains 35 Rugby Players, 1 of which were born in Kenya. This makes Kenya the birth place of the 15th most number of Rugby Players behind Namibia, and Japan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kenyan Rugby Players of all time. This list of famous Kenyan Rugby Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Andrew Amonde (b. 1983)
With an HPI of 17.84, Andrew Amonde is the most famous Kenyan Rugby Player. His biography has been translated into 5 different languages on wikipedia.
Andrew Noel Omondi Amonde (born 25 December 1983) is a Kenyan rugby union player and television producer. He plays for Kenya's national sevens team and has been its captain since 2012. Amonde captained Kenya's Olympic sevens team at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Volleyballer Mercy Moim and Amonde were chosen to be Kenya's flagbearers at the Olympics opening ceremony in Tokyo (Moim was the second woman to be given this honour following archer Shehzana Anwar in 2016).
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Kenyan rugby players born between 1983 and 1983. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Kenyan rugby players include Andrew Amonde. As of April 2024, 1 new Kenyan rugby players have been added to Pantheon including Andrew Amonde.
