The Most Famous
SKIERS from United Kingdom
This page contains a list of the greatest British Skiers. The pantheon dataset contains 541 Skiers, 2 of which were born in United Kingdom. This makes United Kingdom the birth place of the 24th most number of Skiers behind Belarus and Australia.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary British Skiers of all time. This list of famous British Skiers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Eddie the Eagle (1963 - )
With an HPI of 57.86, Eddie the Eagle is the most famous British Skier. His biography has been translated into 25 different languages on wikipedia.
Michael David Edwards (born 5 December 1963), better known as Eddie the Eagle, is an English ski jumper and Olympian who in 1988 became the first competitor to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping, finishing last in the Normal Hill and Large Hill events. He held the British ski jumping record from 1988 to 2001. He also took part in amateur speed skiing, running at 106.8 km/h (66.4 mph), and became a stunt jumping world record holder for jumping over 6 buses. In 2016, he was portrayed by Taron Egerton and Tom and Jack Costello in the biographical film Eddie the Eagle.
2. Gus Kenworthy (1991 - )
With an HPI of 29.31, Gus Kenworthy is the 2nd most famous British Skier. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages.
Augustus Richard Kenworthy (born October 1, 1991) is a British-American former freestyle skier, actor, and YouTuber. He has competed in slopestyle, halfpipe, and big air. Kenworthy won the silver medal in men's slopestyle at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. As of 2019 Kenworthy represents Great Britain. He was cast as Chet Clancy in the ninth season of the horror anthology series American Horror Story: 1984.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as skiers born between 1963 and 1991. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living skiers include Eddie the Eagle and Gus Kenworthy.
