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The Most Famous

SNOOKERS from India

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This page contains a list of the greatest Indian Snookers. The pantheon dataset contains 56 Snookers, 1 of which were born in India. This makes India the birth place of the 10th most number of Snookers behind Belgium and Malta.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Indian Snookers of all time. This list of famous Indian Snookers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Pankaj Advani (1985 - )

With an HPI of 19.52, Pankaj Advani is the most famous Indian Snooker.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.

Pankaj Arjan Advani (born 24 July 1985) is an Indian billiards and professional snooker player. He is a 27-time International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF) world champion. He has won 18 billiards world titles, the IBSF World Billiards Championship on 17 occasions and the World Team Billiards Championship once. In snooker, he won the IBSF World Snooker Championship three times, IBSF World six-red championship twice and the IBSF World Team Cup and IBSF World Team Championship one time each. He has the record number of IBSF world championships. He became a snooker professional in 2012/2013. In recognition of his achievements, the Government of India has bestowed several awards upon Advani: the Arjuna Award in 2004, Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna in 2006, Padma Shri in 2009 and Padma Bhushan in 2018.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as snookers born between 1985 and 1985. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living snookers include Pankaj Advani.

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