The Most Famous
SWIMMERS from Philippines
This page contains a list of the greatest Filipino Swimmers. The pantheon dataset contains 392 Swimmers, 1 of which were born in Philippines. This makes Philippines the birth place of the 40th most number of Swimmers behind Zimbabwe and Slovakia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Filipino Swimmers of all time. This list of famous Filipino Swimmers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Teófilo Yldefonso (1903 - 1942)
With an HPI of 32.18, Teófilo Yldefonso is the most famous Filipino Swimmer. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Teófilo E. Yldefonso (born Teófilo Yldefonso y de la Cruz; November 5, 1903 – June 19, 1942) was a Filipino breaststroke swimmer. He was the first Filipino and Southeast Asian to win an Olympic medal, and the first Filipino to win multiple medals.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as swimmers born between 1903 and 1903. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased swimmers include Teófilo Yldefonso. As of April 2022, 1 new swimmers have been added to Pantheon including Teófilo Yldefonso.
