The Most Famous
TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS from Hungary
This page contains a list of the greatest Hungarian Table Tennis Players. The pantheon dataset contains 79 Table Tennis Players, 5 of which were born in Hungary. This makes Hungary the birth place of the 6th most number of Table Tennis Players behind Sweden and Germany.
Top 5
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Hungarian Table Tennis Players of all time. This list of famous Hungarian Table Tennis Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Mária Mednyánszky (1901 - 1978)
With an HPI of 49.32, Mária Mednyánszky is the most famous Hungarian Table Tennis Player. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Mária Mednyánszky (7 April 1901 Budapest – 22 December 1978 also Budapest) was a Hungarian international table tennis star.
2. Miklós Szabados (1912 - 1962)
With an HPI of 47.56, Miklós Szabados is the 2nd most famous Hungarian Table Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.
Miklós Szabados (7 March 1912 – 12 February 1962) was a Hungarian and Australian table tennis champion.
3. Agnes Simon (1935 - 2020)
With an HPI of 46.08, Agnes Simon is the 3rd most famous Hungarian Table Tennis Player. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Agnes Simon (née Almási; 21 June 1935 – 19 August 2020) was an international table tennis player from Hungary.
4. Krisztina Tóth (1974 - )
With an HPI of 31.98, Krisztina Tóth is the 4th most famous Hungarian Table Tennis Player. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Krisztina Tóth (born 29 May 1974 in Miskolc, Hungary) is a Hungarian table tennis player from Gödöllő (Hungary), who currently resides in Augsburg, Germany. She has won several medals in single, doubles, and team events in the Table Tennis European Championships, the Table Tennis World Cup, and the World Table Tennis Championships.
5. Csilla Bátorfi (1969 - )
With an HPI of 31.75, Csilla Bátorfi is the 5th most famous Hungarian Table Tennis Player. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Csilla Bátorfi (born 3 March 1969 in Szombathely) is a Hungarian table tennis player. She competed at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1988 (when the sport first appeared at the Games) to 2004. She won several titles in European Championships. She is the first female table tennis player to compete at five Olympics. Six men share this honor with her: Swede Jörgen Persson, Croatian Zoran Primorac, Belgian Jean-Michel Saive, Serbian-American Ilija Lupulesku, Swede Jan-Ove Waldner, and German Jörg Roßkopf. She was named Hungarian Sportswoman of The Year in 1986 after becoming European champion the same year.
Pantheon has 5 people classified as table tennis players born between 1901 and 1974. Of these 5, 2 (40.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living table tennis players include Krisztina Tóth and Csilla Bátorfi. The most famous deceased table tennis players include Mária Mednyánszky, Miklós Szabados, and Agnes Simon.
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Mária Mednyánszky
1901 - 1978
HPI: 49.32
Miklós Szabados
1912 - 1962
HPI: 47.56
Agnes Simon
1935 - 2020
HPI: 46.08
Which Table Tennis Players were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 3 most globally memorable Table Tennis Players since 1700.
