The Most Famous
VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS from Hungary
This page contains a list of the greatest Hungarian Volleyball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 199 Volleyball Players, 1 of which were born in Hungary. This makes Hungary the birth place of the 23rd most number of Volleyball Players behind South Korea, and Uzbekistan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Hungarian Volleyball Players of all time. This list of famous Hungarian Volleyball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. György Grozer (b. 1984)
With an HPI of 40.72, György Grozer is the most famous Hungarian Volleyball Player. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
György Grozer (born 27 November 1984), also known as Georg Grozer, is a German professional volleyball player of Hungarian origin who plays as an opposite spiker for Arkas İzmir and the Germany national team.
2. Viktoria Orsi Toth (b. 1990)
With an HPI of 0.00, Viktoria Orsi Toth is the 2nd most famous Hungarian Volleyball Player. Her biography has been translated into different languages.
Viktoria Orsi Toth (born 14 August 1990) is an Italian beach volleyball player who plays as a right-side blocker. With partner Marta Menegatti, she achieved a career-high world ranking of No. 7 in June 2016. Her career highlights include two gold, three silver and two bronze medals on the FIVB World Tour. Born in Hungary, her family moved to Italy when Orsi Toth was five. She began her sporting career playing indoor volleyball for various clubs, including two seasons in the Serie A1. As a member of the Italy women's national under-20 team, she won the 2008 Junior European Volleyball Championship. Orsi Toth competed in her first international beach volleyball event in 2010 and quit indoor volleyball the following year to focus solely on the beach game. Orsi Toth debuted on the World Tour in 2011. For the next two and a half seasons, she was mostly partnered with Laura Giombini and struggled to qualify for main draws. Her breakthrough came mid-2013 when she teamed up with Menegatti. The pair medalled on the World Tour five times over the next three years, including their first World Tour title in 2015. They qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics but Orsi Toth was suspended right before the tournament for a doping violation, for which she has maintained her innocence. After serving a two-year ban, she returned to international competition in July 2018, resuming her partnership with Menegatti.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Hungarian volleyball players born between 1984 and 1990. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Hungarian volleyball players include György Grozer, and Viktoria Orsi Toth. As of April 2024, 1 new Hungarian volleyball players have been added to Pantheon including Viktoria Orsi Toth.
