The Most Famous
ATHLETES from Bangladesh
This page contains a list of the greatest Bangladeshi Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 6,025 Athletes, 3 of which were born in Bangladesh. This makes Bangladesh the birth place of the 146th most number of Athletes behind Sierra Leone, and U.S. Virgin Islands.
Top 4
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bangladeshi Athletes of all time. This list of famous Bangladeshi Athletes is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Shamoli Ray (b. 1994)
With an HPI of 26.30, Shamoli Ray is the most famous Bangladeshi Athlete. Her biography has been translated into 14 different languages on wikipedia.
Shamoli Ray (born 5 April 1994) is a Bangladeshi competitive archer. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she competed as a lone archer for the Bangladeshi team in the women's individual recurve through a tripartite invitation. There, Ray discharged a score of 600 points, 7 perfect tens, and 4 bull's eyes to take the fiftieth spot in the classification stage, before she challenged her opening round bout against the twelfth-seeded Mexican archer Gabriela Bayardo, which abruptly ended her Olympic debut in a severe 0–6 defeat.
2. Ruman Shana (b. 1995)
With an HPI of 25.50, Ruman Shana is the 2nd most famous Bangladeshi Athlete. His biography has been translated into 13 different languages.
Mohammad Ruman Shana (Bengali: রোমান সানা; born 8 June 1995) is a Bangladeshi archer. He won the bronze medal in recurve single's event of 2019 World Archery Championships and became the first Bangladeshi archer in history to win a medal in the competition. Shana won gold medal at the 2019 Asia Cup in the Philippines.
3. Abdullah Hel Baki (b. 1989)
With an HPI of 21.17, Abdullah Hel Baki is the 3rd most famous Bangladeshi Athlete. His biography has been translated into 7 different languages.
Abdullah Hel Baki (born 1 August 1989) is a Bangladeshi sports shooter. He is a two-time Olympian who represented Bangladesh at the 2016 Rio Olympics and 2020 Tokyo Olympics, finishing 25th and 41st respectively in the men's 10 m air rifle event. He has won medals at the Islamic Solidarity Games, South Asian Games, and the Commonwealth Games, and was the flag bearer for Bangladesh at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
4. Diya Siddique (b. 2004)
With an HPI of 20.92, Diya Siddique is the 4th most famous Bangladeshi Athlete. Her biography has been translated into 11 different languages.
Diya Siddique (born 19 February 2004) is a Bangladeshi archer. On 23 May 2021, she along with Ruman Shana claimed silver medal in the recurve mixed team event during the 2021 Archery World Cup where Bangladesh emerged as runners-up to Netherlands in the final. Despite losing the final 5–1, it was the best performance by Bangladesh at an Archery World Championship. It also marked the first instance whereas Bangladesh managed to reach final in an event of Archery World Cup.
People
Pantheon has 4 people classified as Bangladeshi athletes born between 1989 and 2004. Of these 4, 4 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Bangladeshi athletes include Shamoli Ray, Ruman Shana, and Abdullah Hel Baki. As of April 2024, 1 new Bangladeshi athletes have been added to Pantheon including Shamoli Ray.
Living Bangladeshi Athletes
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Shamoli Ray
1994 - Present
HPI: 26.30
Ruman Shana
1995 - Present
HPI: 25.50
Abdullah Hel Baki
1989 - Present
HPI: 21.17
Diya Siddique
2004 - Present
HPI: 20.92
