The Most Famous

TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS from Brazil

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This page contains a list of the greatest Brazilian Table Tennis Players. The pantheon dataset contains 107 Table Tennis Players, 3 of which were born in Brazil. This makes Brazil the birth place of the 10th most number of Table Tennis Players behind North Korea, and France.

Top 3

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

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1. Hugo Calderano (b. 1996)

With an HPI of 47.17, Hugo Calderano is the most famous Brazilian Table Tennis Player.  His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.

Hugo Marinho Borges Calderano (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈuɡu maˈɾĩɲu ˈbɔʁʒis kawdeˈɾɐ̃nu]; born 22 June 1996, in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian professional table tennis player and considered the greatest player from the American continent in the history of the sport. In January 2022, he achieved the highest-ranking for a player from the Americas to date, No. 3 in the world. Hugo won the 2025 World Cup, his biggest accomplishment, where he defeated the three best ranked players at the time; the world No. 3 Tomokazu Harimoto in the quarterfinal, the world No. 2 Wang Chuqin in the semifinal and the world No. 1 Lin Shidong in the final. That same year, he was runner-up at the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships. He has also placed in the top 3 at the ITTF World Tour Grand Finals, the WTT Champions and the Grand Smash, in addition to placing fourth in the Olympic Games, the first table tennis player from the Americas to reach an Olympic semi-final.

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2. Gustavo Tsuboi (b. 1985)

With an HPI of 35.39, Gustavo Tsuboi is the 2nd most famous Brazilian Table Tennis Player.  His biography has been translated into 11 different languages.

Gustavo Tsuboi (born 31 May 1985) is a table tennis player from Brazil, he won three medals in double and team events in the Pan American Games. Along with Hugo Hoyama and Thiago Monteiro, Tsuboi was part of the winning team at the 2007 Pan American Games and 2011 Pan American Games. Tsuboi won the gold medal at the inaugural 2011 Latin American Cup held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil after defeating Paraguay's Marcelo Aguirre 4–0. Tsuboi competed in table tennis at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.

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3. Bruna Takahashi (b. 2000)

With an HPI of 34.41, Bruna Takahashi is the 3rd most famous Brazilian Table Tennis Player.  Her biography has been translated into 11 different languages.

Bruna Yumi Takahashi (born 19 July 2000) is a Brazilian table tennis player. She represented Brazil at the Summer Olympics three times since 2016. She is one of the best Americas players in the ITTF world ranking, after Puerto Rico's Adriana Diaz. Her sister Giulia Takahashi also plays table tennis.

People

Pantheon has 3 people classified as Brazilian table tennis players born between 1985 and 2000. Of these 3, 3 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Brazilian table tennis players include Hugo Calderano, Gustavo Tsuboi, and Bruna Takahashi. As of April 2024, 3 new Brazilian table tennis players have been added to Pantheon including Hugo Calderano, Gustavo Tsuboi, and Bruna Takahashi.

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