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Abdul Hamid

1927 - 2019

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Abdul Hamid Hamidi (7 January 1927 – 11 July 2019) was a field hockey player from Pakistan. He was born in Bannu. He scored 48 International goals in just 55 appearances for Pakistan. He won silver medal at 1956 Summer Olympics and was captain of the gold medal-winning national team at 1960 Summer Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abdul Hamid is the 2,114th most popular athlete (up from 2,479th in 2019), the 120th most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 133rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Pakistani Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Abdul Hamid ranks 2,114 out of 6,025Before him are Isabelle Daniels, Svetlana Krachevskaya, Kaisa Mäkäräinen, Norvel Lee, Mervyn Wood, and Fița Lovin. After him are Hans Wetterström, Meredith Colket, Dorothy Shirley, Shinji Hosokawa, Zdravko Hebel, and Nobutaka Taguchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Abdul Hamid ranks 440Before him are Giorgio Capitani, Kirti Nidhi Bista, Anjali Devi, Jacques Bergerac, Tatyana Zaslavskaya, and Richard Long. After him are Dick Jones, John Seigenthaler, Krishan Kant, Stein Eriksen, Mose Allison, and Sahana Pradhan. Among people deceased in 2019, Abdul Hamid ranks 516Before him are Muriel Pavlow, Vasil Metodiev, Héctor Santos, John McEnery, Atli Eðvaldsson, and Eddie Money. After him are Andre Matos, Alexander Volkov, Jerry Herman, W. Morgan Sheppard, Chuck Peddle, and Peter McNamara.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Abdul Hamid ranks 120 out of 217Before him are Iqbal Masih (1983), Noor Jehan (1926), Mirza Masroor Ahmad (1950), Prem Chopra (1935), Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi (1931), and Sadhana Shivdasani (1941). After him are Asma Barlas (1950), Fawad Khan (1981), Khusrau Mirza (1587), Rab Butler (1902), Surinder Kaur (1929), and Kamini Kaushal (1927).

Among ATHLETES In Pakistan

Among athletes born in Pakistan, Abdul Hamid ranks 2Before him are Milkha Singh (1935). After him are Noor Alam (1929), Robbie Brightwell (1939), Prithipal Singh (1932), Arshad Nadeem (1997), Najma Parveen (1990), Muhammad Khalil Akhtar (1984), and Talha Talib (1999).