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Dražen Dalipagić

1951 - 2025

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Dražen "Praja" Dalipagić (Serbian Cyrillic: Дражен "Праја" Далипагић; 27 November 1951 – 25 January 2025) was a Serbian professional basketball player and head coach. He was selected the best athlete of Yugoslavia in the year 1978, and is one of the most decorated athletes in Yugoslavian history. He was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991. Dalipagić was enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in 2004, and into the FIBA Hall of Fame, also as a player, in 2007. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dražen Dalipagić is the 6th most popular basketball player (up from 23rd in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina (up from 61st in 2019) and the most popular Bosnian, Herzegovinian Basketball Player.

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Dražen Dalipagić ranks 6 out of 1,757. Before him are Shaquille O'Neal, Michael Jordan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Scottie Pippen, and Wilt Chamberlain. After him are Stephen Curry, Sam Jones, Bill Russell, Dikembe Mutombo, David Robinson, and Magic Johnson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Dražen Dalipagić ranks 34. Before him are Paul Breitner, Juan Manuel Santos, Win Myint, Jill Biden, Aslan Maskhadov, and Traian Băsescu. After him are François Bayrou, Jane Seymour, Hilda Heine, Mark Hamill, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, and Thomas Boni Yayi. Among people deceased in 2025, Dražen Dalipagić ranks 25. Before him are George E. Smith, George Foreman, Sofia Gubaidulina, Fouad Mebazaa, Frederick Forsyth, and Richard Williamson. After him are Theodore Edgar McCarrick, Geneviève Page, Roberta Flack, Robert Benton, Denis Law, and Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dražen Dalipagić ranks 17 out of 375. Before him are Zoran Đinđić (1952), Tvrtko I of Bosnia (1338), Vinko Puljić (1945), Slobodan Praljak (1945), Lala Mustafa Pasha (1500), and Biljana Plavšić (1930). After him are Milorad Dodik (1959), Ivica Osim (1941), Boris Tadić (1958), Nedeljko Čabrinović (1895), Vahid Halilhodžić (1952), and Miroslav Blažević (1935).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among basketball players born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dražen Dalipagić ranks 1. After him are Mirza Delibašić (1954), Predrag Danilović (1970), Borislav Stanković (1925), Ratko Radovanović (1956), Zoran Savić (1966), Sabit Hadžić (1957), Emir Mutapčić (1960), Razija Mujanović (1967), Franjo Arapović (1965), Bojan Bogdanović (1989), and Damir Mulaomerović (1974).

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