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Noor Alam

1929 - 2003

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Noor Alam (5 December 1929 – 30 June 2003) was a field hockey player from Pakistan. He won gold medal in 1960 Summer Olympics and a silver medal, the country's first Olympic medal, at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He was also a member of winning Pakistani team of 1958 and 1962 Asian Games. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Noor Alam is the 2,753rd most popular athlete (up from 3,571st in 2019), the 146th most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 163rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Pakistani Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Noor Alam ranks 2,753 out of 6,025. Before him are Jens Müller, Anier García, Oksana Yermakova, Birgit Peter, Trischa Zorn, and Giuseppe Abbagnale. After him are Phil Brown, Egil Gjelland, Song Dae-nam, Silke Renk, Martina Jäschke, and Giorgio Pellini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Noor Alam ranks 544. Before him are John Conyers, Ian Stewart, George Clayton Johnson, King Moody, Ronnie Barker, and Sylvia Cheeseman. After him are Jacqueline Hill, Jack Kelsey, William Safire, Al Alvarez, Joan Taylor, and Sartaj Aziz. Among people deceased in 2003, Noor Alam ranks 367. Before him are Hank Ballard, Ellen Drew, Lynne Thigpen, David Kelly, Malcolm Williamson, and Johnny Paul Koroma. After him are Babatunde Olatunji, Sita Ram Goel, Philip Slone, Adam Faith, José María Jiménez, and Johnny Boyd.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Noor Alam ranks 146 out of 217. Before him are A. K. Hangal (1915), Ramanand Sagar (1917), Yasmeen Lari (1941), Keshav Dutt (1925), Aafia Siddiqui (1972), and Kuldip Nayar (1923). After him are Ramesh Sippy (1947), Shamshad Begum (1919), Kulbhushan Kharbanda (1944), Suresh Oberoi (1946), Sartaj Aziz (1929), and Meera (1977).

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Among ATHLETES In Pakistan

Among athletes born in Pakistan, Noor Alam ranks 3. Before him are Milkha Singh (1935), and Abdul Hamid (1927). After him are Robbie Brightwell (1939), Prithipal Singh (1932), Arshad Nadeem (1997), Najma Parveen (1990), Muhammad Khalil Akhtar (1984), and Talha Talib (1999).

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