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With 78 biographies, Table Tennis Players are the 67th most common occupation in Pantheon, behind Producers, Designers, and Badminton Players.

Pantheon has 79 people classified as table tennis players born between 1893 and 2000. Of these 79, 72 (91.14%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living table tennis players include Jan-Ove Waldner, Agnes Simon, and Jörgen Persson. The most famous deceased table tennis players include Angelica Rozeanu, Mária Mednyánszky, and Roland Jacobi. As of October 2020, 30 new table tennis players have been added to Pantheon including Mária Mednyánszky, Agnes Simon, and Roland Jacobi.

Living Table Tennis Players

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Deceased Table Tennis Players

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Newly Added Table Tennis Players (2020)

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Most table tennis players were born in China (26), South Korea (10), and Sweden (7). By city, the most common birth places were Anshan (4), Budapest (3), and Stockholm (2).The most common death places of table tennis players were Hungary (2), Israel (1), and Germany (1). By city, these were Budapest (2), Haifa (1), and Moers (1).

The earliest biographies classified as table tennis players in Pantheon are Miklós Szabados, Mária Mednyánszky, and Roland Jacobi.  The concentration of table tennis players was largest during the Television Era, which lasted from 1950 to 1989. Some birth or death locations for earlier table tennis players are unknown, which may account for timeline differences below.

Which Table Tennis Players were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 7 most globally memorable Table Tennis Players since 1700.

Table Tennis Players are found within the Sports domain which also includes Soccer Players, Athletes, Basketball Players, Cyclists, and Tennis Players.