List of Famous Basketball Players

Ilimane Diop Gaye is a professional basketball player for Baskonia of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. Although he was born in Senegal, Diop officially represents Spain when being on international duty since he was a baby when his family settled in Spain. Previously, he has led their junior teams to multiple bronze medals.

Darío Brizuela Arrieta is a Spanish professional basketball player for Unicaja of the Liga ACB and the Eurocup. He also represents the Spain national team.

Juan Sebastián "Sebas" Saiz Soto is a Spanish basketball player for Chiba Jets of the B.League. He also holds Dominican citizenship.

Yekaterina Viktorovna Lisina, also known as Ekaterina Lisina, is a Russian model and former basketball player. She currently holds a Guinness World Record for the tallest professional model. Throughout her basketball career, she competed for the Russian National Team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, winning the bronze medal.

Ivan Paunić is a Serbian professional basketball player for Lokomotiv Kuban of the VTB United League and the EuroCup. He also represented the Serbian national basketball team internationally.

Mirsad Türkcan is a Turkish former professional basketball player of [Serbian] origin. Standing at a height of 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m), he played at the power forward position. A three-time All-EuroLeague Team member, he is also the fifth best rebounder in the EuroLeague, since the year 2000, with 1,287 total rebounds.

Walter Herrmann Heinrich is an Argentine professional basketball player. He is listed at 6'9" and 225 lbs. He was a key member of the senior men's Argentine national basketball team that won the gold medal during the 2004 Summer Olympic Games.

Bria Nicole Hartley is an American-born French professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She was drafted seventh overall by the Seattle Storm in the 2014 WNBA draft and was immediately traded to the Washington Mystics. Hartley played point guard for the UConn women's basketball team, and won back to back national championships in 2013 and 2014.

Marta Fernández Farrés is a retired Spanish women's basketball player. A 1.80 m (5'11") guard, she won three bronze medals with the Spain women's national basketball team. At club level, she played in 2007 with the Los Angeles Sparks of the United States' WNBA., the Polish team Wisła Can-Pack Kraków and the Spanish teams Universitari Barcelona, Ros Casares Valencia and Perfumerías Avenida, where she retired in 2015. Marta Fernández is the sister of Spanish international and Real Madrid shooting guard Rudy Fernández.

Sitapha Alfred Savané Sagna is a Senegalese retired professional basketball player. He was a member of the Senegal national basketball team. He played his entire professional career in Spain, most of it in the ACB League.