Browse Namesakes
This is a list of namesakes in which the category is Notable Athletes; and the gender is male; and the keywords are basketball
| Name | Gender | Lifespan | Sport | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Lapchick | m | 1900-1970 | basketball | (Joseph) |  |
| John Wooden | m | 1910-2010 | basketball | | |
| Al Cervi | m | 1917-2009 | basketball | (Alfred) | |
| Buddy Jeannette | m | 1917-1998 | basketball | (Harry, Edward) | |
| Bob Davies | m | 1920-1990 | basketball | (Robert) | |
| Chuck Connors | m | 1921-1992 | basketball | (Kevin, Joseph, Aloysius) | |
| Bobby Wanzer | m | 1921-2016 | basketball | (Robert) | |
| Joe Fulks | m | 1921-1976 | basketball | (Joseph) | |
| Frido Frey | m | 1921-2000 | basketball | | |
| Andy Phillip | m | 1922-2001 | basketball | (Andrew) | |
| Jim Pollard | m | 1922-1993 | basketball | (James) | |
| Wataru Misaka | m | 1923-2019 | basketball | | |
| George Mikan | m | 1924-2005 | basketball | | |
| Faidon Mattheou | m | 1924-2011 | basketball | (Fedon) | |
| Arnie Risen | m | 1924-2012 | basketball | (Arnold) | |
| Aleksandar Nikolić | m | 1924-2000 | basketball | (Aca) | |
| Bob Kurland | m | 1924-2013 | basketball | (Robert, Albert) | |
| Slater Martin | m | 1925-2012 | basketball | | |
| Dick McGuire | m | 1926-2010 | basketball | (Richard) | |
| Bill Sharman | m | 1926-2013 | basketball | (William) | |
| Chuck Cooper | m | 1926-1984 | basketball | (Charles, Henry) | |
| Marques Haynes | m | 1926-2015 | basketball | | |
| Harry Gallatin | m | 1927-2015 | basketball | | |
| Carl Braun | m | 1927-2010 | basketball | | |
| Ed Macauley | m | 1928-2011 | basketball | (Edward) | |
| Earl Lloyd | m | 1928-2015 | basketball | | |
| Paul Arizin | m | 1928-2006 | basketball | | |
| Dolph Schayes | m | 1928-2015 | basketball | (Adolph) | |
| Bob Cousy | m | 1928- | basketball | (Robert) | |
| Vern Mikkelsen | m | 1928-2013 | basketball | (Arild, Verner) | |
| George Yardley | m | 1928-2004 | basketball | | |
| Neil Johnston | m | 1929-1978 | basketball | (Donald) | |
| Clyde Lovellette | m | 1929-2016 | basketball | (Edward) | |
| Frank Ramsey | m | 1931-2018 | basketball | | |
| Cliff Hagan | m | 1931- | basketball | (Clifford) | |
| Bob Houbregs | m | 1932-2014 | basketball | (Robert) | |
| Meadowlark Lemon | m | 1932-2015 | basketball | | |
| K. C. Jones | m | 1932-2020 | basketball | (K, C) | |
| Richie Guerin | m | 1932- | basketball | (Richard) | |
| Bob Pettit | m | 1932- | basketball | (Robert) | |
| Tom Gola | m | 1933-2014 | basketball | (Thomas) | |
| Maurice Stokes | m | 1933-1970 | basketball | | |
| Sam Jones | m | 1933-2021 | basketball | (Samuel) | |
| Bill Russell | m | 1934-2022 | basketball | (William, Felton) | |
| Jack Twyman | m | 1934-2012 | basketball | (John) | |
| Tom Heinsohn | m | 1934-2020 | basketball | (Thomas) | |
| Elgin Baylor | m | 1934-2021 | basketball | | |
| Guy Rodgers | m | 1935-2001 | basketball | | |
| Hal Greer | m | 1936-2018 | basketball | (Harold, Everett) | |
| Wilt "the Stilt" Chamberlain | m | 1936-1999 | basketball | (Wilton, Norman) | |
| Bailey Howell | m | 1937- | basketball | | |
| Emiliano Rodríguez | m | 1937- | basketball | | |
| Lenny Wilkens | m | 1937- | basketball | (Leonard) | |
| Jerry West | m | 1938- | basketball | (Jerome, Alan) | |
| Radivoj Korać | m | 1938-1969 | basketball | | |
| Tom "Satch" Sanders | m | 1938- | basketball | (Thomas) | |
| Oscar Robertson | m | 1938- | basketball | (Palmer) | |
| Gus Johnson | m | 1938-1987 | basketball | | |
| Walt Bellamy | m | 1939-2013 | basketball | (Walter, Jones) | |
| Zelmo Beaty | m | 1939-2013 | basketball | | |
| Chet Walker | m | 1940- | basketball | (Chester) | |
| Jerry Lucas | m | 1940- | basketball | (Ray) | |
| John Havlicek | m | 1940-2019 | basketball | | |
| Francisco Buscató | m | 1940- | basketball | (Nino) | |
| Lolo Sainz | m | 1940- | basketball | (Manuel) | |
| Dave DeBusschere | m | 1940-2003 | basketball | (David) | |
| Clifford Luyk | m | 1941- | basketball | | |
| Nate Thurmond | m | 1941-2016 | basketball | (Nathaniel) | |
| Roger Brown | m | 1942-1997 | basketball | | |
| Willis Reed | m | 1942-2023 | basketball | | |
| Connie Hawkins | m | 1942-2017 | basketball | (Cornelius) | |
| Gail Goodrich | m | 1943- | basketball | | |
| Billy Cunningham | m | 1943- | basketball | (William) | |
| Bill Bradley | m | 1943- | basketball | (William, Warren) | |
| Ratomir Tvrdić | m | 1943- | basketball | | |
| Dave Bing | m | 1943- | basketball | (David) | |
| Sergei Belov | m | 1944-2013 | basketball | (Alexandrovich) | |
| Rick Barry | m | 1944- | basketball | (Richard) | |
| Mel Daniels | m | 1944-2015 | basketball | (Melvin) | |
| Louie Dampier | m | 1944- | basketball | (Louis) | |
| Earl Monroe | m | 1944- | basketball | | |
| Walt Frazier | m | 1945- | basketball | (Walter) | |
| Elvin Hayes | m | 1945- | basketball | | |
| Wes Unseld | m | 1946-2020 | basketball | (Westley) | |
| Jo Jo White | m | 1946-2018 | basketball | (Joseph, Henry) | |
| Aíto García Reneses | m | 1946- | basketball | (Alejandro) | |
| Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | m | 1947- | basketball | (Ferdinand, Lewis) | |
| Pete Maravich | m | 1947-1988 | basketball | (Peter) | |
| Calvin Murphy | m | 1948- | basketball | | |
| Nate Archibald | m | 1948- | basketball | (Nathaniel) | |
| Bob Lanier | m | 1948-2022 | basketball | (Robert) | |
| Dan Issel | m | 1948- | basketball | (Daniel) | |
| Dave Cowens | m | 1948- | basketball | (David) | |
| Krešimir Ćosić | m | 1948-1995 | basketball | (Krešo) | |
| Charlie Scott | m | 1948- | basketball | (Charles, Thomas) | |
| Spencer Haywood | m | 1949- | basketball | | |
| Jesús Iradier | m | 1949- | basketball | | |
| Artis Gilmore | m | 1949- | basketball | | |
| Carmelo Cabrera | m | 1950- | basketball | | |
| Dino Meneghin | m | 1950- | basketball | | |
| Julius Erving | m | 1950- | basketball | | |
| Gonzalo Sagi-Vela | m | 1950- | basketball | | |
| George McGinnis | m | 1950- | basketball | | |
| Paul Westphal | m | 1950-2021 | basketball | | |
| Bob McAdoo | m | 1951- | basketball | (Robert) | |
| Dražen Dalipagić | m | 1951- | basketball | | |
| Bobby Jones | m | 1951- | basketball | (Robert, Clyde) | |
| George Gervin | m | 1952- | basketball | | |
| Bill Walton | m | 1952- | basketball | (William) | |
| Jamaal Wilkes | m | 1953- | basketball | | |
| Robert Parish | m | 1953- | basketball | | |
| Alex English | m | 1954- | basketball | (Alexander) | |
| David Thompson | m | 1954- | basketball | | |
| Alvan Adams | m | 1954- | basketball | (Leigh) | |
| Dennis Johnson | m | 1954-2007 | basketball | | |
| Joe Bryant | m | 1954- | basketball | (Joseph, Washington) | |
| Adrian Dantley | m | 1955- | basketball | (Delano) | |
| Moses Malone | m | 1955-2015 | basketball | | |
| Jack Sikma | m | 1955- | basketball | | |
| Maurice Cheeks | m | 1956- | basketball | | |
| Bernard King | m | 1956- | basketball | | |
| Larry Bird | m | 1956- | basketball | (Joe) | |
| Nikos Galis | m | 1957- | basketball | (Nikolaos) | |
| Sidney Moncrief | m | 1957- | basketball | | |
| Kevin McHale | m | 1957- | basketball | | |
| Oscar Schmidt | m | 1958- | basketball | | |
| Cándido Sibilio | m | 1958-2019 | basketball | (Chicho, Antonio) | |
| Aleksandar Petrović | m | 1959- | basketball | (Aco) | |
| Earvin "Magic" Johnson | m | 1959- | basketball | | |
| Dominique Wilkins | m | 1960- | basketball | (Jacques) | |
| Sabahudin Bilalović | m | 1960-2003 | basketball | | |
| Ralph Sampson | m | 1960- | basketball | | |
| James Worthy | m | 1961- | basketball | | |
| Sergio Scariolo | m | 1961- | basketball | | |
| Isiah Thomas | m | 1961- | basketball | | |
| Dennis Rodman | m | 1961- | basketball | | |
| John Stockton | m | 1962- | basketball | (Houston) | |
| Clyde Drexler | m | 1962- | basketball | (Austin) | |
| Jerome Kersey | m | 1962-2015 | basketball | | |
| Patrick Ewing | m | 1962- | basketball | (Aloysius) | |
| Hakeem Olajuwon | m | 1963- | basketball | (Abdul) | |
| Michael Jordan | m | 1963- | basketball | (Jeffrey) | |
| Charles Barkley | m | 1963- | basketball | (Wade) | |
| Joe Dumars | m | 1963- | basketball | | |
| Karl Malone | m | 1963- | basketball | (Anthony) | |
| Chris Mullin | m | 1963- | basketball | (Christopher, Paul) | |
| Jordi Villacampa | m | 1963- | basketball | | |
| Danko Cvjetićanin | m | 1963- | basketball | | |
| Stojko Vranković | m | 1964- | basketball | (Stojan) | |
| Šarūnas Marčiulionis | m | 1964- | basketball | (Raimondas) | |
| Dražen Petrović | m | 1964-1993 | basketball | | |
| Tiit Sokk | m | 1964- | basketball | (Tout) | |
| Arvydas Sabonis | m | 1964- | basketball | (Romas) | |
| Velimir Perasović | m | 1965- | basketball | | |
| Franjo Arapović | m | 1965- | basketball | | |
| Mitch Richmond | m | 1965- | basketball | (Mitchell, James) | |
| David Robinson | m | 1965- | basketball | (Maurice) | |
| Reggie Miller | m | 1965- | basketball | (Reginald, Wayne) | |
| Aramis Naglić | m | 1965- | basketball | | |
| Scottie Pippen | m | 1965- | basketball | (Scotty, Maurice) | |
| Dikembe Mutombo | m | 1966- | basketball | | |
| Hersey Hawkins | m | 1966- | basketball | | |
| Tim Legler | m | 1966- | basketball | (Timothy, Eugene) | |
| Dino Rađa | m | 1967- | basketball | | |
| Vlade Divac | m | 1968- | basketball | | |
| Ferran Martínez | m | 1968- | basketball | | |
| Gary Payton | m | 1968- | basketball | (Dwayne) | |
| Toni Kukoč | m | 1968- | basketball | | |
| Dinos Angelidis | m | 1969- | basketball | (Konstantinos) | |
| Arijan Komazec | m | 1970- | basketball | | |
| Alonzo Mourning | m | 1970- | basketball | (Harding) | |
| Žan Tabak | m | 1970- | basketball | | |
| Shaquille O'Neal | m | 1972- | basketball | (Shaq, Rashaun) | |
| Grant Hill | m | 1972- | basketball | (Henry) | |
| Jason Kidd | m | 1973- | basketball | (Frederick) | |
| Iñaki de Miguel | m | 1973- | basketball | (Ignacio) | |
| Corliss Williamson | m | 1973- | basketball | (Mondari) | |
| Steve Nash | m | 1974- | basketball | (Stephen) | |
| Jaume Comas | m | 1974- | basketball | | |
| Fabricio Oberto | m | 1975- | basketball | (Raúl, Jesús) | |
| Shammond Williams | m | 1975- | basketball | (Omar) | |
| Allen Iverson | m | 1975- | basketball | (Ezail) | |
| Ray Allen | m | 1975- | basketball | (Walter) | |
| Nikola Prkačin | m | 1975- | basketball | (Nikša) | |
| Tim Duncan | m | 1976- | basketball | (Timothy, Theodore) | |
| Kevin Garnett | m | 1976- | basketball | (Maurice) | |
| Mirsad Türkcan | m | 1976- | basketball | | |
| Oriol Junyent | m | 1976- | basketball | | |
| Iker Iturbe | m | 1976- | basketball | | |
| Rafer Alston | m | 1976- | basketball | (Jamel) | |
| Vince Carter | m | 1977- | basketball | (Vincent, Lamar) | |
| Stephon Marbury | m | 1977- | basketball | (Xavier) | |
| Manu Ginóbili | m | 1977- | basketball | (Emanuel, David) | |
| Ido Kozikaro | m | 1978- | basketball | | |
| Darius Songaila | m | 1978- | basketball | | |
| Stephen Jackson | m | 1978- | basketball | (Jesse) | |
| Mithat Demirel | m | 1978- | basketball | | |
| Dirk Nowitzki | m | 1978- | basketball | | |
| Kobe Bryant | m | 1978-2020 | basketball | (Bean) | |
| Rasual Butler | m | 1979-2018 | basketball | | |
| Tracy McGrady | m | 1979- | basketball | | |
| Lamar Odom | m | 1979- | basketball | (Joseph) | |
| Tayshaun Prince | m | 1980- | basketball | (Durell) | |
| Felipe Reyes | m | 1980- | basketball | | |
| Mario Kasun | m | 1980- | basketball | | |
| Berni Rodríguez | m | 1980- | basketball | (Bernardo) | |
| Juan Carlos Navarro | m | 1980- | basketball | | |
| Pau Gasol | m | 1980- | basketball | | |
| Yao Ming | m | 1980- | basketball | | |
| Andrei Kirilenko | m | 1981- | basketball | (Gennadyevich) | |
| José Calderón | m | 1981- | basketball | (Manuel) | |
| Darius Miles | m | 1981- | basketball | (LaVar) | |
| Dwyane Wade | m | 1982- | basketball | (Tyrone) | |
| Victor Khryapa | m | 1982- | basketball | (Vladimirovich) | |
| Emeka Okafor | m | 1982- | basketball | (Chukwuemeka, Ndubuisi) | |
| Tyson Chandler | m | 1982- | basketball | (Cleotis) | |
| Amar'e Stoudemire | m | 1982- | basketball | (Yahoshafat, Ben, Carsares, Jehoshaphat) | |
| Sergei Monia | m | 1983- | basketball | (Alexandrovich) | |
| Fernando San Emeterio | m | 1984- | basketball | | |
| Andre Iguodala | m | 1984- | basketball | (Tyler) | |
| Víctor Sada | m | 1984- | basketball | | |
| Chris Bosh | m | 1984- | basketball | (Christopher, Wesson) | |
| Carmelo Anthony | m | 1984- | basketball | (Kyam) | |
| Deron Williams | m | 1984- | basketball | (Michael) | |
| LeBron James | m | 1984- | basketball | (Raymone) | |
| Tanel Sokk | m | 1985- | basketball | | |
| Marc Gasol | m | 1985- | basketball | | |
| Milovan Raković | m | 1985- | basketball | | |
| Rudy Fernández | m | 1985- | basketball | (Rodolfo) | |
| Chris Paul | m | 1985- | basketball | (Christopher, Emmanuel) | |
| Sasha Kaun | m | 1985- | basketball | (Alexander, Olegovich) | |
| Vitaly Fridzon | m | 1985- | basketball | (Valeryevich) | |
| Dwight Howard | m | 1985- | basketball | (David) | |
| Anton Ponkrashov | m | 1986- | basketball | (Aleksandrovich) | |
| Evgeny Voronov | m | 1986- | basketball | (Sergeyevich) | |
| Sergio Rodríguez | m | 1986- | basketball | | |
| Timofey Mozgov | m | 1986- | basketball | (Pavlovich) | |
| Joonas Suotamo | m | 1986- | basketball | (Viljami) | |
| Pau Ribas | m | 1987- | basketball | | |
| Yogev Ohayon | m | 1987- | basketball | | |
| Javier Beirán | m | 1987- | basketball | | |
| Sergio Llull | m | 1987- | basketball | | |
| Stephen Curry | m | 1988- | basketball | (Wardell) | |
| Pape Sy | m | 1988- | basketball | (Ousseynou) | |
| Víctor Claver | m | 1988- | basketball | | |
| Kevin Love | m | 1988- | basketball | (Wesley) | |
| Kevin Durant | m | 1988- | basketball | (Wayne) | |
| Derrick Rose | m | 1988- | basketball | | |
| Quino Colom | m | 1988- | basketball | (Joaquim) | |
| Russell Westbrook | m | 1988- | basketball | | |
| Alexey Shved | m | 1988- | basketball | (Viktorovich) | |
| Xavi Rabaseda | m | 1989- | basketball | (Xavier) | |
| Justin Holiday | m | 1989- | basketball | (Alaric) | |
| Bojan Bogdanović | m | 1989- | basketball | | |
| Kalin Lucas | m | 1989- | basketball | | |
| Semyon Antonov | m | 1989- | basketball | (Sergeyevich) | |
| Dmitry Khvostov | m | 1989- | basketball | (Grigoryevich) | |
| James Harden | m | 1989- | basketball | (Edward) | |
| Serge Ibaka | m | 1989- | basketball | (Jonas) | |
| Jrue Holiday | m | 1990- | basketball | (Randall) | |
| Fab Melo | m | 1990-2017 | basketball | (Fabricio, Paulino) | |
| Iman Shumpert | m | 1990- | basketball | (Asante) | |
| John Wall | m | 1990- | basketball | (Johnathan) | |
| Ricky Rubio | m | 1990- | basketball | (Ricard) | |
| Nikola Mirotić | m | 1991- | basketball | | |
| Tornike Shengelia | m | 1991- | basketball | | |
| Pierre Oriola | m | 1992- | basketball | (David) | |
| Anthony Davis | m | 1993- | basketball | (Marshon) | |
| Guillem Vives | m | 1993- | basketball | | |
| Sergey Karasev | m | 1993- | basketball | (Vasiliyevich) | |
| Willy Hernangómez | m | 1994- | basketball | (Guillermo, Gustavo) | |
| Sindarius Thornwell | m | 1994- | basketball | | |
| Giannis Antetokounmpo | m | 1994- | basketball | | |
| Nikola Jokić | m | 1995- | basketball | | |
| Kenan Sipahi | m | 1995- | basketball | | |
| Juan Hernangómez | m | 1995- | basketball | (Juancho, Alberto) | |
| Jock Landale | m | 1995- | basketball | | |
| Zion Williamson | m | 2000- | basketball | (Lateef) | |
| Cade Cunningham | m | 2001- | basketball | (Parker) | |