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Dragan Kicanovic
Dragan Kicanovic (Драган Кићановић), born 1953 in Čačak, Serbian shooting guard, Yugoslav star with Partizan Belgrade; Olympic gold 1980, World champion 1978, three EuroBasket titles, FIBA Hall of Fame 2010, later Olympic Committee president 1996-2005.
Frank Lubin
Frank Lubin (Pranas Lubinas, 1910–1999) was an American-Lithuanian basketball center who won the first Olympic basketball gold with the USA at the 1936 Berlin Games.
Nadezhda Shuvayeva Olkhova
Nadezhda Shuvayeva-Olkhova (Надежда Александровна Шуваева-Ольхова), born 1952 in Barnaul, is a Soviet basketball player, two-time Olympic champion (1976, 1980), two-time world and six-time European champion, later a Kazakh sports official.
Nadezhda Zakharova
Nadezhda Dmitriyevna Zakharova (Надежда Дмитриевна Захарова), born 1945, Soviet basketball player; 1976 Olympic gold, World Cup 1971 and 1975, five EuroBasket titles; not the 1980 refusenik of the same name.
Wally Jones
Wally "Wah Wah" Jones (1926-2014), Kentucky basketball and football star, 1948 Olympic basketball gold medalist, two-time NCAA champion, Indianapolis Olympians player, and Fayette County sheriff. Not the NBA guard Wali Jones or R. William Jones of FIBA.