# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-boston
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:19:23.474Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-boston"
name: "Billy Boston"
slug: "billy-boston"
description: "Sir William John Boston is a Welsh former professional rugby league footballer who played as a winger or centre. Born and raised in Cardiff, Wales, Boston started his career as a rugby union player before joining Wigan in 1953. Regarded as one of the sport's greatest ever players, Boston scored 571 tries in his career, making him the second-highest try scorer in rugby league history."
tagline: "Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cardiff_Bay_Rugby_Codebreakers_(1).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1934-08-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.06
  momentum:             2.542087542087542
  historical:           6.386973333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Boston"
    title: "Billy Boston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%86"
    title: "بيلي بوسطن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Boston"
    title: "Billy Boston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Boston"
    title: "Billy Boston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Boston"
    title: "Billy Boston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Boston"
    title: "Billy Boston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Boston"
    title: "Billy Boston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q863024"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump