# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/d-t-h-van-der-merwe
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:55:43.370Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/d-t-h-van-der-merwe"
name: "D.T.H. van der Merwe"
slug: "d-t-h-van-der-merwe"
description: "Daniel Tailliferre Hauman van der Merwe is a retired South African-Canadian professional rugby union player who last played for the LA Giltinis of Major League Rugby (MLR)."
tagline: "Canadian rugby union player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/D._T._H_van_der_Merwe_2015_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1986-04-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.57
  momentum:             0.4638472032742155
  historical:           6.560945333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/dthvdm"
    handle:    "dthvdm"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/dthvdm/"
    handle:    "dthvdm"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTH_van_der_Merwe"
    title: "DTH van der Merwe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._T._H._van_der_Merwe"
    title: "D. T. H. van der Merwe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._T._H._van_der_Merwe"
    title: "D. T. H. van der Merwe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._T._H._van_der_Merwe"
    title: "D. T. H. van der Merwe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTH_van_der_Merwe"
    title: "DTH van der Merwe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTH_van_der_Merwe"
    title: "DTH van der Merwe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTH%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1"
    title: "DTH・ファン・デル・メルヴァ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3011484"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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