# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fourie-du-preez
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:35:47.134Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fourie-du-preez"
name: "Fourie du Preez"
slug: "fourie-du-preez"
description: "Petrus Fourie du Preez is a South African former professional rugby union player who played as a scrum-half for the Bulls between 2001 and 2011, and for Suntory Sungoliath in Japan from 2011 to 2016. He represented South Africa from 2004 to 2015, earning 76 caps and scoring 16 tries. Du Preez played in three Rugby World Cup tournaments and was a central figure in South Africa's victory at the 2007 Rugby World Cup."
tagline: "South African rugby union player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fourie_du_Preez_2007_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: "1982-03-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.8
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.10137066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Фури ду През"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourie_du_Preez"
    title: "Fourie du Preez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourie_du_Preez"
    title: "Fourie du Preez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourie_du_Preez"
    title: "Fourie du Preez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourie_du_Preez"
    title: "Fourie du Preez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourie_du_Preez"
    title: "Fourie du Preez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourie_du_Preez"
    title: "Fourie du Preez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%AF%D9%88_%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "فوری دو پرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourie_du_Preez"
    title: "Fourie du Preez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourie_du_Preez"
    title: "Fourie du Preez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%A5%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A2"
    title: "フーリー・デュプレア"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourie_du_Preez"
    title: "Fourie du Preez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q383886"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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