# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gary-botha
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:45:47.364Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gary-botha"
name: "Gary Botha"
slug: "gary-botha"
description: "Gary van Ginkel Botha is a former rugby union player, that professionally played as a hooker between 2002 and 2013. He spent the majority of his career at his home-town team the Blue Bulls and their affiliated Super Rugby team the Bulls, but he also had spells at the Sharks, at English side Harlequins and at French Top 14 side Toulouse. He also played in 12 test matches for South Africa from 2005 to 2007."
tagline: "South African rugby union and rugby league footballer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ST_vs_RCT_-_December_2011_-_Gary_Botha.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: "1981-10-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.07
  momentum:             0.4897959183673469
  historical:           6.342585333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0"
    title: "Гари Бота"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "غاري بوتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "جارى بوتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Botha"
    title: "Gary Botha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Botha"
    title: "Gary Botha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Botha"
    title: "Gary Botha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0%2C_%D0%93%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Бота, Гэри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q518349"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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