# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/greg-somerville
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:54:35.230Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/greg-somerville"
name: "Greg Somerville"
slug: "greg-somerville"
description: "Greg Mardon Somerville is a New Zealand retired rugby union player. He is a former All Black and a specialised tighthead prop who can also play loosehead. Somerville made his All Black debut in 2000 against Tonga, a match in which the All Blacks won 102–0. Somerville went 41 test matches before scoring his first, and only test try against Fiji in 2005. Somerville played domestic rugby for Canterbury Rugby Football Union and for the Crusaders in the Super Rugby competition, having played 100 matches for the latter after debuting against the Chiefs in 1999. Somerville's nickname is Yoda, after the fictional character from Star Wars due to their resemblance."
tagline: "New Zealand rugby union footballer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Greg_Somerville_2011_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1977-11-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.96
  momentum:             5.593220338983051
  historical:           5.676098666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Somerville"
    title: "Greg Somerville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Somerville"
    title: "Greg Somerville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Somerville"
    title: "Greg Somerville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B3_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BB"
    title: "Грег Сомервил"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Somerville"
    title: "Greg Somerville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B3"
    title: "Сомервилль, Грег"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1544987"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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