# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heyneke-meyer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:29:48.594Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heyneke-meyer"
name: "Heyneke Meyer"
slug: "heyneke-meyer"
description: "Heyneke Meyer is a professional rugby union coach, best known for coaching the Springboks from 2012 until 2015. Prior to coaching the Springboks, he spent many years at the domestic level in South Africa before coaching Leicester Tigers in England. Following his stint with the Boks, he also coached Stade Français. On 8 July 2021 he was announced as the new Director of Rugby for the Houston Sabercats of MLR."
tagline: "South African rugby union coach"
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: "1967-10-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.151441333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heyneke_Meyer"
    title: "Heyneke Meyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heyneke_Meyer"
    title: "Heyneke Meyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "هاينيك ماير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heyneke_Meyer"
    title: "Heyneke Meyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heyneke_Meyer"
    title: "Heyneke Meyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heyneke_Meyer"
    title: "Heyneke Meyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heyneke_Meyer"
    title: "Heyneke Meyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q496505"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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