# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-jones
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:16:37.032Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-jones"
name: "Ian Jones"
slug: "ian-jones"
description: "Ian Donald Jones is a former New Zealand rugby union player. He played 79 tests for the All Blacks. He is one of New Zealand's most capped locks and formed one of the most famous lock pairings in international rugby, often partnered with Robin Brooke in the All Blacks from 1992 to 1998. What Jones lacked in size he more than made up for in skill, Jones was picked over physically intimidating locks such as Mark Cooksley who was the tallest All Black ever. Jones made his All Black debut Saturday, 16 June 1990 v Scotland at Dunedin. At the time he was 23 years, 60 days old."
tagline: "New Zealand rugby union player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ian_Jones_2016.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: "1967-04-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.02
  momentum:             6.885189369165826
  historical:           5.024084
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "يان جونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Jones_(rugby_union%2C_born_1967)"
    title: "Ian Jones (rugby union, born 1967)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Jones"
    title: "Ian Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Jones_(rugby_%C3%A0_XV)"
    title: "Ian Jones (rugby à XV)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Jones"
    title: "Ian Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3147285"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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