# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-kirkpatrick
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:06:03.063Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-kirkpatrick"
name: "Ian Kirkpatrick"
slug: "ian-kirkpatrick"
description: "Ian Andrew Kirkpatrick is a New Zealand former rugby union player. Described as \"supremely athletic, fast, fearless and with an uncanny sense of anticipation\", Kirkpatrick is widely regarded as one of the greatest flankers to have ever played the game. His try-scoring ability was astonishing; at the time Kirkpatrick played rugby, it was rare for forwards to score tries, but his 16 test tries were an All Black record until Stu Wilson surpassed it in 1983. He also captained the All Blacks and was inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame in 2014."
tagline: "New Zealand rugby union player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ian_Kirkpatrick_1971.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: "1946-05-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.94
  momentum:             2.052631578947368
  historical:           5.891398666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Kirkpatrick"
    title: "Ian Kirkpatrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "يان كيركباتريك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Kirkpatrick"
    title: "Ian Kirkpatrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Kirkpatrick"
    title: "Ian Kirkpatrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Kirkpatrick"
    title: "Ian Kirkpatrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Kirkpatrick_(rugby_%C3%A0_XV%2C_1946)"
    title: "Ian Kirkpatrick (rugby à XV, 1946)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q348867"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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