# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-machacek
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:33:58.960Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-machacek"
name: "Jan Macháček"
slug: "jan-machacek"
description: "Jan Macháček is a former Czech rugby player. He is one of arguably the two most famous Czech rugby players, along with Martin Jágr. He played for Newport RFC and Pontypridd RFC in Wales, Sale Sharks in England, Clermont Auvergne in France as well as the Barbarians."
tagline: "Czech rugby union player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Machacek_rugby_2002_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1972-02-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.71
  momentum:             1.265822784810127
  historical:           5.469870666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Mach%C3%A1%C4%8Dek"
    title: "Jan Macháček"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "چان ماتشاسيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Mach%C3%A1%C4%8Dek_(ragbista)"
    title: "Jan Macháček (ragbista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BA%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BD"
    title: "Махачек, Ян"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Mach%C3%A1%C4%8Dek"
    title: "Jan Macháček"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Mach%C3%A1%C4%8Dek"
    title: "Jan Macháček"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3161715"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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