# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-de-villiers
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:45:06.562Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-de-villiers"
name: "Jean de Villiers"
slug: "jean-de-villiers"
description: "Jean de Villiers is a South African former professional rugby union player. He started his career at wing, but played most of his career as an inside centre. De Villiers previously played for Western Province in the Currie Cup, the Stormers in Super Rugby, Leicester Tigers in Premiership Rugby and internationally for South Africa, for whom he was named captain in June 2012."
tagline: "South African rugby union footballer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean_de_Villiers_2012_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1981-02-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.85
  momentum:             2.294501715213463
  historical:           8.781645333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%94%D0%B5_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81"
    title: "Жан Де Вилијерс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_Villiers"
    title: "Jean de Villiers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_Villiers_(Rugbyspieler)"
    title: "Jean de Villiers (Rugbyspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_Villiers"
    title: "Jean de Villiers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_Villiers_(rugbista)"
    title: "Jean de Villiers (rugbista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_Villiers_(errugbilaria)"
    title: "Jean de Villiers (errugbilaria)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_Villiers_(rugby_%C3%A0_XV)"
    title: "Jean de Villiers (rugby à XV)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_Villiers_(rugbista)"
    title: "Jean de Villiers (rugbista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ジャン・デヴィリアス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_Villiers_(rugbysta)"
    title: "Jean de Villiers (rugbysta)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q276102"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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