# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-telfer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:29:46.565Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-telfer"
name: "Jim Telfer"
slug: "jim-telfer"
description: "James Telfer is a Scottish former rugby union coach and player. As a player, he won 21 international caps in the amateur era, also having a career as a headmaster at Hawick High School and Galashiels Academy and Forrester High School as a chemistry teacher. With Sir Ian McGeechan he had success with both the Scotland national team and the British Lions."
tagline: "Scottish rugby union footballer and coach"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1940-03-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.74
  momentum:             4.550128534704371
  historical:           6.353709333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Telfer"
    title: "Jim Telfer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1"
    title: "جيم تيلفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Telfer"
    title: "Jim Telfer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Telfer"
    title: "Jim Telfer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Telfer"
    title: "Jim Telfer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Telfer"
    title: "Jim Telfer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Telfer"
    title: "Jim Telfer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q448009"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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