# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-dawes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:18:05.926Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-dawes"
name: "John Dawes"
slug: "john-dawes"
description: "Sydney John Dawes  was a Welsh rugby union player, playing at centre, and later coach. He captained London Welsh, Wales, the 1971 British Lions and the Barbarians. He is credited with being a major influence in these teams' success, and in the attractive, attacking, free-flowing rugby they played. Dawes also had considerable success as a coach with Wales, and coached the 1977 British Lions. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1972 New Year Honours List for services as Lions captain."
tagline: "Welsh rugby union footballer and coach (1940-2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Dawes.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1940-06-29"
deathDate: "2021-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.82
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.885638666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "جون دوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dawes"
    title: "John Dawes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dawes"
    title: "John Dawes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dawes"
    title: "John Dawes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dawes"
    title: "John Dawes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dawes"
    title: "John Dawes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dawes"
    title: "John Dawes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dawes"
    title: "John Dawes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q979301"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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