# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-lacey
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:11:00.702Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-lacey"
name: "John Lacey"
slug: "john-lacey"
description: "John Lacey is a former Ireland A and Ireland Sevens rugby union international and current rugby union referee. As a player, Lacey spent most of career with Shannon in the All-Ireland League. He also represented Munster. As an international referee he has taken charge of matches in the Six Nations Championship, the Rugby Championship and the Rugby World Cup. He also refereed the 2013 Pro12 Grand Final and the 2015–16 and 2016–17 European Rugby Challenge Cup finals."
tagline: "Irish rugby union player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Lacey_2015_RWC.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: "1973-10-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.77
  momentum:             9.766949152542376
  historical:           4.80702
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A"
    title: "جون لاسي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lacey"
    title: "John Lacey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lacey_(rugby_union)"
    title: "John Lacey (rugby union)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lacey_(rugby_%C3%A0_XV)"
    title: "John Lacey (rugby à XV)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lacey"
    title: "John Lacey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16214484"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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