# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-thornett
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:17:46.087Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-thornett"
name: "John Thornett"
slug: "john-thornett"
description: "John Edward Thornett, MBE was an Australian rugby union player, who played 37 Tests for Australia between 1955 and 1967 and made an additional 77 representative match appearances. He captained Australia in 16 Test matches and on an additional 47 tour matches on the eight international rugby tours he made with Wallaby squads."
tagline: "Australian rugby union player (1935-2019)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1935-03-30"
deathDate: "2019-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.5
  momentum:             0.6024096385542169
  historical:           5.473002666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thornett"
    title: "John Thornett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thornett"
    title: "John Thornett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thornett"
    title: "John Thornett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thornett"
    title: "John Thornett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thornett"
    title: "John Thornett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%82%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Торнетт, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3182601"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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