# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ken-catchpole
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:44:08.341Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ken-catchpole"
name: "Ken Catchpole"
slug: "ken-catchpole"
description: "Kenneth William Catchpole was an Australian rugby union footballer. A state and national representative half-back, he played twenty-seven matches for Australia, thirteen as captain. Catchpole rose through the ranks at the Randwick club as a young man, before making his debut for New South Wales at only 19 years of age, then captaining Australia at age 21. He is considered one of Australia's greatest rugby scrumhalves."
tagline: "Australian rugby union player (1939-2017)"
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: "1939-06-21"
deathDate: "2017-12-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.52
  momentum:             16.0620320855615
  historical:           5.480238666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Catchpole"
    title: "Ken Catchpole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Catchpole"
    title: "Ken Catchpole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Catchpole"
    title: "Ken Catchpole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Catchpole"
    title: "Ken Catchpole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Catchpole"
    title: "Ken Catchpole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%8D%D1%82%D1%87%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%BB%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Кэтчпоул, Кен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3195023"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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