# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martyn-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:32:57.858Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martyn-williams"
name: "Martyn Williams"
slug: "martyn-williams"
description: "Martyn Elwyn Williams, is a Welsh former professional rugby union player who played as a flanker. He earned 100 caps for the Wales national team, the most by a forward until he was surpassed by Gethin Jenkins in November 2013. He remains Wales's most-capped back-row forward. He also played for the British & Irish Lions, touring Australia in 2001, New Zealand in 2005 and South Africa in 2009. Overall, he played 17 times for the Lions across the 3 tours scoring 2 tries which included 4 test matches."
tagline: "Welsh rugby union player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Martyn_Williams.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: "1975-09-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.11
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.212168
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Мартин Вилијамс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2"
    title: "مارتين وليامز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_Williams"
    title: "Martyn Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_Williams"
    title: "Martyn Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_Williams"
    title: "Martyn Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_Williams"
    title: "Martyn Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_Williams"
    title: "Martyn Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_Williams"
    title: "Martyn Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q934531"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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