# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maurice-boyau
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:20:12.830Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maurice-boyau"
name: "Maurice Boyau"
slug: "maurice-boyau"
description: "Maurice Jean-Paul Boyau was a French rugby union player and a leading French ace of the First World War with 35 victories, and one of the most successful balloon busters. Balloon busting was the dangerous act of bringing down enemy observation balloons; these balloons were densely protected by anti-aircraft artillery and patrol flights."
tagline: "French rugby union player (1888-1918)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maurice_Boyau_1918.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1888-05-08"
deathDate: "1918-09-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.03
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.478078666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Boyau"
    title: "Maurice Boyau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "ماوريس بوياو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Boyau"
    title: "Maurice Boyau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8E%AB%E9%87%8C%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E5%B8%83%E7%93%A6%E7%B4%84"
    title: "莫里斯·布瓦約"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Boyau"
    title: "Maurice Boyau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Boyau"
    title: "Maurice Boyau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3300490"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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