# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/murray-pierce
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:32:15.434Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/murray-pierce"
name: "Murray Pierce"
slug: "murray-pierce"
description: "Murray James Pierce is a former New Zealand rugby union player who played as a lock forward. He won 26 caps for the All Blacks between 1984 and 1989 and played in the victorious New Zealand team at the 1987 Rugby World Cup. Pierce made his debut for the All Blacks in the 1984 tour to Australia and Fiji. In addition to his 26 international test caps, he played 28 additional games for the All Blacks. Pierce was also a sworn member of the New Zealand Police as were a number of other All Blacks of his era, such as John Gallagher."
tagline: "New Zealand rugby union player"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1957-11-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.671094666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Pierce"
    title: "Murray Pierce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3"
    title: "موراي بيرس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Pierce"
    title: "Murray Pierce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Pierce"
    title: "Murray Pierce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Pierce"
    title: "Murray Pierce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Pierce"
    title: "Murray Pierce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3328211"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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