# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/neil-francis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:09:48.414Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/neil-francis"
name: "Neil Francis"
slug: "neil-francis"
description: "Neil Francis is a retired Irish rugby union lock forward and number eight. He played club rugby for Blackrock College, London Irish, Old Belvedere and provincially for Leinster. Francis also earned 36 caps for Ireland between 1987 and 1996 and competed in three rugby world cups in 1987, 1991 and 1995 respectively."
tagline: "Irish rugby union footballer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1964-03-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.72
  momentum:             0.2105263157894737
  historical:           5.673650666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Francis_(rugby_union)"
    title: "Neil Francis (rugby union)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "نيل فرنسيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "نيل فرنسيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%81%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BB_(%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82)"
    title: "Фрэнсис, Нил (регбист)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Francis"
    title: "Neil Francis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Francis"
    title: "Neil Francis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3337816"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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