# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nigel-richards
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:39:22.580Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nigel-richards"
name: "Nigel Richards"
slug: "nigel-richards"
description: "Nigel Richards is a New Zealand Scrabble player. Widely regarded as the greatest Scrabble player of all time, he became World Champion in 2007, and repeated the feat in 2011, 2013, 2018, and 2019. He also won the third World English-Language Scrabble Players' Association Championship (WESPAC) in 2019."
tagline: "International Scrabble champion"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nigel_Richards_2018.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
birthDate: "1967"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.910021333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A5%88%E5%82%91%E7%88%BE%C2%B7%E7%90%86%E6%9F%A5%E8%8C%B2"
    title: "奈傑爾·理查茲"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B2"
    title: "نايجل ريتشاردز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B2"
    title: "نايجل ريتشاردز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Richards"
    title: "Nigel Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Richards_(Scrabblespieler)"
    title: "Nigel Richards (Scrabblespieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Richards"
    title: "Nigel Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AC%D9%84_%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B2"
    title: "نایجل ریچاردز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Richards"
    title: "Nigel Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Richards"
    title: "Nigel Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Richards"
    title: "Nigel Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3341367"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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