# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richie-mccaw
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:40:09.693Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richie-mccaw"
name: "Richie McCaw"
slug: "richie-mccaw"
description: "Richard Hugh McCaw is a New Zealand retired professional rugby union player. He captained the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks, in 110 out of his 148 test matches, and won two Rugby World Cups. He has won the World Rugby Player of the Year award a joint record three times and was the most capped test rugby player of all time from August 2015 to October 2020. McCaw was awarded World Rugby player of the decade (2011–2020) in 2021. McCaw is also a winner of the New Zealand sportsman of the decade award."
tagline: "New Zealand international rugby union player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richie_McCaw_ONZ_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
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: "1980-12-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.75
  momentum:             4.338094299750628
  historical:           19.61835066666667
  currentAttention:     10.6951871657754
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  121
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/richiemccaw/"
    handle:    "richiemccaw"
sources:
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    title: "Richie McCaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_McCaw"
    title: "Richie McCaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richie McCaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richie McCaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richie McCaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richie McCaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richie McCaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richie McCaw"
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    title: "რიჩი მაკ-კოუ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "리치 매코"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richie McCaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_McCaw"
    title: "Richie McCaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_McCaw"
    title: "Richie McCaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ричи Мако"
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    title: "Richie McCaw"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q726148"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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