# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samu-manoa
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:58:36.515Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samu-manoa"
name: "Samu Manoa"
slug: "samu-manoa"
description: "Samu Manoa is an American rugby union player who plays for the Seattle Seawolves in Major League Rugby (MLR).\nManoa was described in 2014 by ESPNscrum.com as \"perhaps the finest No. 8 playing the game in the northern hemisphere.\" He retired from international rugby in 2019 with 22 caps."
tagline: "Rugby player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Samu_Manoa_2013_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1985-03-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.55
  momentum:             1.385135135135135
  historical:           4.612132
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samu_Manoa"
    title: "Samu Manoa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samu_Manoa"
    title: "Samu Manoa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samu_Manoa"
    title: "Samu Manoa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%8E%E3%82%A2"
    title: "サム・マノア"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%83_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B0"
    title: "Саму Маноа"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7410667"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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