# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tendai-mtawarira
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:27:11.012Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tendai-mtawarira"
name: "Tendai Mtawarira"
slug: "tendai-mtawarira"
description: "Tendai Mtawarira is a Zimbabwean-South African retired professional rugby union player who last played for Old Glory DC in Major League Rugby and previously for the South Africa national team and the Sharks in Super Rugby. He was born in Zimbabwe and qualified for South Africa on residency grounds, before later acquiring South African citizenship. Mtawarira, a prop, is known by the nickname Beast."
tagline: "South African rugby union footballer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tendai_Mtawarira.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1985-08-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.66
  momentum:             15
  historical:           10.31760666666667
  currentAttention:     0.28
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/tendaimtawarira/"
    handle:    "tendaimtawarira"
sources:
  - url: "https://zu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendai_Mtawarira"
    title: "Tendai Mtawarira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendai_Mtawarira"
    title: "Tendai Mtawarira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "تينداي متاواريرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%89_%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "تينداى متاواريرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendai_Mtawarira"
    title: "Tendai Mtawarira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendai_Mtawarira"
    title: "Tendai Mtawarira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendai_Mtawarira"
    title: "Tendai Mtawarira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendai_Mtawarira"
    title: "Tendai Mtawarira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendai_Mtawarira"
    title: "Tendai Mtawarira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BF%E3%83%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A9"
    title: "テンダイ・ムタワリラ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendai_Mtawarira"
    title: "Tendai Mtawarira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%B8_%D0%9C%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0"
    title: "Тендаи Мтаварира"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q441972"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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