# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-richards
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:03:24.106Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-richards"
name: "Tom Richards"
slug: "tom-richards"
description: "Thomas James \"Rusty\" Richards, MC was an Australian military officer and national representative rugby union player, who was born at Vegetable Creek, Emmaville in New South Wales. Richards is the only Australian-born player to ever represent both Australia and the British Lions and as such the Tom Richards Trophy is named in his honor. He is an inductee to the Australian Rugby Union Hall of Fame."
tagline: "Australian rugby union player, Australian military officer; English rugby union player (1882–1935)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom_Richards_1908.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1882-04-29"
deathDate: "1935-09-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.00612
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "汤姆·理查兹 (橄榄球运动员)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "توم ريتشاردز (لاعب اتحاد الرغبي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Richards_(ragbista)"
    title: "Tom Richards (ragbista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Richards_(Rugbyspieler)"
    title: "Tom Richards (Rugbyspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Richards_(rugby_union%2C_born_1882)"
    title: "Tom Richards (rugby union, born 1882)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Richards"
    title: "Tom Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B2_(%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%86_%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%AF%D8%A8%DB%8C)"
    title: "تام ریچاردز (بازیکن راگبی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Richards_(rugbynpelaaja)"
    title: "Tom Richards (rugbynpelaaja)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Richards"
    title: "Tom Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Richards_(rugbyspeler)"
    title: "Tom Richards (rugbyspeler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Richards"
    title: "Tom Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Richards_(rugbysta)"
    title: "Tom Richards (rugbysta)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D1%81%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81_(%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82)"
    title: "Ричардс, Томас (регбист)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q432098"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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