# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-wills
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:46:22.586Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-wills"
name: "Tom Wills"
slug: "tom-wills"
description: "Thomas Wentworth Wills was an Australian sportsman who is credited with being Australia's first cricketer of significance and a founder of Australian rules football. Born in the British penal colony of New South Wales to a wealthy family descended from convicts, Wills grew up in the bush on stations owned by his father, the squatter and politician Horatio Wills, in what is now the state of Victoria. As a child, he befriended local Aboriginal people, learning their language and customs. Aged 14, Wills went to England to attend Rugby School, where he became captain of its cricket team and played an early version of rugby football. After Rugby, Wills represented Cambridge University in the annual cricket match against Oxford, and played at first-class level for Kent and the Marylebone Cricket Club. An athletic bowling all-rounder with tactical nous, he was regarded as one of the finest young cricketers in England."
tagline: "Australian sportsman (1835–1880)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom_Wills_photograph.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "AU"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1835-08-19"
deathDate: "1880-05-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.4675810473815462
  historical:           9.260444
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump