# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wayne-shelford
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:03:02.588Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wayne-shelford"
name: "Wayne Shelford"
slug: "wayne-shelford"
description: "Sir Wayne Thomas Shelford is a New Zealand former rugby union player and coach who represented and captained New Zealand in the late 1980s. Nicknamed \"Buck\", he played as a number eight for Auckland, North Harbour, Northampton and Rugby Roma."
tagline: "New Zealand rugby union footballer and coach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wayne_Shelford_KNZM_(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: "1957-12-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.35
  momentum:             9.672604788955482
  historical:           4.865628
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Shelford"
    title: "Buck Shelford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Shelford"
    title: "Wayne Shelford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Shelford"
    title: "Buck Shelford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Shelford"
    title: "Buck Shelford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Shelford"
    title: "Wayne Shelford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2927462"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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