# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wayne-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:51:57.954Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wayne-smith"
name: "Wayne Smith"
slug: "wayne-smith"
description: "Sir Wayne Ross Smith is a New Zealand rugby union coach and former player. He has won three Rugby World Cups; he was an assistant coach with New Zealand's men's team, the All Blacks, who won the 2011 and 2015 World Cups, and was head coach of the New Zealand women's team, the Black Ferns, won the 2021 World Cup, held in 2022."
tagline: "New Zealand rugby union footballer and coach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wayne_Smith_CNZM_(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: "1957-04-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.56
  momentum:             25
  historical:           5.926894666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Smith"
    title: "Wayne Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB_(%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A8_%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%BA%D8%A8%D9%8A)"
    title: "واين سميث (لاعب اتحاد الرغبي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Smith_(rugby_union)"
    title: "Wayne Smith (rugby union)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B9_(%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B0%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC%E9%81%B8%E6%89%8B)"
    title: "ウェイン・スミス (ラグビー選手)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Smith_(rugby_%C3%A0_XV)"
    title: "Wayne Smith (rugby à XV)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Smith_(rugbista)"
    title: "Wayne Smith (rugbista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3566861"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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