# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-rogers
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:33:03.791Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-rogers"
name: "William Rogers"
slug: "william-rogers"
description: "William Lister \"Lefty\" Rogers was an American rugby union player who competed with the team in the 1924 Summer Olympics when it won the gold medal. He graduated from Stanford University in 1923 and then went on to get his M.D. in 1926 from the same university; in 1966 he became a member of the university's board of trustees. He became one of the founding members of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. Besides rugby he also played basketball at Stanford."
tagline: "American rugby union player (1902–1987)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1902-02-06"
deathDate: "1987-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.001224
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rogers_(jogador_de_rugby)"
    title: "William Rogers (jogador de rugby)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rogers"
    title: "William Rogers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rogers_(rugby_union)"
    title: "William Rogers (rugby union)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%B1%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: "ویلیام راجرز (بازیکن راگبی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rogers_(r%C3%B6gbij%C3%A1t%C3%A9kos)"
    title: "William Rogers (rögbijátékos)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rogers_(rugbyspeler)"
    title: "William Rogers (rugbyspeler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rogers_(rugbyspiller)"
    title: "William Rogers (rugbyspiller)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rogers_(rugbysta)"
    title: "William Rogers (rugbysta)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3443975"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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