# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willie-john-mcbride
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:54:28.200Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willie-john-mcbride"
name: "Willie John McBride"
slug: "willie-john-mcbride"
description: "William James McBride, better known as Willie John McBride, is a former rugby union footballer from Northern Ireland who played as a lock for Ireland and the British and Irish Lions. He made 63 appearances for Ireland, including eleven as captain, and toured with the Lions five times; a record that earned him 17 Lions Test caps and 71 appearances in the red jersey. He also captained one of the most successful Lions sides, which returned undefeated from South Africa in 1974. McBride, inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame in 2009, is regarded as one of the most influential figures ever to play the game."
tagline: "Irish rugby union footballer and coach"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1940-06-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.77
  momentum:             33.57449417535254
  historical:           7.946370666666667
  currentAttention:     16.8
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Willie John McBride"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "ويلى جون ماكبرايد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_John_McBride"
    title: "Willie John McBride"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_John_McBride"
    title: "Willie John McBride"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_John_McBride"
    title: "Willie John McBride"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_McBride"
    title: "Willie McBride"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_John_McBride"
    title: "Willie John McBride"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie-John_McBride"
    title: "Willie-John McBride"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_John_McBride"
    title: "Willie John McBride"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q448312"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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