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Richie McCaw

New Zealand international rugby union player

  • Fame55.8
  • Momentum4.3
  • New Zealand rank#121
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  • Fame55.8
  • Momentum4.3
  • New Zealand rank#121
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Born 1980 · age 46New Zealand
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  • Wikipedia
    24 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Rank in New Zealand
    #121
    Footballers
  • Age
    46
    Born 1980
  • Awards
    6
    recognised works
Summary
Updated 2026-06-30

Richard Hugh McCaw is a New Zealand retired professional rugby union player. He captained the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks, in 110 out of his 148 test matches, and won two Rugby World Cups. He has won the World Rugby Player of the Year award a joint record three times and was the most capped test rugby player of all time from August 2015 to October 2020. McCaw was awarded World Rugby player of the decade (2011–2020) in 2021. McCaw is also a winner of the New Zealand sportsman of the decade award.

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Teams

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  • Barbarian FC
    2008–2008
  • New Zealand national rugby union team
    2001–2015
  • Crusaders
    2001–2015
  • Canterbury RFU
    2000
20002015
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Season stats

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2008–200810
2001–2015148125
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Awards

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  • World Rugby Hall of Fame
  • New Zealander of the Year
  • Order of New Zealand
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Score breakdown

The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.

Fame
Rising
55.8
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum4.3
Historical19.6
Now attention10.7
Source confidence65.0
Completeness75.0
Global rank
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Country rank
#121
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