World Rugby Hall of Fame

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The World Rugby Hall of Fame (until 2014 IRB Hall of Fame ) is a hall of fame of the sport of rugby union , which has been run by the World Rugby Association in Glasgow since 2006 . It honors players, coaches, referees and institutions who have made a significant contribution to the development of the sport.

Another hall of fame was the International Rugby Hall of Fame from 1997 to 2007 . Its members were integrated into the World Rugby Hall of Fame in 2014.

Members

2006

Surname Nat. Career
William Webb Ellis EnglandEngland According to legend, the inventor of rugby
Rugby school EnglandEngland the private school where the game was developed

2007

Surname Nat. Career
Pierre de Coubertin FranceFrance Re-founder of the Olympic Games, referee of the first French championship final
Danie Craven South AfricaSouth Africa National team player and coach of South Africa from the 1930s to the 1950s
Gareth Edwards WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Welsh international and part of the British and Irish Lions
John Eales AustraliaAustralia Captain of the Australian national team, world champion in 1991 and 1999
Wilson Whineray New ZealandNew Zealand Captain of the New Zealand national team in the 1950s and 1960s

2008

Surname Nat. Career
Jack Kyle IRFU flag.svg Captain of the Irish national team, which in 1948 for the first time a Grand Slam in the Five Nations winning
Ned Haig and Melrose Club ScotlandScotland Inventor of 7-a-side rugby and its club
Hugo Porta ArgentinaArgentina Captain of the Argentine national team, which beat Australia for the first time
Philippe Sella FranceFrance record-breaking French national player of the amateur era
New Zealand Natives and their captain Joe Warbrick New ZealandNew Zealand Māori selection in 1888/89

2009

Surname Nat. Career
Frik you Preez South AfricaSouth Africa South African international in the 1960s
Barry Heatlie South AfricaSouth Africa Captain of the South African national team in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Bill Maclagan ScotlandScotland Captain of the Scottish national team and the British Isles in the 19th century
Willie John McBride IRFU flag.svg Player of the Irish national team and captain of the British and Irish Lions and coach of both teams
Ian McGeechan ScotlandScotland Players of the Scottish national team and the British and Irish Lions and coaches of both teams
Syd Millar IRFU flag.svg Irish international and coach, also coached the Lions in 1974; Chairman of the International Rugby Board
Cliff Morgan WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Welsh national team and Lions players
Tony O'Reilly IRFU flag.svg Irish international in the 1950s and 1960s, scoring the most attempts for the Lions
Bennie Osler South AfricaSouth Africa Captain of the South African national team in the 1920s and 1930s

2010

Surname Nat. Career
Serge Blanco FranceFrance French international in the 1980s and 1990s
André Boniface and Guy Boniface FranceFrance French internationals in the 1950s and 1960s
David Gallaher New ZealandNew Zealand first captain of the New Zealand national team
Mike Gibson IRFU flag.svg Record retired Irish national player, 68 games for Lions
Frank Hancock and his association Cardiff RFC WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Captain of the Welsh national team in the 1880s
Lucien Mias FranceFrance Captain of the French national team, led France to their first Five Nations title
William Percy Carpmael and the Barbarians EnglandEngland Captain of the Barbarians in the 1890s
Jean Prat FranceFrance French record international player at the end of his career
Alan Rotherham and Harry Vassall EnglandEngland English internationals in the 1880s

2011

Surname Nat. Career
Kitch Christie South AfricaSouth Africa Coach of the South African national team, world champion 1995
Bob Dwyer AustraliaAustralia Coach of the Australian national team, world champion 1991
Nick Farr-Jones AustraliaAustralia Captain of the Australian national team, 1991 World Champion
Martin Johnson EnglandEngland England captain, 2003 world champion, British and Irish Lions player
John Kendall-Carpenter EnglandEngland Chairman of the Rugby Football Union , co-organizer of the first World Cup
David Kirk New ZealandNew Zealand Captain of the New Zealand national team that won the first World Cup in 1987
Brian Lima SamoaSamoa Samoan international in the 1990s and 2000s
Brian Lochore New ZealandNew Zealand Captain, coach and manager of the New Zealand national team, world champion 1987
Jonah Lomu New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand national player, 15 attempts at world championships
Rod Macqueen AustraliaAustralia Coach of the Australian national team, World Champion 1999
Agustin Pichot ArgentinaArgentina Captain of the Argentine national team, which made it to the semi-finals of a World Cup for the first time in 2007
Francois Pienaar South AfricaSouth Africa Captain of the South African national team, 1995 World Champion
Gareth Rees CanadaCanada Captain of the Canadian national team in the 1990s
Nicholas Shehadie AustraliaAustralia Captain of the Australian national team in the 1950s
John Smit South AfricaSouth Africa Captain of the South African national team, 2007 world champion
Roger Vanderfield AustraliaAustralia Referee, Chairman of the Australian Rugby Union
Jake White South AfricaSouth Africa Coach of the South African national team, 2007 world champion
Clive Woodward EnglandEngland England national team coach, 2003 World Champion, 2005 Lions coach

2012

Surname Nat. Career
Ian Campbell and Donald Campbell ChileChile Chilean national team
Yoshihiro Sakata JapanJapan Japanese international in the 1960s and 1970s
Gordon Tietjens New ZealandNew Zealand Coach of the New Zealand 7-a-side rugby team, 2001 World Champion
Kennedy Tsimba and Richard Tsimba ZimbabweZimbabwe Rugby pioneers in Zimbabwe in the 1980s
United States Olympic selection United StatesUnited States Gold medalists in 1920 and 1924
Olympic selection of Romania RomaniaRomania Bronze medalist 1924

2013

Surname Nat. Career
David Bedell-Sivright ScotlandScotland Scottish international at the beginning of the 20th century
David Campese AustraliaAustralia Captain of the Australian national team, 1991 World Champion
Ken Catchpole AustraliaAustralia Australian international in the 1960s
Ronnie Dawson IRFU flag.svg Irish international in the 1950s and 1960s, Lions captain
Mark Ella AustraliaAustralia Australian international in the 1980s
George Gregan AustraliaAustralia Australian international, 1999 world champion, player with the most international matches when he retired
Vladimir Ilyushin Soviet UnionSoviet Union Founder and first president of the Soviet Rugby Federation
Gavin Hastings ScotlandScotland Scottish international in the 1980s and 1990s
Alfred St. George Hamersley EnglandEngland England international and politician, took part in the first international match
Tom Lawton AustraliaAustralia Australian international in the 1920s and 1930s
Jack Matthews WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Welsh international in the 1940s and 1950s
Robert Seddon EnglandEngland English international in the 1880s
Waisale Serevi FijiFiji World champion in rugby 7 in 1997 and 2005
John Thornett AustraliaAustralia Australian international in the 1950s and 1960s
Bleddyn Williams WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Captain of the Welsh national team and Lions in the 1940s and 1950s

2014

Surname Nat. Career
Fred Allen New ZealandNew Zealand Captain and coach of the New Zealand national team
Nathalie Amiel FranceFrance French national player in the 1980s and 1990s
Bill Beaumont EnglandEngland England international in the 1970s and 1980s
Gill Burns EnglandEngland English national player in the 1980s and 1990s
Don Clarke New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand international in the 1950s and 1960s
Ieuan Evans WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Welsh international in the 1980s and 1990s
Don Fox New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand national player, world champion 1987
Sean Fitzpatrick New ZealandNew Zealand Captain of the New Zealand national team, world champion 1987
Jim Greenwood ScotlandScotland Scottish international in the 1950s
Carol Isherwood EnglandEngland English national player in the 1980s and 1990s
Patty Jervey United StatesUnited States US national player in the 1990s and 2000s, 1991 world champion
Michael Jones New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand national player, world champion 1987
Ian Kirkpatrick New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand international in the 1960s and 1970s
John Kirwan New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand national player in the 1980s and 1990s and coach
Jason Leonard EnglandEngland England international in the 1990s and 2000s, 2003 world champion
Michael Lynagh AustraliaAustralia Australian international, 1991 world champion
Jo Maso FranceFrance French international in the 1960s and 1970s
Terry McLean New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand sports journalist
Colin Meads New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand international in the 1950s and 1960s
Graham Mourie New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand national player in the 1970s and 1980s and coach
George Nepia New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand international in the 1920s and 1930s
Farah Palmer New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand national team captain, three-time world champion
Anna Richards New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand national player in the 1990s and 2000s, four-time world champion
Keith Rowlands WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Welsh international in the 1960s, CEO of the International Rugby Board
JPR Williams WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Welsh international in the 1960s and 1970s
Keith Wood IRFU flag.svg Irish international in the 1990s and 2000s

2015

Surname Nat. Career
Phil Bennett WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Welsh international in the 1960s and 1970s, captain of the British and Irish Lions in 1977, initiated the most famous attempt in rugby history
Naas Botha South AfricaSouth Africa South African international in the 1980s and 1990s
Gordon Brown ScotlandScotland Scottish international in the 1960s and 1970s, British and Irish Lions in 1971, 1974 and 1977
Marcel Communeau FranceFrance French international in the 1900s and 1910s
Gerald Davies WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Welsh international in the 1960s and 1970s and an official with both the British and Irish Lions and the Welsh Federation
Mervyn Davies WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Welsh international in the 1960s and 1970s
Morné du Plessis South AfricaSouth Africa Captain of the South African national team in the 1970s, manager of the 1995 world champions
Danie Gerber South AfricaSouth Africa South African international in the 1980s and 1990s
Tim Horan AustraliaAustralia Australian national player from 1989–2000, world champion 1991 and 1999
Andy Irvine ScotlandScotland Scottish international in the 1970s and 1980s, nine-time British and Irish Lion
Carwyn James WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Welsh national coach and player, led the British and Irish Lions to defeat New Zealand in 1971
Barry John WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Welsh international from the 1960s and 1970s, five-time British and Irish Lion, nicknamed “The King”
Tom Kiernan IrelandIreland Irish international in the 1960s and 1970s, captain of the British and Irish Lions in 1968
Basil Maclear IrelandIreland Irish international in the 1900s, died in Ypres in the Second Battle of Flanders
Nelson Mandela South AfricaSouth Africa President of South Africa, who during the World Cup in 1995 tried to unite the society divided by apartheid in support of the Springboks
Bill McLaren ScotlandScotland BBC Scottish Commentator, "The Voice of Rugby"
Edgar Mobbs EnglandEngland English international in the 1900s, died in the Third Battle of Flanders in Passchendaele
Hennie Muller South AfricaSouth Africa Captain of the South African national team in the 1940s and 1950s
Gwyn Nicholls WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Captain of the Welsh national team in the 1890s and 1900s, British and Irish Lion 1899
Ronald Poulton EnglandEngland English international in the 1900s and 1910s, died on the Western Front in World War I
Tom Richards AustraliaAustralia Australian international in the 1900s and 1910s
Jean-Pierre Rives FranceFrance French international in the 1970s and 1980s
Fergus Slattery IrelandIreland Captain of the Irish national team in the 1970s and 1980s, three-time British and Irish Lion
Joost van der Westhuizen South AfricaSouth Africa South African international in the 1990s and 2000s, 1995 world champion
Wavell Wakefield EnglandEngland English national player in the 1920s, functionary in the World and English Federation as well as the Harlequins
Johnnie Williams WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Welsh international in the 1900s and 1910s, died in the Battle of the Somme

2016

Surname Nat. Career
Maggie Alphonsi EnglandEngland English national player in the 2000s and 2010s, 2014 world champion
Danny Carroll AustraliaAustralia Australian and US national player from 1908–1920, Olympic champion in 1908 and 1920
Lawrence Dallaglio EnglandEngland England international in the 1990s and 2000s, World Champion 2003, British and Irish Lion 1997
John Dawes WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Captain and coach of the Welsh national team and the British and Irish Lions in the 1960s and 1970s
Arthur Gould WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Captain of the Welsh national team in the 1880s and 1890s
Jeremy Guscott EnglandEngland England international in the 1980s and 1990s, British and Irish Lion in 1993 and 1997
George Macpherson ScotlandScotland Scottish international in the 1920s and 1930s
Heather Moyse CanadaCanada Canadian national player in the 2000s and 2010s, 2010 and 2014 Olympic champion in the two-man bobsleigh
Brian O'Driscoll IrelandIreland Irish national player from 1999–2014, four tours with the British and Irish Lions, captain of the Irish national team, which won a Grand Slam at the Six Nations in 2009 after 61 years
Daisuke Ohata JapanJapan Japanese international in the 1990s and 2000s, holds the world record with 69 attempts
Shane Williams WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Welsh international in the 2000s and 2010s, World Player of the Year 2008, British and Irish Lions in 2005 and 2009
Jonny Wilkinson EnglandEngland English national player from 1998-2011, world champion and world player of the year 2003, British and Irish Lion 2001 and 2005

2017

Surname Nat. Career
Rob Andrew EnglandEngland English national player in the 1980s and 1990s, British and Irish Lion 1989 and 1993, official at the English Association
Al Charron CanadaCanada Canadian international from 1989–2003
Felipe Contepomi ArgentinaArgentina Argentine national player from 1998-2013
Phaidra Knight United StatesUnited States American national team player in the 2000s and 2010s
Fabien Pelous FranceFrance French national player in the 1990s and 2000s, captain 42 times

2018

Surname Nat. Career
Liza Burgess WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Welsh international in the 1990s and 2000s
Stephen Larkham AustraliaAustralia Australian international in the 1990s and 2000s, 1999 world champion
Ronan O'Gara IrelandIreland Irish international in the 2000s and 2010s, British and Irish Lions in 2001, 2005 and 2009
Pierre Villepreux FranceFrance French national player in the 1960s and 1970s, coach of the French national team in the 1990s, official at the World and French Federation
Bryan Williams New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand national player in the 1970s, official with the New Zealand Federation

2019

Surname Nat. Career
Os you edge South AfricaSouth Africa South African international in the 1990s and 2000s, world champion in 1995 and 2007
Peter Fatialofa SamoaSamoa Captain of the Samoan national team in the 1990s
Graham Henry New ZealandNew Zealand Coach of the New Zealand and Welsh national teams and the British and Irish Lions, 2011 World Champion
Shiggy Konno JapanJapan Japanese international in the 1940s, President of the Asian Rugby Football Union
Richie McCaw New ZealandNew Zealand Captain of the New Zealand national team in the 2000s and 2010s, world champions in 2011 and 2015, four Super Rugby titles with the Crusaders , three-time world player of the year, record national player at the end of his career
Diego Ormachea UruguayUruguay Uruguayan international in the 1980s and 1990s, coach of the national team in the 2000s

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