Famous rugby union players

Beauden Barrett

Beauden John Barrett is a New Zealand rugby union player who plays as first five-eighth or fullback for the All Blacks, Blues and (formerly) Hurricanes in Super Rugby, and Taranaki in the Bunnings NPC.

Sam Costelow

Sam Costelow is a Welsh professional rugby union player who plays as a fly-half for United Rugby Championship club Scarlets and the Wales national team.

Steve Tandy

Steve Tandy is a Welsh rugby union coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the Welsh national team, having previously coached the Ospreys and Scotland.

Ellie Kildunne

Ellie Tea Kildunne is an English rugby player. She is a member of the Red Roses and Bristol Bears of Premiership Women's Rugby at the club level, while also playing sevens in the past. Kildunne was the recipient of the World Rugby Women's 15s Player of the Year at the 2024 World Rugby Awards. She was a 2025 World Cup winner, scoring the opening try in the final for England, and was voted runner-up for the 2025 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award.

Louis Rees-Zammit

Louis Rees-Zammit is a Welsh professional rugby union player for Prem Rugby side Bristol Bears and former American football wide receiver. His main position is winger.

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Matt Burke (rugby union, born 1973)

Matthew Coleman Burke is an Australian former international rugby union player who is currently a rugby commentator for Stan Sport and Channel Nine.

Finn Russell

Finn Alastair Russell is a Scottish professional rugby union player who plays as a fly-half for Premiership Rugby club Bath and often captains the Scotland national team.

Tim Visser

Tim Visser is a Dutch rugby union player, who played as a winger for the Scotland national team and for English club Harlequins.

Kurtley Beale

Kurtley James Beale is an Australian professional rugby union representative player who has made over 90 national representative appearances in a ten-year playing career at the world-class level. He is of Aboriginal descent, has had a long Super Rugby career with the New South Wales Waratahs and has played for the Melbourne Rebels and the Wasps club in England. Beale usually plays at full-back or centre but can play fly-half or winger. In 2011 Beale received the John Eales Medal, awarded to A...

Antoine Dupont

France international rugby union player (born 1996)

Harry Wilson (rugby union, born 1999)

Harrison Wilson is an Australian professional rugby union player who plays as a number eight for Super Rugby club Queensland Reds and is the current captain of the Australia national team.

Michael Cheika

Michael Cheika is an Australian professional rugby league and rugby union coach, and former rugby union player. He is currently an assistant coach of the Sydney Roosters of the National Rugby League (NRL) and head coach of Lebanon.

Steve Borthwick

Stephen William Borthwick is an English rugby union coach and former player, who is currently the head coach of the England national team. As a player, he played as a lock for Bath and Saracens. At international level, he played for England 57 times from his debut in 2001; he served as captain from 2008, until he was dropped from the side in 2010.

Duhan van der Merwe

Duhan van der Merwe is a professional rugby union player who plays as a wing for Edinburgh in the United Rugby Championship (URC) and the Scotland national team. Born in South Africa, he represents Scotland having qualified on residency grounds.

Fin Smith

Finlay Smith is an English professional rugby union player who plays as a fly-half for Premiership Rugby club Northampton Saints and the England national team.

Shane Williams

Shane Mark Williams, is a Welsh former rugby union player most famous for his long and successful tenure as a wing for the Ospreys and the Wales national team. He also played scrum-half on occasion. Williams is the record try scorer for Wales, and fourth on the international list of leading rugby union test try scorers behind Daisuke Ohata, Bryan Habana and David Campese.

Keri Jones

William Keri Jones is a Welsh dual-code international rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for Wales, and at club level for Cardiff RFC, as a Wing and representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain, and at club level for Wigan, as a wing. He was also an accomplished track and field athlete having represented Wales at the 1966 Jamaica Commonwealth Games.

Louis Bielle-Biarrey

France international rugby union player

Cam Roigard

Cameron Roigard is a New Zealand rugby union player who plays as a halfback for the Hurricanes in Super Rugby, Counties Manukau in the National Provincial Championship, and the All Blacks in international rugby union.

Leroy Carter (rugby union)

Leroy Bert Carter is a New Zealand professional rugby union player who plays as a winger for Bay of Plenty, the Chiefs, and the All Blacks.

Phil Vickery (rugby union)

Philip John Vickery MBE DL is an English former rugby union player. A tighthead prop he won 73 international caps for England squad and was a member of England's World Cup winning squad in 2003, playing in all seven matches in the tournament.

Kitione Salawa (rugby union, born 2001)

Kitione Salawa Jr. is a Fijian rugby union player, currently playing for the Drua. His preferred position is lock.

Iain Balshaw

Iain Robert Balshaw, MBE is an English former rugby union player who played on the wing or at full back for Bath, Leeds Carnegie, Gloucester and Biarritz Olympique. He won 35 international caps for England between 2000 and 2008, and three for the British & Irish Lions in 2001. He was a member of the England squad that won the 2003 Rugby World Cup.

Henry Pollock (rugby union)

Henry Joseph Pollock is an English professional rugby union and cricket player who plays as a flanker for Northampton Saints and the England national team. He currently holds the record for being the youngest tryscorer of any English player in Six Nations history.