Colin Meads
Sign in to saveAlso known as Colin Earl Meads, Sir Colin Meads, Pinetree Meads, Pinetree, Sir Colin Earl Meads
New Zealand rugby union player (1936-2017)
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Within Vinony's link graph, Colin Meads is referenced by 129 other articles, and connects out to Order of the British Empire, New Zealand national rugby union team and The New Zealand Herald.
Vinony files it under 1936 births, 2017 deaths and 20th-century New Zealand farmers.
Its subject is documented across 14 Wikipedia language editions.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- New Zealand
- Place of birth
- Cambridge
- Place of death
- Te Kūiti
- Occupation
- farmer
- Field of work
- rugby union
- Sport
- rugby union
- Position played
- flanker
- Mass
- 102
- Image
- Sir Colin Meads 2015.jpg
- Height
- 192
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- date of birth
- 1936-06-03
- date of death
- 2017-08-20
- Commons category
- Colin Meads
- cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- nickname
- Pinetree
- start of work period
- 1955-00-00
- end of work period
- 1973-00-00
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Order of the British Empire
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New Zealand national rugby union team
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New Zealand Order of Merit
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1936 births2017 deaths20th-century New Zealand farmers20th-century New Zealand sportsmenDeaths from pancreatic cancer in New ZealandKing Country rugby union playersKnights Companion of the New Zealand Order of MeritNew Zealand international rugby union playersNew Zealand Members of the Order of the British EmpireNew Zealand rugby union playersPeople educated at Te Kuiti High SchoolRugby football people awarded knighthoodsRugby union flankersRugby union locksRugby union number eightsRugby union players from WaikatoSportspeople from Cambridge, New ZealandSportspeople from Te KūitiUse New Zealand English from June 2014World Rugby Hall of Fame inductees