Jimmy Cowan

Jimmy Cowan represents the kind of rugby story I find genuinely stirring. A scrum-half from Gore who pulled on the All Blacks jersey from the 2004 tour through the 2011 World Cup, the tournament New Zealand finally won on home soil. Wearing that black jersey and performing the haka is its own pressure, and being the man who organises play behind the most feared team in the sport is a thankless, vital role. The arc from Gore High School to the world's elite is exactly the grafter's journey I am drawn to. I see him as a proud, hard-earned Kiwi warrior.

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Name (English)

Jimmy Cowan

Name (Japanese)

ジミー・カーワン

Reading

じみー・かーわん

Born

March 6, 1982 (age 44)

Origin

Gore, New Zealand

Height

185 cm

Occupation

rugby union player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dog

High school

Gore High School

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%20Cowan
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AF%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q194026

Tags

• rugby union player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.