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Born on August 26, 1980, Ray Barkwill is from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Ray Barkwill is a rugby union player. That works out to 46 years old in 2026.
My Take
Barkwill is the kind of athlete I find quietly inspiring. He never coasted on early hype; he grafted across teams and capped his career by winning Major League Rugby's inaugural title with the Seattle Seawolves, even scoring in the final. That is the storybook ending a journeyman earns rather than is handed. What strikes me most, though, is his status as the first Canadian to play Super Rugby. Pioneers absorb all the friction so the next generation can simply belong. A hooker from Niagara Falls dragging Canadian rugby onto a bigger stage deserves far more recognition than he tends to get.
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- Name (English)
- Ray Barkwill
- Name (Japanese)
- レイ・バークウィル
- Reading
- れい・ばーくうぃる
- Born
- August 26, 1980 (age 46)
- Origin
- Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
- Occupation
- rugby union player
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Monkey
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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.
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Ray Barkwill was born on August 26, 1980 and is 46 years old.
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Ray Barkwill is from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
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