Warren Gatland

Warren Gatland is a coach's coach, and I respect that breed enormously. A Hamilton-born hooker who logged a record 140 games for Waikato, he turned a hard-nosed playing career into one of the most decorated coaching résumés in rugby, steering Wales and earning an OBE and later a CBE. What I value here is the through-line: the discipline that made him a one-club workhorse is the same thing that makes great coaches. At 188 centimetres he had the frame, but it's the temperament I notice. I read him as proof that the best leaders in sport usually come up through the trenches first.

Name (English)

Warren Gatland

Name (Japanese)

ウォーレン・ガットランド

Reading

うぉーれん・がっとらんど

Born

September 17, 1963 (age 62)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rabbit

Origin

Hamilton, New Zealand

Height

188 cm

Occupation

rugby union player / rugby union coach

University

University of Waikato

Awards & achievements

• Officer of the Order of the British Empire
• 2020 Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89

Tags

• rugby union player
• rugby union coach

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.