Bryan Williams is one of the most popular and richest Rugby Union Player who was born on October 3, 1950 in Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. After he retired from rugby, he coached a number of club sides in New Zealand. During the 1990s onwards, he has been the national rugby coach for Samoa. He is married and has two sons Gavin and Paul, who also play rugby union: Gavin plays internationally for Samoa and plays club for French side US Dax; and his other son Paul played for the Auckland Super Rugby side the Blues before playing for Sale in the English Premiership and debuting for Samoa in 2010. Williams now coaches at the Ponsonby Rugby Club and the Mt Albert Grammar School Rugby Academy.
In the 1983 Queen’s Birthday Honours, Williams was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to rugby. In the 2013 Queen’s Birthday Honours, Williams was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, also for services to rugby. He was promoted to Knight Companion of the same order in the 2018 New Year Honours, for services to rugby. In August of that year, he was announced as a member of the 2018 induction class of the World Rugby Hall of Fame, officially being inducted at the Hall of Fame’s physical location in Rugby on 12 September.
Williams’ international rugby career lasted from 1970 to 1978 in which he played 113 matches (including 38 international Tests) and scored 66 tries in all matches as an All Black (ten tries in Tests), which was a record until beaten by John Kirwan.
Williams was appointed President of the NZRU in 2011.
