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Paul Alo-Emile

Samoan rugby union player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ7149042 ↗
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Paul Alo-Emile (born 22 December 1991) is a professional rugby union player who plays as a prop for Top 14 club Stade Français. Born in New Zealand, he represents Samoa at international level after qualifying on ancestry grounds.

Early life

Alo-Emile is of Samoan heritage, born in Auckland before moving to Brisbane at the age of four. He is the second child of eight siblings, with four sisters and three brothers. He attended Brisbane State High School, joining the Australian Rugby Union's National Talent Squad in 2006, representing the Australian Schoolboys. In 2009 was a member of the Queensland side that won the Australian Schools Rugby title. Alo-Emile also represented the state of Queensland in Gridiron (American football).

He played for Sunnybank in the Queensland Premier Rugby competition.

In 2010, Alo-Emile joined the Australian under 20s. At the 2011 IRB Junior World Championship, he played against England, France, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa, and Tonga.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Paul Alo-Emile” as samoan rugby union player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 2006, 2009, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991-12-22. The account is most persuasive where Paul, Alo-Emile and Samoan can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as samoan rugby union player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7149042. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991, 2006, 2009 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Paul Alo-Emile” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.