Ron Graham (rugby union)

{{Short description|Australian rugby union player}}

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| full_name = Ronald Graham

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| birth_place = Sydney, Australia

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| position = Prop

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Ronald Graham AM (born 21 December 1946) is an Australian former rugby union player and administrator.{{cite web |title=Graham appointed ARU Chairman |url=https://www.espn.com.au/rugby/story/_/id/15382460/graham-appointed-aru-chairman |website=ESPN.com |language=en |date=9 December 2005}}

Graham was born and raised in Sydney, attending Kingsgrove North High School.{{cite web |title=Ronald Graham |url=https://classicwallabies.com.au/players/ronald-graham |website=classicwallabies.com.au |language=en}}

A product of Bexley Kingsgrove juniors, Graham was a prop and played first-grade for St. George. He broke into the Wallabies team in 1973 after the retirement of Roy Prosser and gained a total of 18 Test caps. His international career included the 1975–76 tour of Britain, where he had the distinction of captaining the Wallabies in a tour match.

Graham served as the chairman of Australian Rugby Union from 2005 to 2007. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours list, for services to rugby union as an administrator.{{cite news |last1=Robinson |first1=Georgina |title=Queen's birthday honours: Ron Graham AM |url=https://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/3128224/queens-birthday-honours-ron-graham-am/ |work=Illawarra Mercury |date=5 June 2015 |language=en-AU}}

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