• Top left: Angus Buchanan was the first international try-scorer (Scotland).
• Top right: Ian Smith (Scotland) held the try-record for the longest period of time (58 years, 89 days).
• Bottom left: David Campese (Australia) took Ian Smith's try-record of twenty-four and moved the record to sixty-four.
• Bottom right: Daisuke Ohata (Japan) holds the current record (69 tries).

This is a list of the leading try scorers in men's rugby union test matches. It includes players with a minimum of 30 test tries.

As of 24 November 2024.

International tries

No.	Player	Team(s)	Tries	Caps	Try ratio	Time	List	Ref.
1	Daisuke Ohata[a]	Japan	69	58	1.19	1996–2006	—	[1][2]
2	Bryan Habana	South Africa	67	124	0.54	2004–2016	List	[3]
3	David Campese	Australia	64	101	0.63	1982–1996	List	[4]
4	Shane Williams	Wales (58)  British and Irish Lions (2)	60	91	0.66	2000–2011	List	[5][6]
5	Hirotoki Onozawa	Japan	55	81	0.68	2001–2013	—	[7]
6	Rory Underwood	England (49)  British and Irish Lions (1)	50	91	0.55	1984–1996	—	[8]
7	Doug Howlett	New Zealand	49	62	0.79	2000–2007	—	[9]
	George North	Wales (47)  British and Irish Lions (2)		123	0.40	2010–2024	—	[10]
9	Brian O'Driscoll	Ireland (46)  British and Irish Lions (1)	47	141	0.33	1999–2014	List	[11][12]
10	Julian Savea	New Zealand	46	54	0.85	2012–2017	—	[13]
	Christian Cullen	New Zealand		58	0.79	1996–2002	List	[14]
	Joe Rokocoko	New Zealand		68	0.68	2003–2010	—	[15]
13	Beauden Barrett	New Zealand	45	134	0.34	2012–	—	[16]
14	Jeff Wilson	New Zealand	44	60	0.73	1993–2002	—	[17]
15	Akaki Tabutsadze	Georgia	41	45	0.91	2020-	—
	Gareth Thomas	Wales (40)  British and Irish Lions (1)		103	0.40	1995–2007	—	[18][19]
17	Chris Latham	Australia	40	78	0.51	1998–2007	—	[20]
18	Ben Smith	New Zealand	39	84	0.46	2009–2019	—	[21]
	Adam Ashley-Cooper	Australia		121	0.32	2005–2019	—	[22]
20	Will Jordan	New Zealand	38	41	0.93	2020-	—
	D.T.H. van der Merwe	Canada		61	0.62	2006–2019	—	[23]
	Joost van der Westhuizen	South Africa		89	0.43	1993–2003	—	[24]
	Serge Blanco	France		93	0.41	1980–1991	—	[25]
24	Jonah Lomu	New Zealand	37	63	0.59	1994–2002	List	[26]
	Israel Folau	Australia (37)  Tonga		75	0.49	2013–2023	List	[27]
	Rieko Ioane	New Zealand		81	0.46	2016–	—	[28]
27	Damian Penaud	France	36	53	0.68	2017-	—
	Tana Umaga	New Zealand		74	0.49	1997–2005	—	[29]
	Jonny May	England		78	0.46	2013–2023	—
	Keith Earls	Ireland		101	0.36	2008–2023	—
31	John Kirwan	New Zealand	35	63	0.56	1984–1994	—	[30]
32	Vincent Clerc	France	34	67	0.51	2002–2013	—	[31]
	Drew Mitchell	Australia		71	0.48	2005–2016	—	[32]
	Ieuan Evans	Wales (33)  British and Irish Lions (1)		79	0.43	1987–1998	—	[33]
	Mils Muliaina	New Zealand		100	0.34	2003–2011	—	[34]
36	Sitiveni Sivivatu	New Zealand (29) Pacific Islanders (4)	33	48	0.69	2005–2011	—	[35][36]
	Diego Ormaechea	Uruguay		54	0.61	1979–1999	—	[37]
	Cătălin Fercu	Romania		109	0.30	2005–2020	—
39	Makazole Mapimpi	South Africa	32	46	0.70	2018-	—
	Takashi Kikutani	Japan		68	0.47	2005–2014	—	[38]
	Philippe Saint-André	France		69	0.46	1990–1997	—	[39]
	Jaque Fourie	South Africa		72	0.44	2003–2014	—	[40]
43	Rodrigo Marta	Portugal	31	39	0.79	2016-	—
	César Sempere	Spain		56	0.55	2004–2014	—	[41]
	Ben Cohen	England		57	0.54	2000–2006	—	[42]
	Will Greenwood	England		57	0.54	1997–2004	—	[43][44]
	Jeremy Guscott	England (30)  British and Irish Lions (1)		73	0.42	1989–1999	—	[45]
	Ma'a Nonu	New Zealand		103	0.30	2003–2015	—	[46]
49	Duhan van der Merwe	Scotland (30)  British and Irish Lions (0)	30	48	0.63	2020-	—
	Jason Robinson	England (28)  British and Irish Lions (2)		56	0.54	2001-2007	—	[47]
	Lote Tuqiri	Australia		67	0.45	2003–2009	—	[48]
	Tommy Bowe	Ireland		74	0.41	2004–2017	—	[49]
	Tim Horan	Australia		80	0.38	1989–2000	—	[48][50]
	Joe Roff	Australia		86	0.35	1996–2004	—	[48]
	Matt Giteau	Australia		103	0.29	2002–2016	—	[51]
	Philippe Sella	France		111	0.27	1982–1995	—	[52]

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• List of leading rugby union test point scorers
• List of rugby union test caps leaders

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