Jamal Idris

Jamal Idris is a retired player most recently playing for Wests Tigers.

Jamal Dasuki Idris (born 6 July 1990) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Penrith Panthers of the National Rugby League. An Australia national and New South Wales State of Origin representative centre, he previously played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, and has also played for the Indigenous Australian representative side.

The son of an Aboriginal mother and a Nigerian father, Idris spent two years growing up in an Aboriginal mission in Forster on the New South Wales Mid North Coast with his younger brother, Isaac, and mother, Alana. The family moved to Sydney, where Idris now lives, because of Jamal's interest in athletics, especially javelin throwing . Following several representative seasons in athletics, Idris took up rugby league in high school. His junior clubs were Chester Hill Hornets, Merrylands Rams, Fairfield Patrician Brothers, Bankstown Sports, Guildford Raiders, Berala Bears and Forster Tuncurry Hawkes.

Due to his physical size (199 cm height, 115 kg weight), his looks and his dreadlocked hairstyle, Idris has been confused for Lote Tuqiri by even his own family.