1955 - Today
Akira Toriyama (Japanese: 鳥山明, Hepburn: Toriyama Akira, April 5, 1955 – March 1, 2024) was a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He first achieved mainstream recognition for creating the popular manga series Dr. Slump, before going on to create Dragon Ball (his most famous work) and acting as a character designer for several popular video games such as the Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger, and Blue Dragon. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Akira Toriyama has received more than 4,813,591 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Akira Toriyama is the 9th most popular comic artist (down from 8th in 2019), the 85th most popular biography from Japan (down from 79th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Comic Artist.
Akira Toriyama is most famous for his manga series, Dragon Ball.
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Among comic artists, Akira Toriyama ranks 9 out of 174. Before him are Osamu Tezuka, René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo, Joseph Barbera, Jean Giraud, and Carl Barks. After him are Peyo, Hugo Pratt, Matt Groening, Zdeněk Miler, Jack Kirby, and Bob Kane.
1928 - 1989
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 3
1926 - 1977
HPI: 68.68
Rank: 4
1927 - 2020
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 5
1911 - 2006
HPI: 65.88
Rank: 6
1938 - 2012
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 7
1901 - 2000
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 8
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 9
1928 - 1992
HPI: 63.14
Rank: 10
1927 - 1995
HPI: 62.55
Rank: 11
1954 - Present
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 12
1921 - 2011
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 13
1917 - 1994
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 14
1915 - 1998
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 15
Among people born in 1955, Akira Toriyama ranks 24. Before him are Li Keqiang, Ludovico Einaudi, Mo Yan, Nina Hagen, Donatella Versace, and Guillermo Lasso. After him are Chow Yun-fat, Liu Xiaobo, Marcelo Bielsa, Kris Jenner, Billy Bob Thornton, and Dodi Fayed.
1955 - 2023
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 18
1955 - Present
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 19
1955 - Present
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 20
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 21
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 22
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 23
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 24
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.18
Rank: 25
1955 - 2017
HPI: 63.99
Rank: 26
1955 - Present
HPI: 63.64
Rank: 27
1955 - Present
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 28
1955 - Present
HPI: 62.83
Rank: 29
1955 - 1997
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 30
Among people born in Japan, Akira Toriyama ranks 85 out of 6,048. Before him are Nichiren (1222), Emperor Nakamikado (1702), Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916), Tomoe Gozen (1157), Emperor Annei (-577), and Dōgen (1200). After him are Empress Go-Sakuramachi (1740), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Hasekura Tsunenaga (1571), Benkei (1155), Chiune Sugihara (1900), and Emperor Itoku (-553).
1222 - 1282
HPI: 64.96
Rank: 79
1702 - 1737
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 80
1916 - 2010
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 81
1157 - 1247
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 82
577 BC - 510 BC
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 83
1200 - 1253
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 84
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 85
1740 - 1813
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 86
1931 - Present
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 87
1571 - 1622
HPI: 64.30
Rank: 88
1155 - 1189
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 89
1900 - 1986
HPI: 64.22
Rank: 90
553 BC - 477 BC
HPI: 64.22
Rank: 91
Among comic artists born in Japan, Akira Toriyama ranks 2. Before him are Osamu Tezuka (1928). After him are Tsugumi Ohba (1950), Rumiko Takahashi (1957), Go Nagai (1945), Leiji Matsumoto (1938), Hirohiko Araki (1960), Masashi Kishimoto (1974), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), Eiichiro Oda (1975), Kentaro Miura (1966), and Yoshihiro Togashi (1966).
1928 - 1989
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 1
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 2
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 3
1957 - Present
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 4
1945 - Present
HPI: 59.87
Rank: 5
1938 - 2023
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 6
1960 - Present
HPI: 57.83
Rank: 7
1974 - Present
HPI: 57.62
Rank: 8
1954 - Present
HPI: 57.20
Rank: 9
1975 - Present
HPI: 57.04
Rank: 10
1966 - 2021
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 11
1966 - Present
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 12