Comic Artist

Akira Toriyama

Japanese manga artist and video game character designer, known for his work Dragon Ball

1955 - 2024

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His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2024). Akira Toriyama is the 5th most popular comic artist, the 47th most popular biography from Japan (up from 70th 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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#5

Akira Toriyama ranks #5 of 226 Comic Artists worldwide — among the top 3% of the profession.

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Akira Toriyama's biography appears in 66 language editions of Wikipedia — more than 99% of all Comic Artists.

Apr 5

Akira Toriyama shares a April 5 birthday with Thomas Hobbes, Pope Urban VIII, and Joseph Lister.

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Akira Toriyama's biography was added to 11 new Wikipedia language editions in the past year.

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Among Comic Artists

Among comic artists, Akira Toriyama ranks 5 out of 226. Before him are Stan Lee, Hergé, René Goscinny, and Osamu Tezuka. After him are Charles M. Schulz, Albert Uderzo, Morris, Frank Miller, Joseph Barbera, Carl Barks, and Hugo Pratt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Akira Toriyama ranks 18. Before him are Bill Paxton, Jair Bolsonaro, Tim Berners-Lee, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, and Ornella Muti. After him are Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Willem Dafoe, Mo Yan, Ludovico Einaudi, Isabelle Adjani, and Jigme Singye Wangchuck. Among people deceased in 2024, Akira Toriyama ranks 22. Before him are Daniel Kahneman, Princess Birgitta of Sweden, Anouk Aimée, Arno Allan Penzias, Ram Narayan, and Hassan Nasrallah. After him are Françoise Hardy, Louis Gossett Jr., Arnold Rüütel, Johan Neeskens, Sven-Göran Eriksson, and Paul Alexander.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Akira Toriyama ranks 47 out of 6,245. Before him are Gichin Funakoshi (1868), Sasaki Kojirō (1583), Osamu Tezuka (1928), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147), and Morihei Ueshiba (1883). After him are Sanae Takaichi (1961), Sakamoto Ryōma (1836), Takeshi Kitano (1947), Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159), Takeda Shingen (1521), and Yasujirō Ozu (1903).

Among Comic Artists In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Akira Toriyama ranks 2. Before him is Osamu Tezuka (1928). After him are Rumiko Takahashi (1957), Tsugumi Ohba (1950), Go Nagai (1945), Leiji Matsumoto (1938), Kentaro Miura (1966), Eiichiro Oda (1975), Naoki Urasawa (1960), Hirohiko Araki (1960), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), and Shotaro Ishinomori (1938).

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