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Eiji Aonuma

1963 - Today

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Eiji Aonuma (Japanese: 青沼 英二, Hepburn: Aonuma Eiji, born March 16, 1963) is a Japanese video game designer, director, and producer at Nintendo. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eiji Aonuma has received more than 755,589 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Eiji Aonuma is the 28th most popular game designer (down from 25th in 2019), the 1,365th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,198th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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  • 760k

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  • 43.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Eiji Aonuma ranks 28 out of 56Before him are Steve Jackson, Will Wright, John Carmack, Hidetaka Miyazaki, John Romero, and Yu Suzuki. After him are Tetsuya Nomura, Dave Arneson, Yuji Horii, Yuji Naka, Hideki Kamiya, and Ron Gilbert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Eiji Aonuma ranks 352Before him are Thomas Brezina, Chris Mullin, Lisa Rinna, Lori Petty, Jonny Jakobsen, and Iurie Leancă. After him are Vladimir Solovyov, Pepe Mel, Abdullah Avcı, Jia Xiuquan, Graham Norton, and Blanca Portillo.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Eiji Aonuma ranks 1,365 out of 6,048Before him are Nobuko Jashima (1959), Kouta Hirano (1973), Toshio Hosokawa (1955), Kono Yasui (1880), Tooru Fujisawa (1967), and Nana Mizuki (1980). After him are Yukari Tamura (1978), Haruhisa Hasegawa (1957), Yasutaro Matsuki (1957), Hiroki Sakai (1990), Yuriko Shima (1959), and Ai Iijima (1972).

Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Eiji Aonuma ranks 14Before him are Shigesato Itoi (1948), Shinji Mikami (1965), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Masahiro Sakurai (1970), Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974), and Yu Suzuki (1958). After him are Tetsuya Nomura (1970), Yuji Horii (1954), Yuji Naka (1965), Hideki Kamiya (1970), Kazunori Yamauchi (1967), and Naoto Ohshima (1964).