GAME DESIGNER

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 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Eiji Aonuma is the 27th most popular game designer (up from 28th in 2019), the 1,292nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,362nd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 760k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Eiji Aonumas by language

Over the past year Eiji Aonuma has had the most page views in the with 163,241 views, followed by Japanese (50,686), and Chinese (18,265). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (88.03%), Norwegian (Nynorsk) (87.66%), and Asturian (83.45%)

Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Eiji Aonuma ranks 27 out of 77. Before him are Peter Molyneux, Reiner Knizia, Dave Arneson, Yu Suzuki, Kazunori Yamauchi, and Carol Shaw. After him are Will Wright, Scott Cawthon, Masahiro Sakurai, John Carmack, Hideki Kamiya, and John Romero.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Eiji Aonuma ranks 276. Before him are Julie Payette, Alberigo Evani, David Baszucki, Jaime de Marichalar, Mohamed Ould Bilal, and Dizzy Reed. After him are Hitoshi Matsumoto, Phoebe Cates, Anica Dobra, Brenda Bakke, Antoine Kombouaré, and Katja Riemann.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Eiji Aonuma ranks 1,292 out of 6,245. Before him are Junko Takeuchi (1972), Nobuko Kondo (1956), Bunzō Hayata (1874), Masahiro Hasemi (1945), Keiji Fujiwara (1964), and Kusuo Kitamura (1917). After him are Yoshiaki Arata (1924), Mikio Aoki (1934), Takehide Nakatani (1941), Hitoshi Matsumoto (1963), Mamoru Mohri (1948), and Masaru Uchiyama (1957).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Eiji Aonuma ranks 14. Before him are Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Toru Iwatani (1955), Masayuki Uemura (1943), Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974), Yu Suzuki (1958), and Kazunori Yamauchi (1967). After him are Masahiro Sakurai (1970), Hideki Kamiya (1970), Yuji Naka (1965), Tetsuya Nomura (1970), Yuji Horii (1954), and Yoshinori Kitase (1966).

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