1941 - 1997
Gunpei Yokoi (横井 軍平, Yokoi Gunpei, 10 September 1941 – 4 October 1997), sometimes transliterated Gumpei Yokoi, was a Japanese video game designer. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gunpei Yokoi has received more than 512,594 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Gunpei Yokoi is the 6th most popular game designer (down from 3rd in 2019), the 538th most popular biography from Japan (down from 494th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Game Designer.
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Among game designers, Gunpei Yokoi ranks 6 out of 46. Before him are Shigeru Miyamoto, Ralph H. Baer, Hideo Kojima, Gabe Newell, and Markus Persson. After him are Jeff Kinney, Alexey Pajitnov, Satoru Iwata, Sid Meier, Satoshi Tajiri, and Steve Jackson.
1952 - Present
HPI: 70.17
Rank: 1
1922 - 2014
HPI: 68.90
Rank: 2
1963 - Present
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 3
1962 - Present
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 4
1979 - Present
HPI: 67.07
Rank: 5
1941 - 1997
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 6
1971 - Present
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 7
1956 - Present
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 8
1959 - 2015
HPI: 65.42
Rank: 9
1954 - Present
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 10
1965 - Present
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 11
1953 - Present
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1941, Gunpei Yokoi ranks 131. Before him are Infante Alfonso of Spain, Adrian Lyne, Chubby Checker, Otto Sander, Mircea Snegur, and George Lakoff. After him are Goh Chok Tong, Ahmed Shafik, Akiko Wakabayashi, Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, Mario Corso, and Sergei Dovlatov. Among people deceased in 1997, Gunpei Yokoi ranks 83. Before him are Bo Widerberg, François Furet, Ernst Wilimowski, Stig Anderson, Giuseppe De Santis, and Walter Gotell. After him are Samuel Fuller, Michael Hutchence, Edward Mulhare, Andrew Cunanan, Héctor Yazalde, and Allan Edwall.
1941 - 1956
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 125
1941 - Present
HPI: 66.37
Rank: 126
1941 - Present
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 127
1941 - 2013
HPI: 66.30
Rank: 128
1941 - Present
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 129
1941 - Present
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 130
1941 - 1997
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 131
1941 - Present
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 132
1941 - Present
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 133
1941 - Present
HPI: 66.00
Rank: 134
1941 - Present
HPI: 65.96
Rank: 135
1941 - 2020
HPI: 65.96
Rank: 136
1941 - 1990
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 137
1930 - 1997
HPI: 66.78
Rank: 77
1927 - 1997
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 78
1916 - 1997
HPI: 66.69
Rank: 79
1931 - 1997
HPI: 66.58
Rank: 80
1917 - 1997
HPI: 66.56
Rank: 81
1924 - 1997
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 82
1941 - 1997
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 83
1912 - 1997
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 84
1960 - 1997
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 85
1923 - 1997
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 86
1969 - 1997
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 87
1946 - 1997
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 88
1924 - 1997
HPI: 65.30
Rank: 89
Among people born in Japan, Gunpei Yokoi ranks 538 out of 5,560. Before him are Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu (1902), Seiichi Itō (1890), Tokugawa Ietsugu (1709), Takao Nishiyama (1942), Toshio Suzuki (1948), and Hayato Ikeda (1899). After him are Saichō (767), Tadao Takayama (1904), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Toshiki Kaifu (1931), Tsuyoshi Kunieda (1944), and Yasuji Okamura (1884).
1902 - 1953
HPI: 66.26
Rank: 532
1890 - 1945
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 533
1709 - 1716
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 534
1942 - Present
HPI: 66.24
Rank: 535
1948 - Present
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 536
1899 - 1965
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 537
1941 - 1997
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 538
767 - 822
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 539
1904 - 1980
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 540
1954 - Present
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 541
1931 - Present
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 542
1944 - Present
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 543
1884 - 1966
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 544
Among game designers born in Japan, Gunpei Yokoi ranks 3. Before him are Shigeru Miyamoto (1952) and Hideo Kojima (1963). After him are Satoru Iwata (1959), Satoshi Tajiri (1965), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Toru Iwatani (1955), Shinji Mikami (1965), Tetsuya Nomura (1970), Yu Suzuki (1958), Masahiro Sakurai (1970), and Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974).
1952 - Present
HPI: 70.17
Rank: 1
1963 - Present
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 2
1941 - 1997
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 3
1959 - 2015
HPI: 65.42
Rank: 4
1965 - Present
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 5
1962 - Present
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 6
1955 - Present
HPI: 61.15
Rank: 7
1965 - Present
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 8
1970 - Present
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 9
1958 - Present
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 10
1970 - Present
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 11
1974 - Present
HPI: 56.80
Rank: 12