1941 - Today
Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎 駿 or 宮﨑 駿, Miyazaki Hayao, Japanese: [mijaꜜzaki hajao]; born January 5, 1941) is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, and manga artist. A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, he has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and creator of Japanese animated feature films, and is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished filmmakers in the history of animation. Born in Tokyo City in the Empire of Japan, Miyazaki expressed interest in manga and animation from an early age, and he joined Toei Animation in 1963. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hayao Miyazaki has received more than 15,380,765 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 85 in 2019). Hayao Miyazaki is the 8th most popular film director (down from 5th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Japan (down from 3rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Film Director.
Hayao Miyazaki is most famous for being a Japanese animator and film director. He is most famous for his films Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and My Neighbor Totoro.
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Among film directors, Hayao Miyazaki ranks 8 out of 1,581. Before him are Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick, and Ingmar Bergman. After him are Woody Allen, Ridley Scott, Sergei Eisenstein, Roman Polanski, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Luchino Visconti.
1899 - 1980
HPI: 82.72
Rank: 2
1942 - Present
HPI: 81.56
Rank: 3
1910 - 1998
HPI: 79.32
Rank: 4
1920 - 1993
HPI: 79.23
Rank: 5
1928 - 1999
HPI: 79.07
Rank: 6
1918 - 2007
HPI: 78.99
Rank: 7
1941 - Present
HPI: 78.57
Rank: 8
1935 - Present
HPI: 76.92
Rank: 9
1937 - Present
HPI: 76.48
Rank: 10
1898 - 1948
HPI: 76.11
Rank: 11
1933 - Present
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 12
1922 - 1975
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 13
1906 - 1976
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 14
Among people born in 1941, Hayao Miyazaki ranks 2. Before him is Kim Jong-il. After him are Slobodan Milošević, Alex Ferguson, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Bernardo Bertolucci, Sergio Mattarella, Charlie Watts, Richard Dawkins, Cesária Évora, and Krzysztof Kieślowski.
1941 - 2011
HPI: 79.58
Rank: 1
1941 - Present
HPI: 78.57
Rank: 2
1941 - 2006
HPI: 77.79
Rank: 3
1941 - Present
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 4
1941 - Present
HPI: 76.86
Rank: 5
1941 - Present
HPI: 76.05
Rank: 6
1941 - 2018
HPI: 73.21
Rank: 7
1941 - Present
HPI: 72.94
Rank: 8
1941 - 2021
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 9
1941 - Present
HPI: 72.19
Rank: 10
1941 - 2011
HPI: 72.11
Rank: 11
1941 - 1996
HPI: 71.93
Rank: 12
Among people born in Japan, Hayao Miyazaki ranks 5 out of 6,048. Before him are Hirohito (1901), Hokusai (1760), Akihito (1933), and Akira Kurosawa (1910). After him are Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Oda Nobunaga (1534), Emperor Meiji (1852), Kanō Jigorō (1860), Yukio Mishima (1925), Matsuo Bashō (1644), and Haruki Murakami (1949).
1901 - 1989
HPI: 82.41
Rank: 1
1760 - 1849
HPI: 80.12
Rank: 2
1933 - Present
HPI: 79.44
Rank: 3
1910 - 1998
HPI: 79.32
Rank: 4
1941 - Present
HPI: 78.57
Rank: 5
1584 - 1645
HPI: 77.73
Rank: 6
1534 - 1582
HPI: 77.36
Rank: 7
1852 - 1912
HPI: 77.12
Rank: 8
1860 - 1938
HPI: 76.68
Rank: 9
1925 - 1970
HPI: 75.78
Rank: 10
1644 - 1694
HPI: 75.69
Rank: 11
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 12
Among film directors born in Japan, Hayao Miyazaki ranks 2. Before him are Akira Kurosawa (1910). After him are Takeshi Kitano (1947), Isao Takahata (1935), Yasujirō Ozu (1903), Kenji Mizoguchi (1898), Nagisa Oshima (1932), Masaki Kobayashi (1916), Shohei Imamura (1926), Hideaki Anno (1960), Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), and Ishirō Honda (1911).
1910 - 1998
HPI: 79.32
Rank: 1
1941 - Present
HPI: 78.57
Rank: 2
1947 - Present
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 3
1935 - 2018
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 4
1903 - 1963
HPI: 67.32
Rank: 5
1898 - 1956
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 6
1932 - 2013
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 7
1916 - 1996
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 8
1926 - 2006
HPI: 60.74
Rank: 9
1960 - Present
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 10
1920 - 1989
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 11
1911 - 1993
HPI: 57.24
Rank: 12