1973 - Today
Hiromasa Yonebayashi (米林 宏昌, Yonebayashi Hiromasa, born July 10, 1973 in Nonoichi, Ishikawa, Japan), nicknamed Maro (麻呂), is a Japanese animator and director, formerly for Studio Ghibli. After his directorial debut with Studio Ghibli (The Secret World of Arrietty), he became the youngest director of a theatrical film produced by the studio. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hiromasa Yonebayashi has received more than 488,060 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Hiromasa Yonebayashi is the 1,253rd most popular film director (down from 1,135th in 2019), the 1,358th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,228th in 2019) and the 48th most popular Japanese Film Director.
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Among film directors, Hiromasa Yonebayashi ranks 1,253 out of 1,581. Before him are George Abbott, Lev Kulidzhanov, Leigh Whannell, Phil Alden Robinson, Yılmaz Erdoğan, and Steve Miner. After him are Lee Unkrich, Clifford Odets, Kirill Serebrennikov, Joe Roth, Tarsem Singh, and Julia Ducournau.
1887 - 1995
HPI: 43.39
Rank: 1,247
1924 - 2002
HPI: 43.38
Rank: 1,248
1977 - Present
HPI: 43.38
Rank: 1,249
1950 - Present
HPI: 43.37
Rank: 1,250
1967 - Present
HPI: 43.37
Rank: 1,251
1951 - Present
HPI: 43.37
Rank: 1,252
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.35
Rank: 1,253
1967 - Present
HPI: 43.35
Rank: 1,254
1906 - 1963
HPI: 43.33
Rank: 1,255
1969 - Present
HPI: 43.27
Rank: 1,256
1948 - Present
HPI: 43.26
Rank: 1,257
1961 - Present
HPI: 43.26
Rank: 1,258
1983 - Present
HPI: 43.23
Rank: 1,259
Among people born in 1973, Hiromasa Yonebayashi ranks 229. Before him are Rob Morgan, Omar Epps, Dave Chappelle, Nanako Matsushima, Dennis Gansel, and Katsuyuki Konishi. After him are James Foley, Jared Borgetti, Laura Codruța Kövesi, Kouta Hirano, Isabel dos Santos, and Jesse Marsch.
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.70
Rank: 223
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.65
Rank: 224
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.64
Rank: 225
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.57
Rank: 226
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.48
Rank: 227
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.42
Rank: 228
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.35
Rank: 229
1973 - 2014
HPI: 43.34
Rank: 230
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.33
Rank: 231
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.32
Rank: 232
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.27
Rank: 233
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.23
Rank: 234
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.20
Rank: 235
Among people born in Japan, Hiromasa Yonebayashi ranks 1,358 out of 6,048. Before him are Shinobu Ikeda (1962), Katsuyuki Konishi (1973), Moyoco Anno (1971), Yoshinobu Miyake (1939), Kenta Hasegawa (1965), and Noriko Hidaka (1962). After him are Nobuko Jashima (1959), Kouta Hirano (1973), Toshio Hosokawa (1955), Kono Yasui (1880), Tooru Fujisawa (1967), and Nana Mizuki (1980).
1962 - Present
HPI: 43.42
Rank: 1,352
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.42
Rank: 1,353
1971 - Present
HPI: 43.38
Rank: 1,354
1939 - Present
HPI: 43.37
Rank: 1,355
1965 - Present
HPI: 43.36
Rank: 1,356
1962 - Present
HPI: 43.36
Rank: 1,357
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.35
Rank: 1,358
1959 - Present
HPI: 43.34
Rank: 1,359
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.27
Rank: 1,360
1955 - Present
HPI: 43.26
Rank: 1,361
1880 - 1971
HPI: 43.26
Rank: 1,362
1967 - Present
HPI: 43.25
Rank: 1,363
1980 - Present
HPI: 43.25
Rank: 1,364
Among film directors born in Japan, Hiromasa Yonebayashi ranks 48. Before him are Shinya Tsukamoto (1960), Hideo Nakata (1961), Ryusuke Hamaguchi (1978), Noriyuki Abe (1961), Naomi Kawase (1969), and Yōjirō Takita (1955). After him are Takashi Shimizu (1972), Yasuhiro Takemoto (1972), Tatsuya Ishihara (1966), Byron Howard (1968), and Naoko Yamada (1984).
1960 - Present
HPI: 46.16
Rank: 42
1961 - Present
HPI: 45.65
Rank: 43
1978 - Present
HPI: 44.65
Rank: 44
1961 - Present
HPI: 44.18
Rank: 45
1969 - Present
HPI: 43.89
Rank: 46
1955 - Present
HPI: 43.83
Rank: 47
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.35
Rank: 48
1972 - Present
HPI: 42.34
Rank: 49
1972 - 2019
HPI: 40.57
Rank: 50
1966 - Present
HPI: 39.87
Rank: 51
1968 - Present
HPI: 39.30
Rank: 52
1984 - Present
HPI: 36.78
Rank: 53