1962 - Today
Hironobu Sakaguchi (坂口 博信, Sakaguchi Hironobu) (born November 25, 1962) is a Japanese video game designer, director, producer, writer, and film director. He is best known as creator of the Final Fantasy series, having conceived the original concept for the first title Final Fantasy and also having directed several later entries in the franchise, and has had a long career in gaming with over 100 million units of video games sold worldwide. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hironobu Sakaguchi has received more than 703,533 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Hironobu Sakaguchi is the 13th most popular game designer (down from 11th in 2019), the 925th most popular biography from Japan (down from 842nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Game Designer.
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Among game designers, Hironobu Sakaguchi ranks 13 out of 46. Before him are Jeff Kinney, Alexey Pajitnov, Satoru Iwata, Sid Meier, Satoshi Tajiri, and Steve Jackson. After him are Toru Iwatani, Shinji Mikami, Lizzie Magie, Gary Gygax, Klaus Teuber, and Will Wright.
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
1962 - Present
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 13
1955 - Present
HPI: 61.15
Rank: 14
1965 - Present
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 15
1866 - 1948
HPI: 60.05
Rank: 16
1938 - 2008
HPI: 59.83
Rank: 17
1952 - Present
HPI: 59.72
Rank: 18
1960 - Present
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 19
Among people born in 1962, Hironobu Sakaguchi ranks 120. Before him are MC Hammer, Denis O'Hare, Baz Luhrmann, Sakis Rouvas, Wynton Rufer, and Carl Cox. After him are Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, Oscar Ruggeri, Victoria Ruffo, Choi Min-sik, and Ferran Adrià.
1962 - Present
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 114
1962 - Present
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 115
1962 - Present
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 116
1962 - Present
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 117
1962 - Present
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 118
1962 - Present
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 119
1962 - Present
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 120
1962 - Present
HPI: 61.39
Rank: 121
1962 - Present
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 122
1962 - Present
HPI: 61.30
Rank: 123
1962 - Present
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 124
1962 - Present
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 125
1962 - Present
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 126
Among people born in Japan, Hironobu Sakaguchi ranks 925 out of 5,560. Before him are Sanae Mishima (1957), Masakatsu Miyamoto (1938), Yoshitada Yamaguchi (1944), Uesugi Harunori (1751), Takehito Koyasu (1967), and Fumiko Enchi (1905). After him are Satoru Nakajima (1953), Sakyo Komatsu (1931), Yuji Kishioku (1954), Kenji Kawai (1957), Koichi Kudo (1909), and Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi (1902).
1957 - Present
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 919
1938 - 2002
HPI: 61.48
Rank: 920
1944 - Present
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 921
1751 - 1822
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 922
1967 - Present
HPI: 61.43
Rank: 923
1905 - 1986
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 924
1962 - Present
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 925
1953 - Present
HPI: 61.39
Rank: 926
1931 - 2011
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 927
1954 - Present
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 928
1957 - Present
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 929
1909 - 1971
HPI: 61.32
Rank: 930
1902 - 1978
HPI: 61.32
Rank: 931
Among game designers born in Japan, Hironobu Sakaguchi ranks 6. Before him are Shigeru Miyamoto (1952), Hideo Kojima (1963), Gunpei Yokoi (1941), Satoru Iwata (1959), and Satoshi Tajiri (1965). After him are 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