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Hiroshi Yamauchi

1927 - 2013

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Hiroshi Yamauchi (山内溥, Yamauchi Hiroshi, 7 November 1927 – 19 September 2013) was a Japanese businessman and the third president of Nintendo, joining the company on 25 April 1949 until stepping down on 24 May 2002, being subsequently succeeded by Satoru Iwata. During his 53-year tenure, Yamauchi transformed Nintendo from a hanafuda card-making company that had been active solely in Japan into a multibillion-dollar video game publisher and global conglomerate. He was the great-grandson of Fusajiro Yamauchi, Nintendo's first president and founder. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hiroshi Yamauchi has received more than 1,161,403 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Hiroshi Yamauchi is the 126th most popular businessperson (up from 127th in 2019), the 233rd most popular biography from Japan (up from 275th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Hiroshi Yamauchi ranks 126 out of 601. Before him are Stan Kroenke, César Ritz, Bernard Baruch, Joan Laporta, Walter Chrysler, and Giulia Tofana. After him are Cornelius Vanderbilt, Solomon R. Guggenheim, John DeLorean, Ethan Allen, Roger Ailes, and Henry Ford II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Hiroshi Yamauchi ranks 68. Before him are Romano Mussolini, F. Sherwood Rowland, Abdul Halim of Kedah, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Margot Honecker, and Herbert Blomstedt. After him are Vernon L. Smith, Narciso Yepes, Kurt Masur, Marvin Minsky, Steve Ditko, and Lucio Fulci. Among people deceased in 2013, Hiroshi Yamauchi ranks 51. Before him are Viktor Kulikov, Lawrence Klein, Manfred Rommel, J. J. Cale, Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki. After him are Sara Montiel, Chinua Achebe, Richard Ramirez, John Cornforth, James Avery, and Henri Dutilleux.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiroshi Yamauchi ranks 233 out of 6,048. Before him are Leo Esaki (1925), Emperor Seinei (444), Shunichi Kumai (1910), Shunroku Hata (1879), Nogi Maresuke (1849), and Go Nagai (1945). After him are Issey Miyake (1938), Emperor Shōkō (1401), Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni (1887), Osamu Shimomura (1928), Fumihito, Prince Akishino (1965), and Kaoru Ishikawa (1915).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Japan

Among businesspeople born in Japan, Hiroshi Yamauchi ranks 4. Before him are Soichiro Honda (1906), Kiichiro Toyoda (1894), and Akio Morita (1921). After him are Iwasaki Yatarō (1835), Masayoshi Son (1957), Torakusu Yamaha (1851), Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859), Eiji Toyoda (1913), Mikimoto Kōkichi (1858), Tadashi Yanai (1949), and Norio Ohga (1930).

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