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Koji Kondo

1961 - Today

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Koji Kondo (Japanese: 近藤 浩治, Hepburn: Kondō Kōji; born August 13, 1961) is a Japanese composer and senior executive at the video game company Nintendo. He is best known for his contributions for the Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda series, with his Super Mario Bros. theme being the first piece of music from a video game included in the American National Recording Registry. Kondo was hired by Nintendo in 1984 as its first dedicated composer and is currently a Senior Officer at its Entertainment Planning & Development division. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Koji Kondo is the 1,112th most popular composer (down from 798th in 2024), the 1,237th most popular biography from Japan (down from 875th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Japanese Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Koji Kondo ranks 1,112 out of 1,451. Before him are Jean Guillou, Boris Papandopulo, Renzo Rossellini, Gottfried August Homilius, Emil Paur, and Johanna Kinkel. After him are Einar Englund, Jacopo da Bologna, Aulis Sallinen, Yasushi Akutagawa, Harry Partch, and Girolamo Diruta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Koji Kondo ranks 229. Before him are Anders Järryd, Ronnie Brunswijk, Lawrence Lessig, Jeremy Northam, Hideo Nakata, and Ignace Bessi Dogbo. After him are Danny Carey, Paolo Barilla, Mike Lindell, Rob Hall, Mark Phillips, and Yutaka Ikeuchi.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Koji Kondo ranks 1,237 out of 6,245. Before him are Sunao Tawara (1873), Michiko Matsuda (1966), Juzo Itami (1933), Shinichi Kawano (1969), Damo Suzuki (1950), and Chūhei Nambu (1904). After him are Sadakazu Tanigaki (1945), Peter Takeo Okada (1941), Naoto Ohshima (1964), Shirase Nobu (1861), Shinji Kagawa (1989), and Yasushi Akutagawa (1925).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Koji Kondo ranks 12. Before him are Nobuo Uematsu (1959), Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931), Koichi Sugiyama (1931), Keiko Abe (1937), Kenji Kawai (1957), and Akira Ifukube (1914). After him are Yasushi Akutagawa (1925), Fumio Hayasaka (1914), Shirō Sagisu (1957), Akira Yamaoka (1968), Masaaki Suzuki (1954), and Toshio Hosokawa (1955).

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