1961 - Today
Koji Kondo (Japanese: 近藤 浩治, Hepburn: Kondō Kōji, August 13, 1961) is a Japanese music composer, pianist, and sound director for the video game company Nintendo. He is best known for his many contributions to the Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda series of video games, among others produced by the company. Kondo was hired by Nintendo in 1984, becoming the first person hired by them to specialize in video game music. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Koji Kondo has received more than 1,384,754 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Koji Kondo is the 1,067th most popular composer (down from 1,043rd in 2019), the 1,096th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,075th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Japanese Composer.
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Among composers, Koji Kondo ranks 1,067 out of 1,216. Before him are Morton Gould, Avet Terterian, Sanja Ilić, Roger Sessions, Charles Avison, and Tristan Murail. After him are William Christie, Nikolaos Mantzaros, Jānis Ivanovs, Toivo Kuula, Julius Benedict, and Édouard Colonne.
1913 - 1996
HPI: 47.96
Rank: 1,061
1929 - 1994
HPI: 47.95
Rank: 1,062
1951 - 2021
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 1,063
1896 - 1985
HPI: 47.92
Rank: 1,064
1709 - 1770
HPI: 47.91
Rank: 1,065
1947 - Present
HPI: 47.90
Rank: 1,066
1961 - Present
HPI: 47.90
Rank: 1,067
1944 - Present
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 1,068
1795 - 1872
HPI: 47.87
Rank: 1,069
1906 - 1983
HPI: 47.85
Rank: 1,070
1883 - 1918
HPI: 47.84
Rank: 1,071
1804 - 1885
HPI: 47.82
Rank: 1,072
1838 - 1910
HPI: 47.81
Rank: 1,073
Among people born in 1961, Koji Kondo ranks 183. Before him are Raymond Cruz, Benny Chan, Gabrielle Carteris, Carey Lowell, Pumpuang Duangjan, and Ann Linde. After him are Doris Dragović, Mariel Hemingway, Steve Holmes, Joe Lando, Sigrid Kaag, and Lars Olsen.
1961 - Present
HPI: 48.09
Rank: 177
1961 - 2020
HPI: 48.07
Rank: 178
1961 - Present
HPI: 48.04
Rank: 179
1961 - Present
HPI: 48.03
Rank: 180
1961 - 1992
HPI: 48.02
Rank: 181
1961 - Present
HPI: 47.92
Rank: 182
1961 - Present
HPI: 47.90
Rank: 183
1961 - Present
HPI: 47.84
Rank: 184
1961 - Present
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 185
1961 - Present
HPI: 47.70
Rank: 186
1961 - Present
HPI: 47.57
Rank: 187
1961 - Present
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 188
1961 - Present
HPI: 47.45
Rank: 189
Among people born in Japan, Koji Kondo ranks 1,096 out of 6,048. Before him are Masi Oka (1974), Hajime Isayama (1986), Ted Fujita (1920), Takeshi Okada (1956), Yumi Matsutoya (1954), and Takako Doi (1928). After him are Miyoshi Umeki (1929), Tsukasa Hojo (1959), Rinko Kikuchi (1981), Shunichiro Okano (1931), Masafumi Yokoyama (1956), and Daisuke Gōri (1952).
1974 - Present
HPI: 47.97
Rank: 1,090
1986 - Present
HPI: 47.97
Rank: 1,091
1920 - 1998
HPI: 47.96
Rank: 1,092
1956 - Present
HPI: 47.95
Rank: 1,093
1954 - Present
HPI: 47.94
Rank: 1,094
1928 - 2014
HPI: 47.92
Rank: 1,095
1961 - Present
HPI: 47.90
Rank: 1,096
1929 - 2007
HPI: 47.90
Rank: 1,097
1959 - Present
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 1,098
1981 - Present
HPI: 47.85
Rank: 1,099
1931 - 2017
HPI: 47.83
Rank: 1,100
1956 - Present
HPI: 47.83
Rank: 1,101
1952 - 2010
HPI: 47.81
Rank: 1,102
Among composers born in Japan, Koji Kondo ranks 14. Before him are Nobuo Uematsu (1959), Kenji Kawai (1957), Akira Ifukube (1914), Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), Yasushi Akutagawa (1925), and Fumio Hayasaka (1914). After him are Akira Yamaoka (1968), Hiroyuki Sawano (1980), Junichi Masuda (1968), Toshio Hosokawa (1955), Masaaki Suzuki (1954), and Yuzo Koshiro (1967).
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 8
1957 - Present
HPI: 50.11
Rank: 9
1914 - 2006
HPI: 50.02
Rank: 10
1933 - 2022
HPI: 49.82
Rank: 11
1925 - 1989
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 12
1914 - 1955
HPI: 48.18
Rank: 13
1961 - Present
HPI: 47.90
Rank: 14
1968 - Present
HPI: 46.54
Rank: 15
1980 - Present
HPI: 45.20
Rank: 16
1968 - Present
HPI: 43.85
Rank: 17
1955 - Present
HPI: 43.26
Rank: 18
1954 - Present
HPI: 42.75
Rank: 19
1967 - Present
HPI: 40.35
Rank: 20