1973 - Today
Kouta Hirano (平野 耕太, Hirano Kōta, born July 14, 1973) is a Japanese manga artist born in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan, most famous for his manga Hellsing and Drifters. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kouta Hirano has received more than 505,066 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Kouta Hirano is the 137th most popular comic artist (down from 130th in 2019), the 1,360th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,351st in 2019) and the 50th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.
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Among comic artists, Kouta Hirano ranks 137 out of 174. Before him are John Buscema, George Herriman, Seishi Kishimoto, Hiroyuki Takei, R. K. Laxman, and Moyoco Anno. After him are Tooru Fujisawa, Raymond Briggs, Harvey Kurtzman, Inio Asano, Mort Walker, and Lynn Okamoto.
1927 - 2002
HPI: 44.19
Rank: 131
1880 - 1944
HPI: 43.99
Rank: 132
1974 - Present
HPI: 43.63
Rank: 133
1972 - Present
HPI: 43.63
Rank: 134
1921 - 2015
HPI: 43.61
Rank: 135
1971 - Present
HPI: 43.38
Rank: 136
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.27
Rank: 137
1967 - Present
HPI: 43.25
Rank: 138
1934 - 2022
HPI: 43.10
Rank: 139
1924 - 1993
HPI: 43.01
Rank: 140
1980 - Present
HPI: 42.90
Rank: 141
1923 - 2018
HPI: 42.87
Rank: 142
1970 - Present
HPI: 42.72
Rank: 143
Among people born in 1973, Kouta Hirano ranks 233. Before him are Dennis Gansel, Katsuyuki Konishi, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, James Foley, Jared Borgetti, and Laura Codruța Kövesi. After him are Isabel dos Santos, Jesse Marsch, Akira Amano, Johan Micoud, Benjamin Biolay, and Samuel Benchetrit.
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
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.20
Rank: 236
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.15
Rank: 237
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.13
Rank: 238
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.11
Rank: 239
Among people born in Japan, Kouta Hirano ranks 1,360 out of 6,048. Before him are Moyoco Anno (1971), Yoshinobu Miyake (1939), Kenta Hasegawa (1965), Noriko Hidaka (1962), Hiromasa Yonebayashi (1973), and Nobuko Jashima (1959). After him are Toshio Hosokawa (1955), Kono Yasui (1880), Tooru Fujisawa (1967), Nana Mizuki (1980), Eiji Aonuma (1963), and Yukari Tamura (1978).
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
1963 - Present
HPI: 43.25
Rank: 1,365
1978 - Present
HPI: 43.24
Rank: 1,366
Among comic artists born in Japan, Kouta Hirano ranks 50. Before him are Yōichi Takahashi (1960), Ken Sugimori (1966), Tsutomu Nihei (1971), Seishi Kishimoto (1974), Hiroyuki Takei (1972), and Moyoco Anno (1971). After him are Tooru Fujisawa (1967), Inio Asano (1980), Lynn Okamoto (1970), Momoko Sakura (1965), Kiyohiko Azuma (1968), and Norihiro Yagi (1968).
1960 - Present
HPI: 44.97
Rank: 44
1966 - Present
HPI: 44.44
Rank: 45
1971 - Present
HPI: 44.27
Rank: 46
1974 - Present
HPI: 43.63
Rank: 47
1972 - Present
HPI: 43.63
Rank: 48
1971 - Present
HPI: 43.38
Rank: 49
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.27
Rank: 50
1967 - Present
HPI: 43.25
Rank: 51
1980 - Present
HPI: 42.90
Rank: 52
1970 - Present
HPI: 42.72
Rank: 53
1965 - 2018
HPI: 42.58
Rank: 54
1968 - Present
HPI: 42.49
Rank: 55
1968 - Present
HPI: 41.95
Rank: 56