Game Designer

Masahiro Sakurai

Japanese video game designer

1970 - today

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His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Masahiro Sakurai is the 28th most popular game designer (up from 30th in 2024), the 1,429th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,358th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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Masahiro Sakurai's Wikipedia page drew 510k views over the past year, 2.6× the average among Game Designers.

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Among Game Designers

Among game designers, Masahiro Sakurai ranks 28 out of 91. Before him are Shinji Mikami, Naoto Ohshima, Hidetaka Miyazaki, Reiner Knizia, Carol Shaw, and Will Wright. After him are Yoko Taro, Yu Suzuki, Peter Molyneux, Kazunori Yamauchi, Roberta Williams, and Hideki Kamiya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Masahiro Sakurai ranks 186. Before him are Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Saulius Skvernelis, Nobuhiro Watsuki, Abelardo Fernández, Zack de la Rocha, and Daniel Lewin. After him are Yoko Taro, Davide Pagliarani, Karen Mulder, Regine Velasquez, Alexander Pschill, and JR Bourne.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masahiro Sakurai ranks 1,429 out of 6,943. Before him are Yoshinobu Akao (1975), Toru Sano (1963), Masaru Furukawa (1936), Tokiharu Abe (1911), Kaoru Nagadome (1973), and Kaori Momoi (1951). After him are Masakazu Katsura (1962), Yoshihide Nishikawa (1978), Taki Inoue (1963), Gackt (1973), Takeshi Shimizu (1975), and Akio Kaminaga (1936).

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Among Game Designers In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Masahiro Sakurai ranks 13. Before him are Shigesato Itoi (1948), Masayuki Uemura (1943), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Shinji Mikami (1965), Naoto Ohshima (1964), and Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974). After him are Yoko Taro (1970), Yu Suzuki (1958), Kazunori Yamauchi (1967), Hideki Kamiya (1970), Eiji Aonuma (1963), and Yuji Horii (1954).

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