1959 - Today
Nobuo Uematsu (植松 伸夫, Uematsu Nobuo, born March 21, 1959) is a Japanese composer and keyboardist best known for his contributions to the Final Fantasy video game series by Square Enix. A self-taught musician, he began playing the piano at the age of twelve, with English singer-songwriter Elton John as one of his biggest influences.Uematsu joined Square in 1986, where he first met Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi. The two later worked together on many games at the company, most notably in the Final Fantasy series. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nobuo Uematsu has received more than 1,604,165 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Nobuo Uematsu is the 840th most popular composer (down from 784th in 2019), the 866th most popular biography from Japan (down from 834th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Composer.
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Among composers, Nobuo Uematsu ranks 840 out of 1,216. Before him are Nikolai Zaremba, Robert Volkmann, Elliott Carter, Emil von Reznicek, Korla Awgust Kocor, and La Monte Young. After him are Antonín Vranický, Anthony van Hoboken, Guy Ropartz, Alfred Bruneau, Charles Burney, and Carl Schuricht.
1821 - 1879
HPI: 51.34
Rank: 834
1815 - 1883
HPI: 51.32
Rank: 835
1908 - 2012
HPI: 51.32
Rank: 836
1860 - 1945
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 837
1822 - 1904
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 838
1935 - Present
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 839
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 840
1761 - 1820
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 841
1887 - 1983
HPI: 51.24
Rank: 842
1864 - 1955
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 843
1857 - 1934
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 844
1726 - 1814
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 845
1880 - 1967
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 846
Among people born in 1959, Nobuo Uematsu ranks 132. Before him are Baltazar Maria de Morais Júnior, Pietro Vierchowod, Jim Yong Kim, Bernardo Rezende, Roberto Moreno, and Irene Cara. After him are Steven Knight, Hassan Diab, Massimo Bonini, Majid Majidi, Majed Abdullah, and Erhard Loretan.
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.63
Rank: 126
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.61
Rank: 127
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 128
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 129
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 130
1959 - 2022
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 131
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 132
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 133
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 134
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 135
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.09
Rank: 136
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 137
1959 - 2011
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 138
Among people born in Japan, Nobuo Uematsu ranks 866 out of 6,048. Before him are Chiyonofuji Mitsugu (1955), Kusumoto Ine (1827), Tarō Kōno (1963), Norio Ohga (1930), Hitoshi Igarashi (1947), and Koichi Tohei (1920). After him are Tōson Shimazaki (1872), Maruyama Ōkyo (1733), Futabatei Shimei (1864), Akinori Nakayama (1943), Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), and Takehiko Inoue (1967).
1955 - 2016
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 860
1827 - 1903
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 861
1963 - Present
HPI: 51.35
Rank: 862
1930 - 2011
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 863
1947 - 1991
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 864
1920 - 2011
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 865
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 866
1872 - 1943
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 867
1733 - 1795
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 868
1864 - 1909
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 869
1943 - Present
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 870
1928 - 2013
HPI: 51.18
Rank: 871
1967 - Present
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 872
Among composers born in Japan, Nobuo Uematsu ranks 8. Before him are Toru Takemitsu (1930), Koichi Sugiyama (1931), Ichirou Mizuki (1948), Miki Matsubara (1959), Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931), and Keiko Abe (1937). After him are Kenji Kawai (1957), Akira Ifukube (1914), Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), Yasushi Akutagawa (1925), Fumio Hayasaka (1914), and Koji Kondo (1961).
1930 - 1996
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 2
1931 - 2021
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 3
1948 - 2022
HPI: 57.05
Rank: 4
1959 - 2004
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 5
1931 - 2021
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 6
1937 - Present
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 7
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