GAME DESIGNER

Peter Molyneux

1959 - Today

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Peter Douglas Molyneux (; born 5 May 1959) is an English video game designer and programmer. He created the god games Populous, Dungeon Keeper, and Black & White, as well as Theme Park, the Fable series, Curiosity: What's Inside the Cube?, and Godus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Molyneux has received more than 1,956,213 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Peter Molyneux is the 21st most popular game designer, the 3,434th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,481st in 2019) and the most popular British Game Designer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Peter Molyneux ranks 21 out of 77. Before him are Shigesato Itoi, Gary Gygax, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Toru Iwatani, Masayuki Uemura, and Hidetaka Miyazaki. After him are Reiner Knizia, Dave Arneson, Yu Suzuki, Kazunori Yamauchi, Carol Shaw, and Eiji Aonuma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Peter Molyneux ranks 236. Before him are Sanjay Dutt, Steven Erikson, Erwin Olaf, Glenn Hysén, Dominique Dunne, and Marco Antonio Solís. After him are Janusz Kamiński, Ana Torroja, Victoire Tomegah Dogbé, Iakoba Italeli, Zeruya Shalev, and César Évora.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Molyneux ranks 3,434 out of 8,785. Before him are Wilfred Baddeley (1872), Stanley Spencer (1891), E. L. James (1963), Peter Davison (1951), Tony Martin (1957), and Gerrard Winstanley (1609). After him are Val McDermid (1955), Samantha Bond (1961), Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet (1628), David Lloyd (1950), John Alcott (1930), and Vivian Fuchs (1908).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In United Kingdom

Among game designers born in United Kingdom, Peter Molyneux ranks 1. After him are Chris Sawyer (1961), and Toby Gard (1972).

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