1957 - Today
Rumiko Takahashi (高橋 留美子, Takahashi Rumiko, born October 10, 1957) is a Japanese manga artist. With a career of several commercially successful works, beginning with Urusei Yatsura in 1978, Takahashi is one of Japan's best-known and wealthiest manga artists. Her works are popular worldwide, where they have been translated into a variety of languages, with over 200 million copies in circulation. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rumiko Takahashi has received more than 1,017,097 page views. Her biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Rumiko Takahashi is the 19th most popular comic artist (up from 22nd in 2019), the 261st most popular biography from Japan (up from 270th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.
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Among comic artists, Rumiko Takahashi ranks 19 out of 174. Before her are Bob Kane, Jack Kirby, Morris, Zdeněk Miler, Steve Ditko, and Tsugumi Ohba. After her are Georges Wolinski, Alan Moore, Leiji Matsumoto, Will Eisner, Quino, and Milo Manara.
1915 - 1998
HPI: 71.04
Rank: 13
1917 - 1994
HPI: 71.03
Rank: 14
1923 - 2001
HPI: 70.97
Rank: 15
1921 - 2011
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 16
1927 - 2018
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 17
1950 - Present
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 18
1957 - Present
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 19
1934 - 2015
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 20
1953 - Present
HPI: 68.51
Rank: 21
1938 - Present
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 22
1917 - 2005
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 23
1932 - 2020
HPI: 68.19
Rank: 24
1945 - Present
HPI: 68.18
Rank: 25
Among people born in 1957, Rumiko Takahashi ranks 32. Before her are Spike Lee, Richard E. Grant, Paul Kagame, Rinat Dasayev, Ai Weiwei, and Carrie Lam. After her are Caroline Kennedy, Michael Madsen, Fran Drescher, Nick Cave, Theo van Gogh, and Lucien Favre.
1957 - Present
HPI: 69.46
Rank: 26
1957 - Present
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 27
1957 - Present
HPI: 69.13
Rank: 28
1957 - Present
HPI: 68.96
Rank: 29
1957 - Present
HPI: 68.90
Rank: 30
1957 - Present
HPI: 68.78
Rank: 31
1957 - Present
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 32
1957 - Present
HPI: 68.61
Rank: 33
1957 - Present
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 34
1957 - Present
HPI: 68.47
Rank: 35
1957 - Present
HPI: 68.27
Rank: 36
1957 - 2004
HPI: 68.19
Rank: 37
1957 - Present
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 38
Among people born in Japan, Rumiko Takahashi ranks 261 out of 5,560. Before her are Tsugumi Ohba (1950), Terauchi Masatake (1852), Tokugawa Yoshimune (1684), Kazuyoshi Miura (1967), Takehiko Kawanishi (1938), and Tamon Yamaguchi (1892). After her are Katō Kiyomasa (1561), Susumu Tonegawa (1939), Nobuyuki Abe (1875), Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), Empress Genshō (680), and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358).
1950 - Present
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 255
1852 - 1919
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 256
1684 - 1751
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 257
1967 - Present
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 258
1938 - Present
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 259
1892 - 1942
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 260
1957 - Present
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 261
1561 - 1611
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 262
1939 - Present
HPI: 68.70
Rank: 263
1875 - 1953
HPI: 68.70
Rank: 264
1920 - 1989
HPI: 68.69
Rank: 265
680 - 748
HPI: 68.64
Rank: 266
1358 - 1408
HPI: 68.63
Rank: 267
Among comic artists born in Japan, Rumiko Takahashi ranks 4. Before her are Osamu Tezuka (1928), Akira Toriyama (1955), and Tsugumi Ohba (1950). After her are Leiji Matsumoto (1938), Go Nagai (1945), Masashi Kishimoto (1974), Eiichiro Oda (1975), Monkey Punch (1937), Shotaro Ishinomori (1938), Yoshihiro Togashi (1966), and Katsuhiro Otomo (1954).
1928 - 1989
HPI: 76.91
Rank: 1
1955 - Present
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 2
1950 - Present
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 3
1957 - Present
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 4
1938 - Present
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 5
1945 - Present
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 6
1974 - Present
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 7
1975 - Present
HPI: 66.34
Rank: 8
1937 - 2019
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 9
1938 - 1998
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 10
1966 - Present
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 11
1954 - Present
HPI: 65.44
Rank: 12