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Satoru Iwata

1959 - 2015

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Satoru Iwata (Japanese: 岩田 聡, Hepburn: Iwata Satoru, December 6, 1959 – July 11, 2015) was a Japanese businessman, video game programmer, video game designer, and producer. He was the fourth president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Nintendo from 2002 until his death in 2015. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Satoru Iwata has received more than 4,510,653 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia. Satoru Iwata is the 8th most popular game designer (up from 9th in 2019), the 525th most popular biography from Japan (up from 613th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Satoru Iwata ranks 8 out of 56. Before him are Markus Persson, Ralph H. Baer, Hideo Kojima, Gabe Newell, Jeff Kinney, and Gunpei Yokoi. After him are Masayuki Uemura, Alexey Pajitnov, Satoshi Tajiri, Sid Meier, Lizzie Magie, and Toru Iwatani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Satoru Iwata ranks 59. Before him are Nina Hartley, Ali Bongo Ondimba, Donna Strickland, Rupert Everett, Wim Hof, and Benny Gantz. After him are Richie Sambora, Sean Young, Marcia Gay Harden, Moza bint Nasser, Abdullah of Pahang, and Azali Assoumani. Among people deceased in 2015, Satoru Iwata ranks 97. Before him are Jean-Pierre Beltoise, Philippe Honoré, André Brink, Kenzo Ohashi, John Guillermin, and Patrick Macnee. After him are Shigeru Mizuki, Ieng Thirith, Percy Sledge, Magali Noël, Tadahiko Ueda, and Jaakko Hintikka.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Satoru Iwata ranks 525 out of 6,048. Before him are Akiko Wakabayashi (1941), Hajime Sugiyama (1880), Masaharu Homma (1888), Chōsokabe Motochika (1539), Takahashi Korekiyo (1854), and Emperor Suzaku (923). After him are Waichiro Omura (1933), Kiyoo Kanda (1900), Norio Yoshimizu (1946), Shiro Teshima (1907), Gosho Aoyama (1963), and Masayoshi Ōhira (1910).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Satoru Iwata ranks 4. Before him are Shigeru Miyamoto (1952), Hideo Kojima (1963), and Gunpei Yokoi (1941). After him are Masayuki Uemura (1943), Satoshi Tajiri (1965), Toru Iwatani (1955), Shigesato Itoi (1948), Shinji Mikami (1965), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Masahiro Sakurai (1970), and Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974).

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