GAME DESIGNER

Shigeru Miyamoto

1952 - Today

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Shigeru Miyamoto (Japanese: 宮本 茂, Hepburn: Miyamoto Shigeru, born November 16, 1952) is a Japanese video game designer, producer and game director at Nintendo, where he serves as one of its representative directors as an executive since 2002. Widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential designers in video games, he is the creator of some of the most acclaimed and best-selling game franchises of all time, including Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, Star Fox and Pikmin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shigeru Miyamoto has received more than 6,847,392 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Shigeru Miyamoto is the most popular game designer, the 126th most popular biography from Japan (up from 157th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Game Designer.

Shigeru Miyamoto is most famous for his work on the video game series Super Mario Bros.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Shigeru Miyamoto ranks 1 out of 77. After him are Hideo Kojima, Alexey Pajitnov, Markus Persson, Ralph H. Baer, Jeff Kinney, Gunpei Yokoi, Gabe Newell, Satoru Iwata, Satoshi Tajiri, Lizzie Magie, and Klaus Teuber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Shigeru Miyamoto ranks 39. Before him are Bronisław Komorowski, Tomislav Nikolić, Lee Hsien Loong, John Goodman, Isabella Rossellini, and Allan Simonsen. After him are Anneliese Michel, Idriss Déby, Jimmy Connors, Christian Clavier, Dan Aykroyd, and Fuad II of Egypt.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shigeru Miyamoto ranks 126 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Kōan (-427), Akio Morita (1921), Empress Kōjun (1903), Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886), Emperor Higashiyama (1675), and Emperor Go-Kōmyō (1633). After him are Eisaku Satō (1901), Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604), Yamato Takeru (72), Masaru Emoto (1943), Shigeru Yoshida (1878), and Emperor Go-Sai (1638).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Shigeru Miyamoto ranks 1. After him are Hideo Kojima (1963), Gunpei Yokoi (1941), Satoru Iwata (1959), Satoshi Tajiri (1965), Shinji Mikami (1965), Shigesato Itoi (1948), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Toru Iwatani (1955), Masayuki Uemura (1943), Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974), and Yu Suzuki (1958).

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