1952 - Today
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 6,483,395 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Shigeru Miyamoto is the most popular game designer, the 157th most popular biography from Japan (up from 161st 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.
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Among game designers, Shigeru Miyamoto ranks 1 out of 56. After him are Markus Persson, Ralph H. Baer, Hideo Kojima, Gabe Newell, Jeff Kinney, Gunpei Yokoi, Satoru Iwata, Masayuki Uemura, Alexey Pajitnov, Satoshi Tajiri, and Sid Meier.
1952 - Present
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 1
1979 - Present
HPI: 59.49
Rank: 2
1922 - 2014
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 3
1963 - Present
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 4
1962 - Present
HPI: 57.06
Rank: 5
1971 - Present
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 6
1941 - 1997
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 7
1959 - 2015
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 8
1943 - 2021
HPI: 54.63
Rank: 9
1956 - Present
HPI: 54.62
Rank: 10
1965 - Present
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 11
1954 - Present
HPI: 53.84
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1952, Shigeru Miyamoto ranks 41. Before him are Idriss Déby, Bronisław Komorowski, Tomislav Nikolić, Arkan, Christian Clavier, and İbrahim Tatlıses. After him are Maria Schneider, David Hasselhoff, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mr. T, Jimmy Connors, and Cyril Ramaphosa.
1952 - 2021
HPI: 62.39
Rank: 35
1952 - Present
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 36
1952 - Present
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 37
1952 - 2000
HPI: 62.13
Rank: 38
1952 - Present
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 39
1952 - Present
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 40
1952 - Present
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 41
1952 - 2011
HPI: 61.43
Rank: 42
1952 - Present
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 43
1952 - 2023
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 44
1952 - Present
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 45
1952 - Present
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 46
1952 - Present
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 47
Among people born in Japan, Shigeru Miyamoto ranks 157 out of 6,048. Before him are Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797), Nagisa Oshima (1932), Yasuo Fukuda (1936), Masaki Kobayashi (1916), Arata Isozaki (1931), and Emperor Sujin (-147). After him are Shigeru Yoshida (1878), Fujiko Fujio (1934), Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604), Mikao Usui (1865), Emperor Ōjin (210), and Kitarō (1953).
1797 - 1861
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 151
1932 - 2013
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 152
1936 - Present
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 153
1916 - 1996
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 154
1931 - 2022
HPI: 61.59
Rank: 155
147 BC - 29 BC
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 156
1952 - Present
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 157
1878 - 1967
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 158
1934 - Present
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 159
1604 - 1651
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 160
1865 - 1926
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 161
210 - 310
HPI: 61.47
Rank: 162
1953 - Present
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 163
Among game designers born in Japan, Shigeru Miyamoto ranks 1. After him are Hideo Kojima (1963), Gunpei Yokoi (1941), Satoru Iwata (1959), 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).
1952 - Present
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 1
1963 - Present
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 2
1941 - 1997
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 3
1959 - 2015
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 4
1943 - 2021
HPI: 54.63
Rank: 5
1965 - Present
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 6
1955 - Present
HPI: 50.25
Rank: 7
1948 - Present
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 8
1965 - Present
HPI: 49.95
Rank: 9
1962 - Present
HPI: 49.35
Rank: 10
1970 - Present
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 11
1974 - Present
HPI: 46.12
Rank: 12