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Shigesato Itoi

1948 - Today

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Shigesato Itoi (糸井 重里, Itoi Shigesato, born November 10, 1948) is a Japanese copywriter, essayist, lyricist, game designer, and actor. Itoi is the editor-in-chief of his website and company Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun ("Almost Daily Itoi Newspaper"). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shigesato Itoi has received more than 570,172 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Shigesato Itoi is the 15th most popular game designer, the 951st most popular biography from Japan and the 8th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Shigesato Itoi ranks 15 out of 56. Before him are Masayuki Uemura, Alexey Pajitnov, Satoshi Tajiri, Sid Meier, Lizzie Magie, and Toru Iwatani. After him are Shinji Mikami, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Klaus Teuber, Gary Gygax, Masahiro Sakurai, and Peter Molyneux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Shigesato Itoi ranks 280. Before him are Jennifer O'Neill, Horst Köppel, Mahamane Ousmane, Mercedes Ruehl, Tony Ramos, and Perry King. After him are Sergei Bodrov, Kyung Wha Chung, Eddy Grant, Olivier Blanchard, Magdaléna Vášáryová, and Gioconda Belli.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shigesato Itoi ranks 951 out of 6,048. Before him are Sekiryo Kaneda (1901), Shinji Kagawa (1989), Kenji Kawai (1957), Peter Shirayanagi (1928), Sion Sono (1961), and Koichi Tanaka (1959). After him are Misuzu Kaneko (1903), Ichiro Suzuki (1973), Uchida Kōsai (1865), Akira Ifukube (1914), Megumi Torigoe (1950), and Jinichi Kusaka (1888).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Shigesato Itoi ranks 8. Before him are Hideo Kojima (1963), Gunpei Yokoi (1941), Satoru Iwata (1959), Masayuki Uemura (1943), Satoshi Tajiri (1965), and Toru Iwatani (1955). After him are Shinji Mikami (1965), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Masahiro Sakurai (1970), Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974), Yu Suzuki (1958), and Eiji Aonuma (1963).

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