GAME DESIGNER

Sid Meier

1954 - Today

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Sidney K. Meier ( MIRE; born February 24, 1954) is an American businessman and computer programmer. A programmer, designer, and producer of several strategy video games and simulation video games, including the Civilization series, Meier co-founded MicroProse in 1982 with Bill Stealey and is the Director of Creative Development of Firaxis Games, which he co-founded with Jeff Briggs and Brian Reynolds in 1996. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sid Meier has received more than 2,061,351 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Sid Meier is the 13th most popular game designer (down from 12th in 2019), the 151st most popular biography from Canada (down from 144th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Game Designer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Sid Meiers by language

Over the past year Sid Meier has had the most page views in the with 217,965 views, followed by Russian (27,653), and German (24,553). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (54.66%), Wu Chinese (19.82%), and German (17.10%)

Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Sid Meier ranks 13 out of 77. Before him are Gunpei Yokoi, Gabe Newell, Satoru Iwata, Satoshi Tajiri, Lizzie Magie, and Klaus Teuber. After him are Shinji Mikami, Shigesato Itoi, Gary Gygax, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Toru Iwatani, and Masayuki Uemura.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Sid Meier ranks 128. Before him are Herbert Hainer, Hussein Kamel al-Majid, Han Zheng, Karin Fossum, Bruno Metsu, and Valery Gazzaev. After him are Philip J. Pierre, Lee Chang-dong, Morten P. Meldal, Catherine Samba-Panza, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, and David Lee Roth.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Sid Meier ranks 151 out of 1,622. Before him are William B. Davis (1938), Paul Watson (1950), Shania Twain (1965), Gerald Bull (1928), Joshua Slocum (1844), and Wilfrid Laurier (1841). After him are Donald Arnold (1935), James Gosling (1955), Ted Kotcheff (1931), Brian Kernighan (1942), Fay Wray (1907), and Hayden Christensen (1981).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Canada

Among game designers born in Canada, Sid Meier ranks 1. After him are Chris Taylor (1950), and Patrice Désilets (1974).

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