1955 - Today
Toru Iwatani (岩谷 徹, Iwatani Tōru, born January 25, 1955) is a Japanese video game designer who spent much of his career working for Namco. He is best known as the creator of the arcade game Pac-Man (1980). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Toru Iwatani has received more than 1,048,542 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Toru Iwatani is the 14th most popular game designer, the 935th most popular biography from Japan (up from 943rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Game Designer.
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Among game designers, Toru Iwatani ranks 14 out of 56. Before him are Satoru Iwata, Masayuki Uemura, Alexey Pajitnov, Satoshi Tajiri, Sid Meier, and Lizzie Magie. After him are Shigesato Itoi, Shinji Mikami, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Klaus Teuber, Gary Gygax, and Masahiro Sakurai.
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
1866 - 1948
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 13
1955 - Present
HPI: 50.25
Rank: 14
1948 - Present
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 15
1965 - Present
HPI: 49.95
Rank: 16
1962 - Present
HPI: 49.35
Rank: 17
1952 - 2023
HPI: 47.76
Rank: 18
1938 - 2008
HPI: 47.04
Rank: 19
1970 - Present
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 20
Among people born in 1955, Toru Iwatani ranks 177. Before him are Tommy Emmanuel, Wang Huning, Mike Porcaro, Laurie Metcalf, Branscombe Richmond, and Anupam Kher. After him are Kate Mulgrew, Melinda Culea, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Herbert Prohaska, Dominique Rocheteau, and Philippe Streiff.
1955 - Present
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 171
1955 - Present
HPI: 50.73
Rank: 172
1955 - 2015
HPI: 50.72
Rank: 173
1955 - Present
HPI: 50.67
Rank: 174
1955 - Present
HPI: 50.31
Rank: 175
1955 - Present
HPI: 50.27
Rank: 176
1955 - Present
HPI: 50.25
Rank: 177
1955 - Present
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 178
1955 - Present
HPI: 50.10
Rank: 179
1955 - Present
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 180
1955 - Present
HPI: 49.99
Rank: 181
1955 - Present
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 182
1955 - 2022
HPI: 49.80
Rank: 183
Among people born in Japan, Toru Iwatani ranks 935 out of 6,048. Before him are Kuroda Seiki (1866), Yasuhiko Okudera (1952), Matsudaira Sadanobu (1759), Kyōko Kagawa (1931), Hiroshi Katayama (1940), and Mitsuo Kamata (1937). After him are Kazuki Takahashi (1961), Abe Masahiro (1819), Nobuko Yoshiya (1896), Noriaki Kasai (1972), Uesugi Harunori (1751), and Unkei (1151).
1866 - 1924
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 929
1952 - Present
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 930
1759 - 1829
HPI: 50.26
Rank: 931
1931 - Present
HPI: 50.26
Rank: 932
1940 - Present
HPI: 50.26
Rank: 933
1937 - Present
HPI: 50.26
Rank: 934
1955 - Present
HPI: 50.25
Rank: 935
1961 - 2022
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 936
1819 - 1857
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 937
1896 - 1973
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 938
1972 - Present
HPI: 50.20
Rank: 939
1751 - 1822
HPI: 50.20
Rank: 940
1151 - 1223
HPI: 50.19
Rank: 941
Among game designers born in Japan, Toru Iwatani ranks 7. Before him are Shigeru Miyamoto (1952), Hideo Kojima (1963), Gunpei Yokoi (1941), Satoru Iwata (1959), Masayuki Uemura (1943), and Satoshi Tajiri (1965). After him are Shigesato Itoi (1948), Shinji Mikami (1965), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Masahiro Sakurai (1970), Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974), and Yu Suzuki (1958).
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
1958 - Present
HPI: 45.14
Rank: 13