1950 - Today
Tsugumi Ohba (Japanese: 大場 つぐみ, Hepburn: Ōba Tsugumi) is the pen name of a Japanese manga writer, best known for authoring the Death Note manga series with illustrator Takeshi Obata from 2003 to 2006, which has 30 million collected volumes in circulation. The duo's second series, Bakuman. (2008–2012), was also successful with 15 million in circulation. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tsugumi Ohba has received more than 1,202,178 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Tsugumi Ohba is the 17th most popular comic artist (up from 18th in 2019), the 176th most popular biography from Japan (up from 255th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Comic Artist.
Tsugumi Ohba is most famous for being the author of the manga series Death Note.
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Among comic artists, Tsugumi Ohba ranks 17 out of 174. Before him are Hugo Pratt, Matt Groening, Zdeněk Miler, Jack Kirby, Bob Kane, and Morris. After him are Rumiko Takahashi, Go Nagai, Steve Ditko, André Franquin, Quino, and Leiji Matsumoto.
1927 - 1995
HPI: 62.55
Rank: 11
1954 - Present
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 12
1921 - 2011
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 13
1917 - 1994
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 14
1915 - 1998
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 15
1923 - 2001
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 16
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 17
1957 - Present
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 18
1945 - Present
HPI: 59.87
Rank: 19
1927 - 2018
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 20
1924 - 1997
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 21
1932 - 2020
HPI: 59.23
Rank: 22
1938 - Present
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 23
Among people born in 1950, Tsugumi Ohba ranks 39. Before him are Jörg Haider, Jody Williams, William H. Macy, Marcheline Bertrand, Daniel Auteuil, and Jody Scheckter. After him are Russell Alan Hulse, Vesna Vulović, Georg Bednorz, Morgan Fairchild, Grzegorz Lato, and Jorge Carlos Fonseca.
1950 - 2008
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 33
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 34
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.61
Rank: 35
1950 - 2007
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 36
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.19
Rank: 37
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.19
Rank: 38
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 39
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 40
1950 - 2016
HPI: 61.07
Rank: 41
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 42
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.91
Rank: 43
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 44
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.68
Rank: 45
Among people born in Japan, Tsugumi Ohba ranks 176 out of 6,048. Before him are Sugawara no Michizane (845), Edogawa Ranpo (1894), Emperor Kanmu (737), Empress Genshō (680), Emperor Richū (336), and Zeami Motokiyo (1363). After him are Naoto Kan (1946), Imagawa Yoshimoto (1519), Emperor Antoku (1178), Masamune (1300), Emperor Tenmu (631), and Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659).
845 - 903
HPI: 61.30
Rank: 170
1894 - 1965
HPI: 61.30
Rank: 171
737 - 806
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 172
680 - 748
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 173
336 - 405
HPI: 61.21
Rank: 174
1363 - 1443
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 175
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 176
1946 - Present
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 177
1519 - 1560
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 178
1178 - 1185
HPI: 61.07
Rank: 179
1300 - 1400
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 180
631 - 686
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 181
1659 - 1719
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 182
Among comic artists born in Japan, Tsugumi Ohba ranks 3. Before him are Osamu Tezuka (1928) and Akira Toriyama (1955). After him are Rumiko Takahashi (1957), Go Nagai (1945), Leiji Matsumoto (1938), Hirohiko Araki (1960), Masashi Kishimoto (1974), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), Eiichiro Oda (1975), Kentaro Miura (1966), and Yoshihiro Togashi (1966).
1928 - 1989
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 1
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 2
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 3
1957 - Present
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 4
1945 - Present
HPI: 59.87
Rank: 5
1938 - Present
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 6
1960 - Present
HPI: 57.83
Rank: 7
1974 - Present
HPI: 57.62
Rank: 8
1954 - Present
HPI: 57.20
Rank: 9
1975 - Present
HPI: 57.04
Rank: 10
1966 - 2021
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 11
1966 - Present
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 12