1950 - Today
Tsugumi Ohba (Japanese: 大場 つぐみ, Hepburn: Ōba Tsugumi) is the pen name of a Japanese gensakusha or writer of manga, 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 751,596 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Tsugumi Ohba is the 18th most popular comic artist (up from 26th in 2019), the 255th most popular biography from Japan (up from 322nd 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 18 out of 174. Before him are Hugo Pratt, Bob Kane, Jack Kirby, Morris, Zdeněk Miler, and Steve Ditko. After him are Rumiko Takahashi, Georges Wolinski, Alan Moore, Leiji Matsumoto, Will Eisner, and Quino.
1927 - 1995
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 12
1915 - 1998
HPI: 71.04
Rank: 13
1917 - 1994
HPI: 71.03
Rank: 14
1923 - 2001
HPI: 70.97
Rank: 15
1921 - 2011
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 16
1927 - 2018
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 17
1950 - Present
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 18
1957 - Present
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 19
1934 - 2015
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 20
1953 - Present
HPI: 68.51
Rank: 21
1938 - Present
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 22
1917 - 2005
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 23
1932 - 2020
HPI: 68.19
Rank: 24
Among people born in 1950, Tsugumi Ohba ranks 44. Before him are Julie Walters, Mark Spitz, Ma Ying-jeou, Vesna Vulović, Bjarne Stroustrup, and William H. Macy. After him are Christina Onassis, Jeffery Deaver, Jody Scheckter, Georg Bednorz, Nouri al-Maliki, and Julius Erving.
1950 - Present
HPI: 69.46
Rank: 38
1950 - Present
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 39
1950 - Present
HPI: 69.38
Rank: 40
1950 - 2016
HPI: 69.36
Rank: 41
1950 - Present
HPI: 69.19
Rank: 42
1950 - Present
HPI: 69.11
Rank: 43
1950 - Present
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 44
1950 - 1988
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 45
1950 - Present
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 46
1950 - Present
HPI: 68.68
Rank: 47
1950 - Present
HPI: 68.68
Rank: 48
1950 - Present
HPI: 68.62
Rank: 49
1950 - Present
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 50
Among people born in Japan, Tsugumi Ohba ranks 255 out of 5,560. Before him are Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Emperor Ankō (401), Masanori Tokita (1925), Mōri Motonari (1497), Tamotsu Asakura (null), and Yukio Tsuda (1917). After him are Terauchi Masatake (1852), Tokugawa Yoshimune (1684), Kazuyoshi Miura (1967), Takehiko Kawanishi (1938), Tamon Yamaguchi (1892), and Rumiko Takahashi (1957).
1926 - 2020
HPI: 68.90
Rank: 249
401 - 456
HPI: 68.90
Rank: 250
1925 - 2004
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 251
1497 - 1571
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 252
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 253
1917 - 1979
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 254
1950 - Present
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 255
1852 - 1919
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 256
1684 - 1751
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 257
1967 - Present
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 258
1938 - Present
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 259
1892 - 1942
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 260
1957 - Present
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 261
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), Leiji Matsumoto (1938), Go Nagai (1945), Masashi Kishimoto (1974), Eiichiro Oda (1975), Monkey Punch (1937), Shotaro Ishinomori (1938), Yoshihiro Togashi (1966), and Katsuhiro Otomo (1954).
1928 - 1989
HPI: 76.91
Rank: 1
1955 - Present
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 2
1950 - Present
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 3
1957 - Present
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 4
1938 - Present
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 5
1945 - Present
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 6
1974 - Present
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 7
1975 - Present
HPI: 66.34
Rank: 8
1937 - 2019
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 9
1938 - 1998
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 10
1966 - Present
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 11
1954 - Present
HPI: 65.44
Rank: 12