1954 - Today
Yuji Horii (堀井 雄二, Horii Yūji) (also written as Yuuji Horii; born January 6, 1954) is a Japanese video game designer and scenario writer best known as the creator of the Dragon Quest series of role-playing games, supervising and writing the scenario for Chrono Trigger, as well as the first visual novel adventure game Portopia Serial Murder Case. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuji Horii has received more than 200,771 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Yuji Horii is the 35th most popular game designer (down from 25th in 2019), the 1,373rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,102nd in 2019) and the 17th most popular Japanese Game Designer.
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Among game designers, Yuji Horii ranks 35 out of 46. Before him are Yoshinori Kitase, Roberta Williams, Ron Gilbert, Yuji Naka, Dave Arneson, and Kazunori Yamauchi. After him are Hideki Kamiya, Al Lowe, Mark Cerny, Ed Boon, Scott Cawthon, and Koji Igarashi.
1966 - Present
HPI: 55.15
Rank: 29
1953 - Present
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 30
1964 - Present
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 31
1965 - Present
HPI: 55.05
Rank: 32
1947 - 2009
HPI: 54.84
Rank: 33
1967 - Present
HPI: 54.79
Rank: 34
1954 - Present
HPI: 54.58
Rank: 35
1970 - Present
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 36
1946 - Present
HPI: 54.09
Rank: 37
1964 - Present
HPI: 53.87
Rank: 38
1964 - Present
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 39
1971 - Present
HPI: 53.24
Rank: 40
1968 - Present
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 41
Among people born in 1954, Yuji Horii ranks 423. Before him are Piero Gros, Alex English, Hans-Henrik Ørsted, Christoph Ransmayr, George Galloway, and Aed Carabao. After him are Michael Shermer, Donald Petrie, David Paterson, Thomas Mavros, Vasily Tsibliyev, and Michael Patrick King.
1954 - Present
HPI: 54.77
Rank: 417
1954 - Present
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 418
1954 - Present
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 419
1954 - Present
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 420
1954 - Present
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 421
1954 - Present
HPI: 54.61
Rank: 422
1954 - Present
HPI: 54.58
Rank: 423
1954 - Present
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 424
1954 - Present
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 425
1954 - Present
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 426
1954 - Present
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 427
1954 - Present
HPI: 54.48
Rank: 428
1954 - Present
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 429
Among people born in Japan, Yuji Horii ranks 1,373 out of 5,560. Before him are Jong Tae-se (1984), Yukio Edano (1964), Nobuhiko Okamoto (1986), Sugao Kambe (1961), Norio Sasaki (1958), and Yahiro Kazama (1961). After him are Hiroshi Kaneda (1953), Kazuki Nakajima (1985), Yuichi Nakamura (1980), Noritake Takahara (1951), Seiko Hashimoto (1964), and Kana Hanazawa (1989).
1984 - Present
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 1,367
1964 - Present
HPI: 54.67
Rank: 1,368
1986 - Present
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 1,369
1961 - Present
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 1,370
1958 - Present
HPI: 54.63
Rank: 1,371
1961 - Present
HPI: 54.61
Rank: 1,372
1954 - Present
HPI: 54.58
Rank: 1,373
1953 - Present
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 1,374
1985 - Present
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 1,375
1980 - Present
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 1,376
1951 - Present
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 1,377
1964 - Present
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 1,378
1989 - Present
HPI: 54.50
Rank: 1,379
Among game designers born in Japan, Yuji Horii ranks 17. Before him are Masahiro Sakurai (1970), Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974), Eiji Aonuma (1963), Yoshinori Kitase (1966), Yuji Naka (1965), and Kazunori Yamauchi (1967). After him are Hideki Kamiya (1970), Koji Igarashi (1968), and Naoto Ohshima (1964).
1970 - Present
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 11
1974 - Present
HPI: 56.80
Rank: 12
1963 - Present
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 13
1966 - Present
HPI: 55.15
Rank: 14
1965 - Present
HPI: 55.05
Rank: 15
1967 - Present
HPI: 54.79
Rank: 16
1954 - Present
HPI: 54.58
Rank: 17
1970 - Present
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 18
1968 - Present
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 19
1964 - Present
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 20