COMIC ARTIST

Akira Toriyama

1955 - 2024

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Akira Toriyama (Japanese: 鳥山明, Hepburn: Toriyama Akira; April 5, 1955 – March 1, 2024) was a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He came to be regarded as one of the most influential and important authors in the history of manga, authoring highly influential and popular series, particularly Dragon Ball. Toriyama first achieved mainstream recognition for creating the manga series Dr. Slump, for which he earned the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen/shōjo. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Akira Toriyama is the 5th most popular comic artist, the 47th most popular biography from Japan (up from 70th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

Akira Toriyama is most famous for his manga series, Dragon Ball.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Akira Toriyama ranks 5 out of 226. Before him are Stan Lee, Hergé, René Goscinny, and Osamu Tezuka. After him are Charles M. Schulz, Albert Uderzo, Morris, Frank Miller, Joseph Barbera, Carl Barks, and Hugo Pratt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Akira Toriyama ranks 18. Before him are Bill Paxton, Jair Bolsonaro, Tim Berners-Lee, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, and Ornella Muti. After him are Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Willem Dafoe, Mo Yan, Ludovico Einaudi, Isabelle Adjani, and Jigme Singye Wangchuck. Among people deceased in 2024, Akira Toriyama ranks 22. Before him are Daniel Kahneman, Princess Birgitta of Sweden, Anouk Aimée, Arno Allan Penzias, Ram Narayan, and Hassan Nasrallah. After him are Françoise Hardy, Louis Gossett Jr., Arnold Rüütel, Sven-Göran Eriksson, Paul Alexander, and Thomas P. Stafford.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Akira Toriyama ranks 47 out of 6,245. Before him are Gichin Funakoshi (1868), Sasaki Kojirō (1583), Osamu Tezuka (1928), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147), and Morihei Ueshiba (1883). After him are Sakamoto Ryōma (1836), Takeshi Kitano (1947), Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159), Takeda Shingen (1521), Yasujirō Ozu (1903), and Emperor Ninkō (1800).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Akira Toriyama ranks 2. Before him are Osamu Tezuka (1928). After him are Rumiko Takahashi (1957), Tsugumi Ohba (1950), Go Nagai (1945), Leiji Matsumoto (1938), Kentaro Miura (1966), Eiichiro Oda (1975), Naoki Urasawa (1960), Hirohiko Araki (1960), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), and Shotaro Ishinomori (1938).

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