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Keiji Inafune

1965 - Today

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Keiji Inafune (稲船 敬二, Inafune Keiji; born 8 May 1965) is a Japanese video game producer, character designer, game designer, and businessman. In 2009, he was chosen by IGN as one of the top 100 game creators of all time. Starting his career at Capcom in the late 1980s, his job was as an artist and illustrator. The first two games he worked on were the original Street Fighter and Mega Man in 1987. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Keiji Inafune is the 1,966th most popular painter (down from 1,964th in 2024), the 1,921st most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,705th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Japanese Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Keiji Inafune ranks 1,966 out of 2,023. Before him are Rembrandt Peale, Rebecca Solomon, Tom Roberts, Thomas Dewing, Ahmed Al Safi, and Eugene J. Martin. After him are James Thornhill, William Nicholson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, El Kazovsky, Mike Kelley, and Howard Hodgkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Keiji Inafune ranks 464. Before him are Sabine Braun, Michal Šanda, Gerhard Rodax, Bogna Koreng, Johan Rockström, and Richard K. Morgan. After him are Rica Reinisch, Pascal Tayot, Gilles Panizzi, Yoshikazu Isoda, WestBam, and Georgios Bartzokas.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Keiji Inafune ranks 1,921 out of 6,245. Before him are Daisuke Namikawa (1976), Masahiro Iwata (1981), Yosuke Matsumoto (1990), Hiroyuki Sawada (1974), Oh! great (1972), and Eiji Kawashima (1983). After him are Minoru Takenaka (1976), Makoto Takeya (1977), Naomi Munakata (1955), Yoshikazu Isoda (1965), Takehiro Kato (1974), and Christopher Zeeman (1925).

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Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Keiji Inafune ranks 32. Before him are Hiroshi Yoshida (1876), Uemura Shōen (1875), Maruyama Ōkyo (1733), Katsukawa Shunshō (1726), Utagawa Toyokuni (1769), and Hashimoto Gahō (1835).

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