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Shigeru Miyamoto

1952 - Today

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Shigeru Miyamoto (Japanese: 宮本 茂, Hepburn: Miyamoto Shigeru; born November 16, 1952) is a Japanese video game designer, producer and game director at Nintendo, where he has served as one of its representative directors as an executive since 2002. Widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential designers in video games, he is the creator of some of the most acclaimed and best-selling game franchises of all time, including Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, Star Fox and Pikmin. More than 1 billion copies of games featuring franchises created by Miyamoto have been sold. Born in Sonobe, Kyoto, Miyamoto graduated from Kanazawa Municipal College of Industrial Arts. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Shigeru Miyamoto is the 2nd most popular game designer (down from 1st in 2019), the 135th most popular biography from Japan (down from 126th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Game Designer.

Shigeru Miyamoto is most famous for his work on the video game series Super Mario Bros.

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Shigeru Miyamoto ranks 2 out of 77. Before him are Gary Gygax. After him are Lizzie Magie, Markus Persson, Hideo Kojima, Ralph H. Baer, Jeff Kinney, Alexey Pajitnov, Satoru Iwata, Gunpei Yokoi, Gabe Newell, and Toru Iwatani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Shigeru Miyamoto ranks 51. Before him are Cyril Ramaphosa, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Ko Yong-hui, Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, Allan Simonsen, and Jimmy Connors. After him are Christian Clavier, Vahid Halilhodžić, Fuad II of Egypt, Douglas Adams, George Papandreou, and John Goodman.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shigeru Miyamoto ranks 135 out of 6,245. Before him are Ko Arima (1917), Emperor Reigen (1654), Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886), Yukio Tsuda (1917), Masao Ono (1923), and Issei Sagawa (1949). After him are Emperor Go-Kōmyō (1633), Zeami Motokiyo (1363), Jiro Miyake (1900), Usaburo Hidaka (null), Masaru Emoto (1943), and Toshihide Maskawa (1940).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Shigeru Miyamoto ranks 1. After him are Hideo Kojima (1963), Satoru Iwata (1959), Gunpei Yokoi (1941), Toru Iwatani (1955), Satoshi Tajiri (1965), Shigesato Itoi (1948), Masayuki Uemura (1943), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Shinji Mikami (1965), Naoto Ohshima (1964), and Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974).

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