# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hiroyuki-yamaga
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:14:06.084Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hiroyuki-yamaga"
name: "Hiroyuki Yamaga"
slug: "hiroyuki-yamaga"
description: "Hiroyuki Yamaga  is a Japanese anime director and producer, and a founding member of the animation studio Gainax. He is best known for directing the film Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (1987) at age 24, directing Mahoromatic (2001), Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (2002), and an episode of Gurren Lagann (2007). Yamaga also wrote the screenplay for Gundam 0080 (1989)."
tagline: "Japanese anime director and producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hiroyuki_Yamaga_at_FanimeCon_2010-05-29_3.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1962-03-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.83
  momentum:             10.49307493344602
  historical:           7.35318
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/hiroyuki.yamaga.14"
    handle:    "hiroyuki.yamaga.14"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945293/"
    handle:    "nm0945293"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E8%B4%BA%E5%8D%9A%E4%B9%8B"
    title: "山贺博之"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%83%D9%89_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%A7"
    title: "هيرويوكى ياماجا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Yamaga"
    title: "Hiroyuki Yamaga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Yamaga"
    title: "Hiroyuki Yamaga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Yamaga"
    title: "Hiroyuki Yamaga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E8%B3%80%E5%8D%9A%E4%B9%8B"
    title: "山賀博之"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%BC%EB%A7%88%EA%B0%80_%ED%9E%88%EB%A1%9C%EC%9C%A0%ED%82%A4"
    title: "야마가 히로유키"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5771603"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6051249"
    title: "Hiroyuki Yamaga"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump