# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kimiyasu-kudo
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:30:28.344Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kimiyasu-kudo"
name: "Kimiyasu Kudō"
slug: "kimiyasu-kudo"
description: "Kimiyasu Kudo  is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher and the former manager of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball. Known for his longevity as a player, he holds the NPB records for longest career with 29 seasons played, most consecutive seasons with at least one win with 23 and is the oldest pitcher to strike out 10 batters in a game, doing so at the age of 41 years and 11 months. In his career, he recorded 224 wins, a 3.45 ERA and 2,859 strike outs. However, despite all his accolades, he is famously known for having never won the Eiji Sawamura Award, given to Japan's top pitcher."
tagline: "Japanese baseball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kudo_Kimiyasu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1963-05-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           71.14
  momentum:             5.592628027874486
  historical:           6.944198666666667
  currentAttention:     3.543307086614173
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  243
  category: null
totalFollowers: 52000
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/kimiyasukudo_official/"
    handle:    "kimiyasukudo_official"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://find-kimiyasu.jp/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiLrlqt9mfRGeAugoYqON7g"
    handle:    "@kimiyasukudo_official"
    followers: 52000
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimiyasu_Kud%C5%8D"
    title: "Kimiyasu Kudō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%87"
    title: "كيمياسو كودوه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimiyasu_Kud%C5%8D"
    title: "Kimiyasu Kudō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B7%A5%E8%97%A4%E5%85%AC%E5%BA%B7"
    title: "工藤公康"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B7%A5%E8%97%A4%E5%85%AC%E5%BA%B7"
    title: "工藤公康"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B5%AC%EB%8F%84_%EA%B8%B0%EB%AF%B8%EC%95%BC%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "구도 기미야스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q911632"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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