# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leiji-matsumoto
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:14:41.257Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leiji-matsumoto"
name: "Leiji Matsumoto"
slug: "leiji-matsumoto"
description: "Leiji Matsumoto  was a Japanese manga artist, and creator of several anime and manga series. His widow Miyako Maki is also a manga artist."
tagline: "Japanese manga artist (1938–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leiji_Matsumoto_-_Salon_du_Livre_Gen%C3%A8ve%2C_3rd_May_2014_3_-_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1938-01-25"
deathDate: "2023-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.55
  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.527468
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    title: "Leiji Matsumoto"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump