# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shigeru-miyamoto
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:06:48.578Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shigeru-miyamoto"
name: "Shigeru Miyamoto"
slug: "shigeru-miyamoto"
description: "Shigeru Miyamoto  is a Japanese video game designer, producer, game director and filmmaker 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."
tagline: "Japanese video game designer (born 1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shigeru_Miyamoto_20150610_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-11-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             11.07851143257116
  historical:           27.037464
  currentAttention:     61.54728573650645
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump