# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/taro-kudo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:57:09.117Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/taro-kudo"
name: "Tarō Kudō"
slug: "taro-kudo"
description: "Taro Kudo  is a Japanese video game designer and video game music composer. He is best known for his work on the Mario role-playing games. He began his career working for Konami and Square in the 1990s, then joined fellow ex-Square designers at Love-de-Lic in 1996, where he designed UFO: A Day in the Life. Kudo worked as company director for Vanpool prior to its disestablishment."
tagline: "Japanese composer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           48.07
  momentum:             21.00340136054422
  historical:           7.900542666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/5837410"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taro_Kudo"
    title: "Taro Kudo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88"
    title: "تارو کودو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taro_Kudo"
    title: "Taro Kudo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar%C5%8D_Kud%C5%8D"
    title: "Tarō Kudō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B7%A5%E8%97%A4%E5%A4%AA%E9%83%8E"
    title: "工藤太郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taro_Kudo"
    title: "Taro Kudo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taro_Kudo"
    title: "Taro Kudo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5fed8210-460d-430e-90de-74c74f2f2086"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3981153"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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