# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tetsuya-nomura
# Generated: 2026-09-02T03:29:06.846Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tetsuya-nomura"
name: "Tetsuya Nomura"
slug: "tetsuya-nomura"
description: "Tetsuya Nomura  is a Japanese video game artist, designer, producer, and director working for Square Enix. He was hired by Square initially as a monster designer for Final Fantasy V (1992), before being shifted towards secondary character designer alongside Yoshitaka Amano for Final Fantasy VI (1994). Final Fantasy VII (1997) had him working in the original story alongside Hironobu Sakaguchi, and marked his debut as the lead character designer, a capacity he would retain for several future installments of the series, as well as other Square Enix titles such as The Bouncer and The World Ends with You. He also created the characters Cactuar, Gilgamesh, and Tonberry."
tagline: "Japanese video game designer"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
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  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1970-10-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           24.600132
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 190
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump