# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/toru-iwatani
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:24:36.579Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/toru-iwatani"
name: "Tōru Iwatani"
slug: "toru-iwatani"
description: "Tōru Iwatani  is a Japanese video game designer who spent much of his career working for Namco. He is best known and commemorated for being the creator of the arcade game Pac-Man (1980). In 2009, he was chosen by IGN as one of the top 100 game creators of all time."
tagline: "Japanese video game designer, creator of Pac-Man (born 1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Toru_Iwatani_Gamelab_Barcelona_2015_(crop).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1955-01-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.89
  momentum:             4.366838574246906
  historical:           22.11553466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1136565/"
    handle:    "nm1136565"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Տորու Իվատանի"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Toru Iwatani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Иватани, Тору"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Toru Iwatani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tōru Iwatani"
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    title: "Toru Iwatani"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump