Shigeru Miyamoto

Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japanese video game designer, producer and game director at Nintendo, where he serves 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.

16 November 1952

Born on the same birth day (16 November): Brooke Elliott • Donna McKechnie • Eddie Condon • Francesco Cattani da Diacceto • Francis M. Fesmire • Georg Ludwig Cancrin • Joan Lindsay • Joanna Pettet • Jónas Hallgrímsson • Kari Lehtonen • Lawrence Tibbett • Oswald Mosley • Paul Foytack • Paul Hindemith • Stephen Critchlow

Born in the same month (November 1952): Bappi Lahiri • Crescent Dragonwagon • Cyril Ramaphosa • David Emanuel (fashion designer) • David Petraeus • Delroy Lindo • Dimitra Galani • Jeff Fahey • Jim Cummings • John Denny • John Parr • Lorna Luft • Maxine Nightingale • Rick Atkinson • Ron Lee • S. Epatha Merkerson • Valeriy Zuyev