People
by danielbarkp | created - 24 Feb 2021 | updated - 2 months ago | Public
1. Rebecca Sugar
Writer | Steven Universe
Rebecca Sugar is an American animator, television writer, television producer, and singer-songwriter from Maryland. Her primary claims to fame are serving as the show creator of the hit animated series "Steven Universe" (2013-2019), and one of main writers and storyboard artists for the animated ...
2. Toby Fox
Writer | Undertale
Toby Fox is a game developer and composer, most well know for his work on Undertale (2015) and for being a composer on Homestuck (2009) and Hiveswap (2017).
He was previously know as Radiation, is the founder of the Homestuck Music Contribution club and a contributor to the A Profound Waste of Time ...
3. Felix Kjellberg
Writer | PewDiePie
Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg was born on the 24 of October, 1989 in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is a Swedish YouTube video game commentator under the alias name, PewDiePie. He graduated from Göteborgs Högre Samskola and then went to pursue a degree in Industrial Economics and Technology Management at ...
4. Mark Fischbach
Writer | Markiplier
Mark Edward Fischbach, known by his Internet persona and main YouTube username Markiplier, is an American Internet and YouTube personality star. Originally from Honolulu, Hawaii, Fischbach began his career in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is currently based in Los Angeles, California. Generally, he gained ...
5. Seán McLoughlin
Actor | Jacksepticeye
Seán McLoughlin was born on February 7, 1990 in Westmeath, Ireland. He is an actor and writer, known for Jacksepticeye (2012), Free Guy (2021) and Slime Rancher (2016).
6. George Miller
Actor | The Filthy Frank Show
George Miller is known for The Filthy Frank Show (2011), Worst Film Ever (Christmas Special) (2014) and Filthy Frank Final Full Lore Movie (2018).
7. Jon Jafari
Soundtrack | JonTron
Jonathan Aryan Jafari, known by his internet pseudonym JonTron, is an American comedian, reviewer, and internet personality. He reviews video games, movies, and television shows of varying genres in a retrospective and comedic manner in his YouTube web series JonTron. Jafari was co-creator and ...
8. Arin Hanson
Writer | Sequelitis
Born January 6th, 1987 to Lloyd and Maurette Hanson, Arin Hanson showed early signs in a passion for animation when he created several animated shorts for a website titled Newgrounds.com. Armed with a trademark sense of humor and animation style, Hanson's work became part of the websites history, ...
9. Hideaki Anno
Writer | Shin Gojira
Hideaki Anno was born on May 22, 1960 in Ube, Japan. He is a writer and director, known for Shin Godzilla (2016), Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007) and The Wind Rises (2013). He has been married to Moyoco Anno since March 26, 2002.
10. Masaaki Yuasa
Writer | Mind Game
Masaaki Yuasa was born on March 16, 1965 in Fukuoka, Japan. He is a writer and director, known for Mind Game (2004), Lu Over the Wall (2017) and Adventure Time (2010).
11. Satoshi Kon
Writer | Tôkyô goddofâzâzu
Satoshi Kon was born in 1963. He studied at the Musashino College of the Arts. He began his career as a Manga artist. He then moved to animation and worked as a background artist on many films (including Roujin Z (1991) by 'Katsuhiro Otomo'). Then, in 1995, he wrote an episode of the anthology film ...
12. Clint Eastwood
Actor | Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...
13. Angelina Jolie
Actress | Maleficent
Angelina Jolie is an Academy Award-winning actress who rose to fame after her role in Girl, Interrupted (1999), playing the title role in the "Lara Croft" blockbuster movies, as well as Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), Salt (2010) and Maleficent (2014). Off-screen, Jolie has become ...
14. Akira Toriyama
Writer | Dragonball Evolution
Akira Toriyama is a Japanese manga writer, manga artist, and character designer for video games. He has been a working artist since 1978. In manga, he is better known for creating the science fiction comedy series "Dr. Slump" (1980-1984) and the martial-arts-themed series "Dragon Ball" (1984-1995)....
15. Eiichirô Oda
Writer | One Piece
As a kid, Oda was inspired by vikings and aspired to become a manga artist. He later submitted a character named Pandaman for Yudetamago's classic wrestling manga "Kinnikuman", who was not only used in a chapter of the manga but would later return as a recurring cameo character in Oda's own works. ...
16. Satoshi Tajiri
Writer | Pokémon: Detective Pikachu
Satoshi Tajiri was born on August 28, 1965 in Tokyo, Japan. He is a writer and director, known for Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019), Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back (1998) and Pokémon (1997).
17. Jun'ichi Masuda
Writer | Pokémon: Detective Pikachu
Jun'ichi Masuda is known for Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019), Pokémon Crystal Version (2000) and Pokémon Black Version (2010).
18. Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamato has been helping create games for Nintendo since 1981. In the late 1970s Nintendo was going bankrupt. Myamato then made two characters, Donkey Kong and Mario (then called Jumpman), for the game Donkey Kong (1981). He has been the supervisor of many games, like the Mario and Zelda ...
19. Masahiro Sakurai
Director | Dairantou sumasshu burazâzu for Wii U
Masahiro Sakurai was born on August 3, 1970 in Musashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan. He is a writer and director, known for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (2014), Kirby's Dream Land (1992) and Super Smash Bros. (1999). He has been married to Michiko Sakurai since June 2008.
20. Glen Keane
Animation_department | Beauty and the Beast
Glen Keane was born on April 13, 1954 in Abington, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a producer, known for Beauty and the Beast (1991), Tangled (2010) and Over the Moon (2020). He has been married to Linda Hesselroth since August 3, 1975. They have two children.
21. Walt Disney
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Flora Disney (née Call) and Elias Disney, a Canadian-born farmer and businessperson. He had Irish, German, and English ancestry. Walt moved with his parents to Kansas City at age seven, where he spent the majority of ...
22. Milt Kahl
Animation_department | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Milt Kahl was a veteran animator from San Francisco. He became one of "Disney's Nine Old Men", a board of supervising animators who headed the production staff of the Walt Disney Animation Studios from c. 1945 to 1977.
In 1909, Kahl was born in San Francisco. His parents were the saloon bartender ...
23. Richard Williams
Animation_department | Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The son of commercial artists, Richard Williams studied at the Ontario College of Art and first worked in animation for Disney Studios in Burbank. His tenure there had a strong influence on his later work but proved somewhat stifling to his own creative flair. In 1955, aged 22, Williams moved to ...
24. Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Writer | Akira
Katsuhiro Ôtomo is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter and film director. He is best known as the creator of the manga Akira and its animated film adaptation.
In 1979, after writing multiple short-stories for the magazine Action, Otomo created his first science-fiction work, titled Fireball. ...
25. Hayao Miyazaki
Writer | Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan's greatest animation directors. The entertaining plots, compelling characters, and breathtaking visuals in his films have earned him international renown from critics as well as public recognition within Japan.
Miyazaki started his career in 1963 as an animator at the ...
26. Masashi Kishimoto
Writer | Naruto: Shippûden
Masashi Kishimoto was born on November 8, 1974 in Nagi, Japan. He is a writer and producer, known for Naruto: Shippuden (2007), Naruto and The Last: Naruto the Movie (2014).
27. Quentin Tarantino
Writer | Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance, California, when he was four years old.
In January of...
28. Yô Yoshinari
Animation_department | Shin seiki Evangelion Gekijô-ban: Air/Magokoro wo, kimi ni
Yô Yoshinari was born on May 6, 1971 in Tokyo, Japan. He is a director and writer, known for Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997), Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022) and Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999).
animator
29. Takafumi Hori
Animation_department | Samâ uôzu
Takafumi Hori is known for Summer Wars (2009), Suzume (2022) and Millennium Actress (2001).
animator
30. J.K. Rowling
Writer | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
Joanne Rowling was born in Yate, near Bristol, a few miles south of a town called Dursley ("Harry Potter"'s Muggle-family). Her father Peter Rowling was an engineer for Rolls Royce in Bristol at this time. Her mother, Anne, was half-French and half-Scottish. They met on a train as it left King's ...
31. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Producer | Honor Diaries
Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born on November 13, 1969 in Mogadishu, Somalia. She is a writer and producer, known for Honor Diaries (2013), Submission: Part I (2004) and De leugen (2010). She has been married to Niall Ferguson since September 10, 2011.
32. Daniel Sloss
Writer | Daniel Sloss: X
Daniel Sloss is an internationally acclaimed Scottish comedian, who has toured in 50 countries, released 2 comedy specials for Netflix ("DARK" and "Jigsaw", 2018) and "Daniel Sloss: X" on HBO (USA & Canada, 2019). He has appeared on 'Conan' multiple times, as well as Comedy Central's 'Drunk History...
33. Jordan B. Peterson
Self | What Is a Woman?
Jordan B. Peterson was born on June 12, 1962 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is a writer and producer, known for What Is a Woman? (2022), Assorted teachings of Jordan Peterson (2019) and Lady Ballers (2023). He has been married to Tammy Peterson since 1989. They have two children.
34. Slavoj Zizek
Actor | Bliss
Slavoj Zizek was born on March 21, 1949 in Llubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia [now Slovenia]. He is a writer and actor, known for Bliss (2021), The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012).
35. Joe Rogan
Writer | The Joe Rogan Experience
Joe Rogan was born on August 11, 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He is a podcaster and writer, known for The Joe Rogan Experience (2009), NewsRadio (1995) and Zookeeper (2011). He has been married to Jessica Rogan since 2009. They have three children.
36. Amy Poehler
Actress | Inside Out
Amy Meredith Poehler was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to high school teachers Eileen Frances (Milmore) and William Grinstead Poehler. Her brother is comedian Greg Poehler. She is of Irish (from her mother) and English, Irish, German, and Portuguese (from her father) descent. Amy was first ...
37. Tina Fey
Actress | Date Night
Elizabeth Stamatina Fey was born in 1970 in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, just west of Philadelphia, to Xenobia "Jeanne" (Xenakes), a brokerage employee, and Donald Henry Fey, who wrote grant proposals for universities. Her mother is Greek, born in Piraeus, while her father had German, Northern Irish,...
38. Kristen Schaal
Actress | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Kristen Schaal is an American actress, voice artist, writer, and comedian. She is best known for her roles as Mel on the HBO series Flight of the Conchords, Louise Belcher on FOX animated comedy Bob's Burgers, and Mabel Pines on Gravity Falls. Other notable roles include her appearances as a ...
39. Ellen DeGeneres
Producer | Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Emmy-winning talk show host Ellen Lee DeGeneres was born in Metairie, Louisiana, a New Orleans suburb. She is the daughter of Betty DeGeneres (née Elizabeth Jane Pfeffer), a speech therapist, and Elliott Everett DeGeneres, Jr., an insurance agent. Her brother is musician and producer Vance DeGeneres...
40. Roy Haylock
Actor | Hurricane Bianca
Roy Haylock , better known by the stage name Bianca Del Rio, is an American drag queen, comedian, actor, and costume designer best known for winning the sixth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. New York magazine named Del Rio number one of the top 100 Most Powerful Drag Queens in America in June 2019.
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41. Danny Noriega
Soundtrack | Laganja's Dance School
Danny Noriega was born on September 29, 1989 in Azusa, California, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Laganja's Dance School (2019), Adore Delano: I Look Fuckin Cool (2014) and Adore Delano: Take Me There (2016).
42. Alex Hirsch
Actor | Gravity Falls
Alex Hirsch is an animator, television writer, and voice actor from Piedmont, California. His primary claim to fame is serving as the show creator for the hit animated series "Gravity Falls" (2012-2016), a mystery comedy series where twin protagonists investigate the local mysteries of a strange ...
43. Eric André
Actor | The Eric Andre Show
Eric Samuel André is an American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, television host and writer. He is best known as the creator, host, and co-writer of the Adult Swim comedy series The Eric Andre Show (2012-present). He also played Mike on the FXX series Man Seeking Woman (2015-2017) and voiced ...
44. Ethan Klein
Producer | h3h3Productions
Ethan Klein is known for his satirical YouTube videos which he makes alongside his wife, Hila Klein. Their most popular video is "VAPE NATION" with over 18 million views. In 2017 Ethan and Hila started their own weekly podcast, which often features subjects of their videos, as well as various ...
45. Hila Klein
Producer | H3 Podcast
Hila Klein was born on December 12, 1987 in Tel Aviv, Israel. She is a producer and writer, known for H3 Podcast (2016), h3h3Productions (2013) and Payday 2 (2013). She has been married to Ethan Klein since October 12, 2012. They have two children.
46. Lisa Lampanelli
Actress | Drillbit Taylor
Lisa Lampenelli is one of the most high-profile insult comics. Though actually born in Connecticut, she is identified as a New Yorker, where she built up her career on the stand-up comic circuit. She is known for her outrageous pot shots at celebrities as well as references to her own weight and ...
47. Nicki Minaj
Actress | The Other Woman
Nicki Minaj was born Onika Tanya Maraj on December 8, 1982 in St. James, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago and raised in Queens, New York City, New York. She grew up in a troubled family with a father that was a drug addict who later changed after he checked into rehab and started going to church. ...
48. Avril Lavigne
Actress | Over the Hedge
Avril Lavigne was born on September 27, 1984 in Belleville, Ontario, Canada, to Judith-Rosanne (Loshaw) and Jean-Claude Joseph Lavigne. Her ancestry is French-Canadian, Polish, English, Irish, and Scottish. At sixteen, she moved to Manhattan and began work on her debut album. She dropped out of ...
49. Takashi Murakami
Producer | Mememe no kurage
Takashi Murakami was born on February 1, 1962 in Tokyo, Japan. He is a producer and director, known for Jellyfish Eyes (2013), Jellyfish Eyes 2 and To LOVE-Ru (2008).
50. Toshiyuki Inoue
Animation_department | Kôkaku kidôtai
Toshiyuki Inoue is known for Ghost in the Shell (1995), Akira (1988) and Paprika (2006).
Animator
51. Yutaka Nakamura
Animation_department | Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no tobira
Yutaka Nakamura was born on December 22, 1967 in Fukuoka, Japan. He is a director, known for Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001), Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) and Escaflowne: The Movie (2000).
Animator
52. Trixie Mattel
Actor | Trixie Mattel: Yellow Cloud
Trixie Mattel was born on August 23, 1989 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Trixie Mattel: Yellow Cloud (2019), Wish You Were Queer and American Horror Story (2011).
53. Katya Zamolodchikova
Actor | Hurricane Bianca: From Russia with Hate
Katya Zamolodchikova was born on May 1, 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Hurricane Bianca: From Russia with Hate (2018), Room 104 (2017) and Sebastian (2017).
54. Dede Allen
Editor | Dog Day Afternoon
Dede Allen started her career as a messenger at Columbia Pictures. She graduated to being a sound cutter and assistant editor. Her first job as a film editor was for director Robert Wise, and since then, she has achieved a reputation as one of the most stylish and creative editors in the American ...
55. Johane Matte
Art_department | Rise of the Guardians
Johane Matte is known for Rise of the Guardians (2012), Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia (2016) and Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011).
56. Justin Roiland
Actor | Rick and Morty
Mark Justin Roiland is an American voice actor, animator, writer, producer, and director. He is best known as the co-creator of Adult Swim's Rick and Morty and its subsequent franchise. He voices the show's title characters Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith. In addition to Rick and Morty, Roiland is the...
58. Dana Terrace
Writer | The Owl House
Dana Terrace is an American animator, director, writer, producer, storyboard artist, and voice actress. She is most known for creating Disney's The Owl House, as well as being a writer, storyboard artist, and doing additional voices in The Owl House. She's also known for working as a director on ...
59. Lauren Faust
Writer | Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Lauren Johanna Faust is an American animator, writer, storyboard artist and director. She developed My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, which had a good following among males. She also worked on The Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, The Iron Giant, Wander Over Yonder, Kid ...
60. Genndy Tartakovsky
Producer | Samurai Jack
Genndy Tartakovsky was born and raised in Moscow, USSR. He and his family moved to Chicago, IL when he was 7 years old, after his father defected to the US. His interest in comic books and animation led him to study animation at CalArts in Los Angeles. While he was there he produced two student ...
61. Craig McCracken
Writer | Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Craig McCracken has been interested in drawing and animation since the age of three. Some of his sources of inspiration are Japanese anime, Super Friends (1973), Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986) and Little Golden Books. After briefly considering a career as a comic book illustrator, McCracken studied ...
62. Pendleton Ward
Writer | Adventure Time
Born in 1982 in San Antonio, Texas, Ward, the youngest of 3 brothers, was raised by his mother Bettie Ward, an artist and daughter of a Texas oil rancher. He never met his father. He would often draw flipbooks Andy comic books with his friend Alex "the Logdog" Coates.
Ward attended CalArts, where he...
63. Jamie Hewlett
Writer | Tank Girl
Jamie Hewlett was born on April 3, 1968 in England, UK. He is a director and writer, known for Tank Girl (1995), Cloverfield (2008) and Wasabi (2001). He has been married to Emma de Caunes since September 10, 2011.
64. Kazuto Nakazawa
Assistant_director | Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Kazuto Nakazawa was born on March 4, 1968 in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Kazuto is a director and writer, known for Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), B: The Beginning (2018) and Samurai Champloo (2004).
animator
65. Temple Grandin
Writer | Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin was born on August 29, 1947 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She is a writer and actress, known for Temple Grandin (2010), High Maintenance (2016) and fridAy (2021).
66. David Attenborough
Self | Blue Planet II
Born 8 May 1926, the younger brother of actor Lord Richard Attenborough. He never expressed a wish to act and, instead, studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, graduating in 1947, the year he began his two years National Service in the Royal Navy. In 1952, he joined BBC Television at ...
67. Ray Harryhausen
Actor | Spies Like Us
When it comes to motion-picture special effects, there is only one name that personifies movie magic: Ray Harryhausen. From his debut films with George Pal to his final film, Harryhausen imbued magic and visual strength to motion-picture special effects as no other technician has, before or since.
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68. Kumiko Takahashi
Animation_department | Jûbê ninpûchô
Kumiko Takahashi is known for Ninja Scroll (1993), Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) and Five Star Stories (1989).
69. Duncan Trussell
Actor | The Midnight Gospel
Duncan Trussell was born on April 20, 1974. He is an actor and writer, known for The Midnight Gospel (2020), Galaxy Cabin (2007) and Stupidface (2007).
70. Heath McIvor
Actor | Randy Feltface: Randy Writes a Novel
Heath McIvor is known for Randy Writes a Novel (2018), Sammy J & Randy in Ricketts Lane (2015) and Randy Feltface: Purple Privilege (2021).
71. Don Hahn
Producer | Maleficent
Don Hahn was born on November 26, 1955 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Maleficent (2014), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) and The Lion King (1994). He has been married to Denise Meara-Hahn since June 12, 1987. They have one child.
72. Peter Ramsey
Director | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Peter Ramsey is the director of Dreamworks Animation's 2012 feature film "Rise Of The Guardians". He also directed the Halloween TV special, "Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space" as well as serving as a story artist on several of Dreamworks Animation's feature films. Prior to ...
73. Yôko Shimomura
Soundtrack | Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Yôko Shimomura was born on October 19, 1967 in Hyogo, Japan. She is a composer, known for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018), Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope (2022) and Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016).
74. Atsuko Nishida
Art_department | Gekijôban Poketto Monsutâ: Myûtsû no Gyakushû
Atsuko Nishida is known for Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back (1998), Pokémon: Yellow Version - Special Pikachu Edition (1998) and Pokémon 3 the Movie: Spell of the Unown (2000).
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