Names in Animation/Anime
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1. Loren Bouchard
Writer | Bob's Burgers
Loren Bouchard was born in 1970 in the USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Bob's Burgers (2011), The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022) and Central Park (2020). He has been married to Holly Kretschmar since September 3, 2006.
2. Bruce Timm
Animation_department | Batman: The Animated Series
Bruce Timm is an American animator, writer, voice actor and director. He is known for creating Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, Justice League and various installments of the DC Animated Universe. He co-created several DC characters including Harley Quinn and Livewire. He...
3. Sylvain Chomet
Director | Les triplettes de Belleville
Sylvain Chomet was born on November 10, 1963 in Maisons-Laffitte, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines, Île-de-France], France. He is a director and writer, known for The Triplets of Belleville (2003), The Illusionist (2010) and Paris, I Love You (2006).
4. Arthur Rankin Jr.
Producer | The Last Unicorn
Arthur Rankin Jr. was born on July 19, 1924 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and director, known for The Last Unicorn (1982), Willy McBean and His Magic Machine (1965) and The Hobbit (1977). He was married to Olga Karlatos. He died on January 30, 2014 in Harrington Sound, Bermuda.
5. Nate Stevenson
Writer | She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Nate Stevenson is known for She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018), Nimona (2023) and Ron's Gone Wrong (2021). He has been married to Molly Ostertag since September 21, 2019.
6. Molly Ostertag
Writer | The Owl House
Molly Ostertag is known for The Owl House (2020), ThunderCats Roar (2020) and Critical Role (2015). She has been married to Nate Stevenson since September 21, 2019.
7. 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 ...
8. Mamoru Hosoda
Director | Samâ uôzu
Mamoru Hosoda is a Japanese film director and animator. Formerly employed at Toei Animation, he went to work at Madhouse from 2005 to 2011. Hosoda left Madhouse in 2011 to establish his own animation studio, Studio Chizu. He first came to public attention in the early 2000s with the first two films...
9. Don Mancini
Writer | Seed of Chucky
Don Mancini was born on January 25, 1963 in the USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Seed of Chucky (2004), Bride of Chucky (1998) and Child's Play (1988).
10. Domee Shi
Writer | Turning Red
Domee Shi was born on August 19, 1989 in Chongqing, China. She is a writer, known for Turning Red (2022), Inside Out (2015) and Bao (2018).
11. Bill Plympton
Director | Cheatin'
Bill Plympton was born on April 30, 1946 in Portland, Oregon, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Cheatin' (2013), I Married a Strange Person! (1997) and Idiots and Angels (2008).
12. Vivienne Medrano
Writer | Helluva Boss
Vivienne Medrano or Vivziepop is a Salvadoran-American cartoonist, voice actress and writer known for creating Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss and Zoophobia. Ever since she first watched Bambi on VHS, she became an aspiring animator. She likes casting people who were involved in musicals and her ...
13. Kevin Conroy
Actor | Batman: The Killing Joke
Kevin Conroy was born on November 30, 1955 in Westbury, New York. At age 17, Kevin earned a full scholarship to attend Juilliard's drama division, where he studied under actor John Houseman. In 1978, after graduating from Juilliard, he toured with "The Acting Company", Houseman's acting group, and ...
14. Mike Judge
Writer | Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
Mike Judge is an American actor, animator, film director, screenwriter, and television producer.
In 1962, Judge was born in Guayaquil, the largest city of Ecuador and the country's main port. His parents were expatriate Americans. His father was archaeologist William James Judge and his mother was ...
15. Natasha Allegri
Art_department | Bee and PuppyCat
Natasha Allegri was born on June 18, 1986 in Tucson, Arizona, USA. She is a writer, known for Bee and PuppyCat (2013), Bee & Puppycat: Lazy in Space (2022) and Adventure Time (2010).
16. Guillermo del Toro
Writer | El laberinto del fauno
Guillermo del Toro was born October 9, 1964 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Raised by his Catholic grandmother, del Toro developed an interest in filmmaking in his early teens. Later, he learned about makeup and effects from the legendary Dick Smith (The Exorcist (1973)) and worked on making his ...
17. Don Bluth
Director | Anastasia
Don Bluth was one of the chief animators at Disney to come to the mantle after the great one's death. He eventually became the animation director for such films as The Rescuers (1977) and Pete's Dragon (1977). Unfortunately, the quality of animation that Disney was producing at this point was not ...
18. Cas van de Pol
Animation_department | The Ultimate 'SpongeBob SquarePants Movie' Recap Cartoon
Cas van de Pol is known for The Ultimate 'SpongeBob SquarePants Movie' Recap Cartoon (2021), The Ultimate 'Star Wars: A New Hope' Recap Cartoon (2020) and The Ultimate 'Minecraft' Recap Cartoon (2021).
19. Sally Cruikshank
Animation_department | Mannequin
Sally Cruikshank was born in Chatham, New Jersey, USA. She is known for Mannequin (1987), Top Secret! (1984) and Ruthless People (1986). She is married to Jon Davison.
20. Dave Fleischer
Director | Mr. Bug Goes to Town
Dave Fleischer was an American film producer and director of animated films. He co-founded the animation studio Fleischer Studios (1929-1942) with his brother Max Fleischer. Dave is primarily remembered for directing the studio's only two feature films: "Gulliver's Travels" (1939) and "Mr. Bug Goes...
21. Dino Stamatopoulos
Writer | Community
Dino Stamatopoulos was born on December 14, 1964 in Norridge, Illinois, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Community (2009), Mr. Show with Bob and David (1995) and Mary Shelley's Frankenhole (2010).
22. Trey Parker
Music_department | South Park
Trey was born in Conifer, Colorado, on October 19, 1969 to Randy Parker, a geologist, and Sharon Parker, an insurance broker. He has an older sister, Shelley Parker. He met Matt Stone (co-creator of South Park (1997)) while attending the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he had a double ...
23. Matt Stone
Soundtrack | South Park
Matthew Stone is a Jewish-American actor, writer, director, musician and animator who frequently collaborates with Trey Parker. They created and voiced in the South Park franchise. Matt voiced Kyle Broflovski, Kenny McCormick, Butters Stotch and other characters. He and Parker also worked on The ...
24. Tim Burton
Producer | Edward Scissorhands
Timothy Walter Burton was born in Burbank, California, to Jean Rae (Erickson), who owned a cat-themed gift shop, and William Reed Burton, who worked for the Burbank Park and Recreation Department. He spent most of his childhood as a recluse, drawing cartoons, and watching old movies (he was ...
25. Jules Bass
Producer | The Hobbit
Producer, author, and composer, educated at NYU. Until 1960, he worked at a New York advertising agency, and then co-founded a film production company in New York. He joined ASCAP in 1963 and collaborated musically with Edward Thomas and James Polack. His popular-song works include "Pinocchio," "...
26. Aaron McGruder
Writer | The Boondocks
An unlikely firestorm was ignited on the 19th of April, 1999. The Universal Press Syndicate made the largest launch ever of a single comic strip in the history of the printed page when it debuted an off-beat work in more than 160 newspapers that day (and 40 more by year's end). The strip, centering...
27. Hamish Steele
Writer | Dead End: Paranormal Park
Hamish Steele was born on October 18, 1990 in Glastonbury, Somerset, England, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for Dead End: Paranormal Park (2022), Badly Drawn Animals (2015) and The Tall Tales of Urchin (2016).
28. Daria Cohen
Art_department | Hazbin Hotel
Daria Cohen is known for Hazbin Hotel (2019) and Cartoon All-Stars Reanimate (2019).
29. Jim Henson
Soundtrack | The Muppet Show
Jim Henson never thought that he would make a name of himself in puppetry; it was merely a way of getting himself on television. The vehicle that achieved it was Sam and Friends (1955), a late-night puppet show that was on after the 11:00 news in Washington DC. It proved to be very popular and ...
30. 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).
31. Makoto Shinkai
Writer | Suzume no Tojimari
Makoto Shinkai is a Japanese director, writer, producer, animator, editor, cinematographer, voice actor, manga artist and former graphic designer. Shinkai studied Japanese literature at Chuo University where he was a member of juvenile literature club where he drew picture books. In 1999, Shinkai ...
32. Mikkel Mainz Elkjær
Animation_department | Song of the Sea
Mikkel Mainz Elkjær is known for Song of the Sea (2014), Love, Death & Robots (2019) and The Reward: Tales of Alethrion (2015).
34. Seth Rogen
Producer | This Is the End
An actor, comedian and writer, Seth Rogen has come a long way from doing stand-up comedy as a teen.
Rogen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Sandy (Belogus), a social worker, and Mark Rogen, who worked for non-profits. His father is American-born and his mother is Canadian. He is of Russian...
35. Nora Twomey
Producer | WolfWalkers
Partner & Creative Director with Cartoon Saloon. ACADEMY AWARD® & GOLDEN GLOBE Nominated Director.
Nora's passion for visual storytelling began at an early age and has led her to explore the medium of animation with her collaborators in Cartoon Saloon in Kilkenny, Ireland. From the studio's early ...
36. Eric Barone
Composer | Stardew Valley
Eric Barone is known for Stardew Valley (2016) and Paper Puppets (2013).
37. Sam Zelaya
Actor | Wendell & Wild
Sam Zelaya is known for Wendell & Wild (2022) and Poppets (2022).
38. Stan Lee
Producer | Doctor Strange
Stan Lee was an American comic-book writer, editor, and publisher, who was executive vice president and publisher of Marvel Comics.
Stan was born in New York City, to Celia (Solomon) and Jack Lieber, a dress cutter. His parents were Romanian Jewish immigrants. Lee co-created Spider-Man, the Hulk, ...
40. Steven Spielberg
Producer | Schindler's List
One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, ...
41. Chuck Jones
Actor | Gremlins
Starting as a cel washer, Chuck Jones worked his way up to animator and then director at the animation division of Warner Bros. He is famous for creating such beloved cartoon characters as Wile E. Coyote, Henery Hawk, Pepé Le Pew, Marvin the Martian, Ralph Wolf, Road Runner, Sam Sheepdog, Sniffles,...
42. Christopher Lloyd
Actor | Back to the Future
Christopher Lloyd is an American actor with a relatively long career. His better known roles include drug-using taxicab driver Jim Ignatowski in the sitcom Taxi (1978), Klingon Commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), inventor Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the Future ...
43. Neil Patrick Harris
Actor | How I Met Your Mother
Neil Patrick Harris was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on June 15, 1973. His parents, Sheila Gail (Scott) and Ronald Gene Harris, were lawyers and ran a restaurant. He grew up in Ruidoso, New Mexico, a small town 120 miles south of Albuquerque, where he first took up acting in the fourth grade. ...
44. Jane Lynch
Actress | Wreck-It Ralph
Jane Marie Lynch is an American actress, comedian and author. She is known for starring as Sue Sylvester in the musical comedy series Glee (2009-2015), which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award. Lynch also gained recognition for her roles in Christopher Guest's mockumentary films, such as Best in ...
45. Alê Abreu
Director | Perlimps
Alê Abreu is known for Perlimps (2022), Espantalho (1998) and The Boy and the World (2013).
46. Adam West
Actor | Batman
Adam West was born William West Anderson on September 19, 1928 in Walla Walla, Washington, to parents Otto West Anderson, a farmer, and his wife Audrey V. (Speer), an opera singer. At age 10, in 1938, West had a cache of comic books; and starting in 1939, Batman, who appeared in Detective Comics, ...
47. Mark Risley
Director | The Wild Thornberrys
Mark Risley is a producer & director specializing in animated film & television. His work has earned him multiple nominations from The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and in 2003 he won an Emmy for the Nickelodeon television series Rugrats.
Risley's credits feature many popular television ...
48. Stephen J. Anderson
Director | Meet the Robinsons
Stephen J. Anderson was born on June 5, 1970 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is a director, known for Meet the Robinsons (2007), Winnie the Pooh (2011) and The Emperor's New Groove (2000). He has been married to Heather Anderson since March 27, 1993. They have one child.
49. Bob Singer
Animation_department | Jonny Quest
Bob Singer was born on January 26, 1928 in Santa Barbara, California, USA. He is a production designer, known for Jonny Quest (1964), Super Friends (1973) and Charlotte's Web (1973). He was previously married to Esther M. Sonnenshine.
51. Max Winston
Writer | I Live in the Woods
Max Winston is known for I Live in the Woods (2008), SpongeBob SquarePants (1999) and Uncle Grandpa (2010).
52. 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 ...
53. Yuri Norstein
Animation_department | Skazka skazok
Born to Jewish parents and raised in a Moscow suburb, Yuri Norstein painted as a hobby and trained as a carpenter before studying animation. He directed his first film in 1968 and made a series of short films notable for their attention to atmosphere and fine detail, using a multiplane camera to ...
54. David James Armsby
Director | Redone
David James Armsby is known for Redone (2017), Being Pretty (2017) and Don't Feed the Freaks (2018).
55. Don Hertzfeldt
Director | World of Tomorrow
Don Hertzfeldt was born on August 1, 1976 in Fremont, California, USA. He is a director and writer, known for World of Tomorrow (2015), It's Such a Beautiful Day (2011) and The Simpsons (1989).
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