The following are a list of major people who have or are currently working at Nintendo. Some employees may be listed twice due to having multiple professions.

Presidents

Global

• Fusajiro Yamauchi - The founder and first president of Nintendo. (1889-1929)
• Sekiryo Yamauchi - The second president of Nintendo. (1929-1949)
• Hiroshi Yamauchi - Third president; brought company into video game industry. (1949-2002)
• Satoru Iwata - Fourth and current global president. Previously was president of HAL Laboratory. (2002-)

Nintendo of America

• Minoru Arakawa - First president of Nintendo of America.
• Tatsumi Kimishima - Second president of Nintendo of America.
• Reggie Fils-Aime - Third and current president of Nintendo.

Video game designers

Nintendo R&D/EAD

• Shigeru Miyamoto - Current manager of all EAD studios with Takashi Tezuka. Creator of Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Star Fox, Pikmin and Nintendogs.
• Takashi Tezuka - Current manager of all EAD studios with Shigeru Miyamoto.
• Eiji Aonuma - Current manager of Nintendo EAD 3 and director of various The Legend of Zelda titles.
• Yoshiaki Koizumi - Creative director of Nintendo EAD Tokyo games. Director of Super Mario Sunshine, Donkey Kong Jungle Beat and Super Mario Galaxy.
• Katsuya Eguchi - Director of Star Fox, Animal Crossing and Wii Sports.
• Gunpei Yokoi (deceased) - Supervised various Nintendo R&D1 video games.
• Yoshio Sakamoto - Creator of many Nintendo games. Manager of Nintendo SPD Group 1

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Retro Studios

Nintendo Software Technology

Second parties

• Satoshi Tajiri - Creator of Pokemon.
• Shigesato Itoi - Creator of Earthbound series.
• Masahiro Sakurai - Creator of Kirby, and Super Smash Bros.
• Ryuta Kawashima - Creator of Brain Age series.

Hardware manufactures

• Masayuki Uemura - Designer of the Famicom/Nintendo Entertainment System.
• Gunpei Yokoi (deceased) - Creator of Game & Watch, Game Boy, Virtual Boy.

Music Compossers

• Koji Kondo - Composer of Music tracks, including almost every Mario and Zelda game.

Localizers

• Leslie Swan - Nintendo Treehouse manager, translator.
• William Trinen - Nintendo Treehouse manager, translator.
• Nate Bihldorff - Nintendo Treehouse manager, translator.

Voice Actors

• Charles Martinet - Voice of Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, the Baby Mario & luigi, and others.
• Kazumi Totaka - Voice of Yoshi, Professor E. Gadd, and Yoob.
• Takashi Nagasako - Voice of Donkey Kong in the Donkey Kong Series, and Ganondorf from the Legend of Zelda series.
• Nobuyuki Hiyama - Voice of adult Link in the Zelda Series, and Kain from the Fire Emblem series.
• Scott Burns - Voice of Bowser.