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宮本茂（みやもと しげる、1952-）は、『スーパーマリオ』『ゼルダの伝説』などを生み出した任天堂のゲームクリエイター。遊び心と驚きを重んじる作風で、家庭用ゲームを世界的な娯楽へと押し上げた。
Shigeru Miyamoto (born November 16, 1952, in Sonobe, Kyoto Prefecture — now part of Nantan City) is a Japanese video game creator. He studied industrial design at Kanazawa Municipal College of Industrial Arts and joined Nintendo in 1977. At first he designed toys and arcade cabinets, but he made his mark with the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong, in which he created the hero “Jumpman” — later renamed “Mario.”
With works such as Super Mario Bros. (1985) and The Legend of Zelda (1986), he rewrote the history of video games, founding new grammars of play: the side-scrolling action game and the vast world of open-ended adventure. He is known for prizing “playfulness” and “surprise” above all, and for designing in the joy of players discovering things for themselves.
He went on to create Star Fox, Pikmin, and titles for the Wii, helping turn home video games into a global form of entertainment. He was named a Chevalier of France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2006 and a Person of Cultural Merit in Japan in 2019. He remains involved in the craft as a Representative Director of Nintendo and, since 2015, its Fellow.