Yu Suzuki
Both of Suzuki's parents were school teachers.  When Suzuki was growing up, he wanted to be a dentist.  But he could not pass the test, so he decided to study computers instead.  In 1983 he started working at Sega.  In 1993 he wrote a famous game called Virtua Fighter.  It was so famous, that it was added to the Smithsonian museum in Washington DC, as an example of an important game.