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Japanese video game designer (born )

The native form of this personal name is Sakurai Masahiro. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Masahiro Sakurai (桜井 政博, Sakurai Masahiro, born August 3, ) is a Japanese video game director and game designer best known as the creator of the Kirby and Super Smash Bros. series. Apart from his work on those series, he also led the design of Meteos in and directed Kid Icarus: Uprising in

Formerly an employee of HAL Laboratory, Sakurai left the company in and in with his wife Michiko Sakurai (also ex-HAL Laboratory) founded their company Sora Ltd.^[a], under which they work on a freelance basis. He was also an author of a weekly column for Famitsu magazine from to , and has done voice acting work in some of his games, most notably providing the voice of King Dedede in Kirby The Crystal Shards and the Super Smash Bros. series. From to , Sakurai ran an educational Yo