





The Most Famous
Engineers from Japan
Top 7 Engineers
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Japanese Engineers of all time. This list of famous Japanese Engineers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1

Tsutomu Yamaguchi
1916 - 2010
HPI 71.1643 langsTsutomu Yamaguchi was most famous for being the only person to survive the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- #2

Jiro Horikoshi
1903 - 1982
HPI 69.8826 langsJiro Horikoshi is most famous for designing the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter plane.
- #3

Masaru Ibuka
1908 - 1997
HPI 66.6331 langsMasaru Ibuka is most famous for co-founding Sony Corporation with Akio Morita.
Overlapping Lives
Which Engineers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 5 most globally memorable Engineers since 1700.

