1819 - 1857
Abe Masahiro (阿部 正弘, December 3, 1819 – August 6, 1857) was the chief senior councilor (rōjū) in the Tokugawa shogunate of the Bakumatsu period at the time of the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry on his mission to open Japan to the outside world. Abe was instrumental in the eventual signing of the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854. Abe did not sign the treaty himself or participate in the negotiations in person; this was done by his plenipotentiary Hayashi Akira. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abe Masahiro has received more than 75,989 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Abe Masahiro is the 11,440th most popular politician (down from 10,602nd in 2019), the 937th most popular biography from Japan (down from 904th in 2019) and the 304th most popular Japanese Politician.
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Among politicians, Abe Masahiro ranks 11,440 out of 15,577. Before him are Leopold II, Prince of Lippe, Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, Victor Boin, Alexander Mackenzie, José María Iglesias, and Sœur Emmanuelle. After him are Juan García Oliver, Dom Mintoff, Felix Hamrin, Elie Hobeika, Giancarlo Minardi, and Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer.
1796 - 1851
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 11,434
1896 - 1963
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 11,435
1886 - 1974
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 11,436
1822 - 1892
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 11,437
1823 - 1891
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 11,438
1908 - 2008
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 11,439
1819 - 1857
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 11,440
1901 - 1980
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 11,441
1916 - 2012
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 11,442
1875 - 1937
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 11,443
1956 - 2002
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 11,444
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 11,445
1841 - 1917
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 11,446
Among people born in 1819, Abe Masahiro ranks 66. Before him are James Russell Lowell, Vatroslav Lisinski, Edwin Drake, Théodore Gouvy, Nicolae Bălcescu, and Marthinus Wessel Pretorius. After him are Butrus al-Bustani, Pieter Bleeker, Martin Johnson Heade, Ernst Falkbeer, Samuel Brannan, and Louise Otto-Peters. Among people deceased in 1857, Abe Masahiro ranks 41. Before him are William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza, Manuel Oribe, Daniele Manin, Wei Yuan, and Johann Georg Hiedler. After him are Achille Devéria, Abraham Jacob van der Aa, Juan Lindo, Carl Ludwig Koch, Johann Schweigger, and Manuel José Quintana.
1819 - 1891
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 60
1819 - 1854
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 61
1819 - 1880
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 62
1819 - 1898
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 63
1819 - 1852
HPI: 50.65
Rank: 64
1819 - 1901
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 65
1819 - 1857
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 66
1819 - 1883
HPI: 50.08
Rank: 67
1819 - 1870
HPI: 49.87
Rank: 68
1819 - 1904
HPI: 49.01
Rank: 69
1819 - 1885
HPI: 48.97
Rank: 70
1819 - 1889
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 71
1819 - 1895
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 72
1773 - 1857
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 35
1806 - 1857
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 36
1792 - 1857
HPI: 52.56
Rank: 37
1804 - 1857
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 38
1794 - 1857
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 39
1792 - 1857
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 40
1819 - 1857
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 41
1800 - 1857
HPI: 50.05
Rank: 42
1792 - 1857
HPI: 49.91
Rank: 43
1790 - 1857
HPI: 49.89
Rank: 44
1778 - 1857
HPI: 49.33
Rank: 45
1779 - 1857
HPI: 49.24
Rank: 46
1772 - 1857
HPI: 49.06
Rank: 47
Among people born in Japan, Abe Masahiro ranks 937 out of 6,048. Before him are Matsudaira Sadanobu (1759), Kyōko Kagawa (1931), Hiroshi Katayama (1940), Mitsuo Kamata (1937), Toru Iwatani (1955), and Kazuki Takahashi (1961). After him are Nobuko Yoshiya (1896), Noriaki Kasai (1972), Uesugi Harunori (1751), Unkei (1151), Kanō Motonobu (1476), and Katsukawa Shunshō (1726).
1759 - 1829
HPI: 50.26
Rank: 931
1931 - Present
HPI: 50.26
Rank: 932
1940 - Present
HPI: 50.26
Rank: 933
1937 - Present
HPI: 50.26
Rank: 934
1955 - Present
HPI: 50.25
Rank: 935
1961 - 2022
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 936
1819 - 1857
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 937
1896 - 1973
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 938
1972 - Present
HPI: 50.20
Rank: 939
1751 - 1822
HPI: 50.20
Rank: 940
1151 - 1223
HPI: 50.19
Rank: 941
1476 - 1559
HPI: 50.18
Rank: 942
1726 - 1793
HPI: 50.17
Rank: 943
Among politicians born in Japan, Abe Masahiro ranks 304. Before him are Ōmura Sumitada (1533), Sadako Ogata (1927), Sakuma Shōzan (1811), Konoe Sakihisa (1536), Tokugawa Nariaki (1800), and Matsudaira Sadanobu (1759). After him are Uesugi Harunori (1751), Sekiryo Kaneda (1901), Uchida Kōsai (1865), Sadakazu Tanigaki (1945), Ōmura Masujirō (1824), and Hisako, Princess Takamado (1953).
1533 - 1587
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 298
1927 - 2019
HPI: 51.09
Rank: 299
1811 - 1864
HPI: 51.04
Rank: 300
1536 - 1612
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 301
1800 - 1860
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 302
1759 - 1829
HPI: 50.26
Rank: 303
1819 - 1857
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 304
1751 - 1822
HPI: 50.20
Rank: 305
1901 - 1949
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 306
1865 - 1936
HPI: 50.07
Rank: 307
1945 - Present
HPI: 49.82
Rank: 308
1824 - 1869
HPI: 49.75
Rank: 309
1953 - Present
HPI: 49.45
Rank: 310