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Fusajiro Yamauchi

1859 - 1940

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Fusajirō Yamauchi (山内 房治郎, Yamauchi Fusajirō, November 22, 1859 – January 1, 1940), originally born as Fusajirō Fukui (福井 房治郎, Fukui Fusajirō), was a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Yamauchi Nintendo, later known as Nintendo. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fusajiro Yamauchi has received more than 1,030,615 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Fusajiro Yamauchi is the 164th most popular businessperson (up from 170th in 2019), the 397th most popular biography from Japan (down from 367th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Businessperson.

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  • 2.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Fusajiro Yamauchi ranks 164 out of 847. Before him are Lorenzo Sanz, Fredrik Idestam, Malcolm Glazer, Karl Albrecht, Johnny Kitagawa, and Tomáš Baťa. After him are Paul Elvstrøm, Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, Shin Kyuk-ho, Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici, Stanley Ho, and Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Fusajiro Yamauchi ranks 33. Before him are Bertha Pappenheim, Pavel Milyukov, Francesc Macià, Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia, and Théophile Steinlen. After him are Diana Abgar, Natalie of Serbia, Alexandru Averescu, Peter Altenberg, Takeda Sōkaku, and Adolf Hurwitz. Among people deceased in 1940, Fusajiro Yamauchi ranks 43. Before him are Saionji Kinmochi, Gunnar Asplund, Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark, Prince Jean, Duke of Guise, Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, and Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark. After him are Frederick Cook, Albin Lermusiaux, Édouard Claparède, Paul Nizan, Walter Chrysler, and Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Fusajiro Yamauchi ranks 397 out of 6,245. Before him are Sessue Hayakawa (1886), Shigeo Sugimoto (1926), Yoshio Furukawa (1934), Yukiya Amano (1947), Toru Takemitsu (1930), and Tokugawa Ienari (1773). After him are Emperor Juntoku (1197), Ono no Komachi (825), Yodo-dono (1569), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Kunisada (1786), and Yoshimatsu Oyama (null).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Japan

Among businesspeople born in Japan, Fusajiro Yamauchi ranks 8. Before him are Kiichiro Toyoda (1894), Akio Morita (1921), Torakusu Yamaha (1851), Iwasaki Yatarō (1835), Hiroshi Yamauchi (1927), and Masayoshi Son (1957). After him are Mineko Iwasaki (1949), Shibusawa Eiichi (1840), Eiji Toyoda (1913), Mikimoto Kōkichi (1858), Tadashi Yanai (1949), and Norio Ohga (1930).

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