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Fusajiro Yamauchi

1859 - 1940

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fusajiro Yamauchi has received more than 955,299 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Fusajiro Yamauchi is the 170th most popular businessperson (down from 160th in 2019), the 369th most popular biography from Japan (up from 417th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Businessperson.

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  • 57.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Fusajiro Yamauchi ranks 170 out of 601. Before him are Phil Knight, Karl Albrecht, Stanley Ho, Torakusu Yamaha, Tomáš Baťa, and Steve Chen. After him are Theodor de Bry, Malcolm Glazer, Edsel Ford, Asa Griggs Candler, Jack Daniel, and Thomas J. Watson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Fusajiro Yamauchi ranks 33. Before him are Anna Ancher, Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia, Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Francesc Macià, Pavel Milyukov, and Peter Altenberg. After him are Théophile Steinlen, Ravachol, Takeda Sōkaku, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Alexandru Averescu, and Natalie of Serbia. Among people deceased in 1940, Fusajiro Yamauchi ranks 44. Before him are Michael Hainisch, Saionji Kinmochi, Nicolae Iorga, Marcus Garvey, Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark, and Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev. After him are Édouard Claparède, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark, Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich, Jesse Livermore, and Lewis Hine.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Fusajiro Yamauchi ranks 369 out of 6,048. Before him are Hirohiko Araki (1960), Takijirō Ōnishi (1891), Keizō Obuchi (1937), Masao Takada (null), Hishikawa Moronobu (1618), and Takeshi Natori (null). After him are Emperor Nijō (1143), Kuroda Kiyotaka (1840), Inejiro Asanuma (1898), Kiichi Miyazawa (1919), Ichirō Hatoyama (1883), and Haruo Arima (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), Hiroshi Yamauchi (1927), Iwasaki Yatarō (1835), Masayoshi Son (1957), and Torakusu Yamaha (1851). After him are Eiji Toyoda (1913), Mikimoto Kōkichi (1858), Tadashi Yanai (1949), Norio Ohga (1930), Tatsumi Kimishima (1950), and Akio Toyoda (1956).

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