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Genichi Taguchi

1924 - 2012

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Genichi Taguchi (田口 玄一, Taguchi Gen'ichi, January 1, 1924 – June 2, 2012) was an engineer and statistician. From the 1950s on, Taguchi developed a methodology for applying statistics to improve the quality of manufactured goods. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Genichi Taguchi has received more than 232,329 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Genichi Taguchi is the 191st most popular engineer, the 923rd most popular biography from Japan and the 5th most popular Japanese Engineer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Genichi Taguchi ranks 191 out of 389. Before him are Michele Besso, Michel Chevalier, Emily Warren Roebling, Gene Kranz, Ivan Yarkovsky, and Kelly Johnson. After him are Jorge Chávez, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Eugen Sänger, Alexander Lodygin, Franz Grashof, and Émile Levassor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Genichi Taguchi ranks 204. Before him are Deke Slayton, Antoine Cuissard, Patricia Kennedy Lawford, Pierre Sinibaldi, Nina Bocharova, and Jaime Lusinchi. After him are Wiel Coerver, Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Anatoli Bashashkin, Idries Shah, Jean Laplanche, and Evald Ilyenkov. Among people deceased in 2012, Genichi Taguchi ranks 174. Before him are Friedrich Hirzebruch, Pierre Sinibaldi, Rashidi Yekini, Simeon ten Holt, Avraham Adan, and Roy Salvadori. After him are Carlo Rambaldi, Jack Klugman, Christian Marin, Harry Carey Jr., Albert George Wilson, and Jean Laplanche.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Genichi Taguchi ranks 923 out of 6,245. Before him are Yoshiaki Kawajiri (1950), Toyohito Mochizuki (1953), Ozaki Kōyō (1868), Naoya Shiga (1883), Sayuri Yoshinaga (1945), and Yuji Kishioku (1954). After him are Moriteru Ueshiba (1951), Akinori Nakayama (1943), Haruo Nakajima (1929), Shigeru Umebayashi (1951), Kiyoshi Shiga (1871), and Masakatsu Miyamoto (1938).

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Among ENGINEERS In Japan

Among engineers born in Japan, Genichi Taguchi ranks 5. Before him are Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916), Jiro Horikoshi (1903), Masaru Ibuka (1908), and Hidesaburō Ueno (1872). After him are Hidetsugu Yagi (1886), and Naoki Hattori (1966).

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