1838 - 1897
Count Gotō Shōjirō (後藤 象二郎, April 13, 1838 – August 4, 1897) was a Japanese samurai and politician during the Bakumatsu and early Meiji period of Japanese history. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gotō Shōjirō has received more than 39,355 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Gotō Shōjirō is the 383rd most popular social activist (down from 352nd in 2019), the 1,032nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 986th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Social Activist.
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Among social activists, Gotō Shōjirō ranks 383 out of 538. Before him are Mahmoud Taleghani, Catharine MacKinnon, Naziha al-Dulaimi, Viola Desmond, Marie Popelin, and Samantha Smith. After him are Anita Augspurg, Gulnara Karimova, Sam Childers, Giuseppe Pinelli, Nikolay Bauman, and Lev Chernyi.
1911 - 1979
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 377
1946 - Present
HPI: 49.13
Rank: 378
1923 - 2007
HPI: 49.10
Rank: 379
1914 - 1965
HPI: 49.04
Rank: 380
1846 - 1913
HPI: 49.02
Rank: 381
1972 - 1985
HPI: 49.00
Rank: 382
1838 - 1897
HPI: 48.89
Rank: 383
1857 - 1943
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 384
1972 - Present
HPI: 48.82
Rank: 385
1963 - Present
HPI: 48.82
Rank: 386
1928 - 1969
HPI: 48.81
Rank: 387
1873 - Present
HPI: 48.78
Rank: 388
1890 - 1921
HPI: 48.77
Rank: 389
Among people born in 1838, Gotō Shōjirō ranks 74. Before him are John Hay, Henry Irving, James Craig Watson, James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, Henry Adams, and Oswald Schmiedeberg. After him are Giovanni Cagliero, Toyohara Chikanobu, Jules Méline, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Sherburne Wesley Burnham, and Marin Drinov. Among people deceased in 1897, Gotō Shōjirō ranks 54. Before him are Édouard Deldevez, Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau, Effie Gray, Mutsu Munemitsu, William Henry Conley, and Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke. After him are Aleko Konstantinov, Charles Blondin, Oscar Dickson, Léon Gautier, Carl Remigius Fresenius, and Heinrich von Stephan.
1838 - 1905
HPI: 49.76
Rank: 68
1838 - 1905
HPI: 49.71
Rank: 69
1838 - 1880
HPI: 49.54
Rank: 70
1838 - 1922
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 71
1838 - 1918
HPI: 49.48
Rank: 72
1838 - 1921
HPI: 48.97
Rank: 73
1838 - 1897
HPI: 48.89
Rank: 74
1838 - 1926
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 75
1838 - 1912
HPI: 48.64
Rank: 76
1838 - 1925
HPI: 48.47
Rank: 77
1838 - 1907
HPI: 48.46
Rank: 78
1838 - 1921
HPI: 48.25
Rank: 79
1838 - 1906
HPI: 48.20
Rank: 80
1817 - 1897
HPI: 49.92
Rank: 48
1824 - 1897
HPI: 49.76
Rank: 49
1828 - 1897
HPI: 49.21
Rank: 50
1844 - 1897
HPI: 49.20
Rank: 51
1840 - 1897
HPI: 49.07
Rank: 52
1835 - 1897
HPI: 48.89
Rank: 53
1838 - 1897
HPI: 48.89
Rank: 54
1863 - 1897
HPI: 48.75
Rank: 55
1824 - 1897
HPI: 48.35
Rank: 56
1823 - 1897
HPI: 48.31
Rank: 57
1832 - 1897
HPI: 48.27
Rank: 58
1818 - 1897
HPI: 47.96
Rank: 59
1831 - 1897
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 60
Among people born in Japan, Gotō Shōjirō ranks 1,032 out of 6,048. Before him are Uemura Shōen (1875), Yoshitomo Nara (1959), Hiro Mashima (1977), Torii Kiyonobu I (1664), Kinue Hitomi (1907), and Yukio Kasaya (1943). After him are Yoshiki Tanaka (1952), Shinobu Ishihara (1879), Keizo Imai (1950), Tōru Furuya (1953), Ryozo Suzuki (1939), and Tadao Onishi (1943).
1875 - 1949
HPI: 48.97
Rank: 1,026
1959 - Present
HPI: 48.97
Rank: 1,027
1977 - Present
HPI: 48.96
Rank: 1,028
1664 - 1729
HPI: 48.96
Rank: 1,029
1907 - 1931
HPI: 48.95
Rank: 1,030
1943 - Present
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 1,031
1838 - 1897
HPI: 48.89
Rank: 1,032
1952 - Present
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 1,033
1879 - 1963
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 1,034
1950 - Present
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 1,035
1953 - Present
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 1,036
1939 - Present
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 1,037
1943 - 2006
HPI: 48.82
Rank: 1,038
Among social activists born in Japan, Gotō Shōjirō ranks 7. Before him are Sadako Sasaki (1943), Sakamoto Ryōma (1836), Ishikawa Goemon (1558), Otoya Yamaguchi (1943), Itagaki Taisuke (1837), and Toyohiko Kagawa (1888). After him are Megumi Yokota (1964), Akira Amano (1973), and Jared Taylor (1951).
1943 - 1955
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 1
1836 - 1867
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 2
1558 - 1594
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 3
1943 - 1960
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 4
1837 - 1919
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 5
1888 - 1960
HPI: 50.33
Rank: 6
1838 - 1897
HPI: 48.89
Rank: 7
1964 - Present
HPI: 46.30
Rank: 8
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.20
Rank: 9
1951 - Present
HPI: 40.59
Rank: 10