1880 - 1945
Hajime Sugiyama (杉山 元, Sugiyama Hajime / Sugiyama Gen, January 1, 1880 – September 12, 1945) was a Japanese field marshal and one of Japan's military leaders for most of the Second World War. As Army Minister in 1937, Sugiyama was a driving force behind the launch of hostilities against China in retaliation for the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. After being named the Army’s Chief of Staff in 1940, he became a leading advocate for expansion into Southeast Asia and preventive war against the United States. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hajime Sugiyama has received more than 256,661 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Hajime Sugiyama is the 6,829th most popular politician (up from 6,992nd in 2019), the 520th most popular biography from Japan (up from 590th in 2019) and the 208th most popular Japanese Politician.
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Among politicians, Hajime Sugiyama ranks 6,829 out of 15,577. Before him are Mikhail of Vladimir, Pierre Bérégovoy, Su Tseng-chang, Hermann Kövess von Kövessháza, Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt, and Seonjong of Goryeo. After him are Thorbjörn Fälldin, Masaharu Homma, Sati Beg, Géraud Duroc, Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Kunigunde of Hohenstaufen.
1145 - 1176
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 6,823
1925 - 1993
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 6,824
1947 - Present
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 6,825
1854 - 1924
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 6,826
1831 - 1904
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 6,827
1049 - 1094
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 6,828
1880 - 1945
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 6,829
1926 - 2016
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 6,830
1888 - 1946
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 6,831
1300 - 1345
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 6,832
1772 - 1813
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 6,833
1764 - 1788
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 6,834
1202 - 1248
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 6,835
Among people born in 1880, Hajime Sugiyama ranks 66. Before him are Grock, Prince Georg of Bavaria, Tod Browning, Robert Stolz, Abram Ioffe, and Jacques Thibaud. After him are Yōsuke Matsuoka, Fethi Okyar, Lincoln Ellsworth, Osami Nagano, Nikolaj Velimirović, and Volodymyr Vynnychenko. Among people deceased in 1945, Hajime Sugiyama ranks 129. Before him are Le Pétomane, Fritz Klingenberg, Robert Brasillach, Seiichi Itō, Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, and Alexander Siloti. After him are Leonardo Conti, Eduard Bloch, Joseph Darnand, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., Zinaida Gippius, and Hans von Dohnanyi.
1880 - 1959
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 60
1880 - 1943
HPI: 56.47
Rank: 61
1880 - 1962
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 62
1880 - 1975
HPI: 56.21
Rank: 63
1880 - 1960
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 64
1880 - 1953
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 65
1880 - 1945
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 66
1880 - 1946
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 67
1880 - 1943
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 68
1880 - 1951
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 69
1880 - 1947
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 70
1880 - 1956
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 71
1880 - 1951
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 72
1857 - 1945
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 123
1912 - 1945
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 124
1909 - 1945
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 125
1890 - 1945
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 126
1893 - 1945
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 127
1863 - 1945
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 128
1880 - 1945
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 129
1900 - 1945
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 130
1872 - 1945
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 131
1897 - 1945
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 132
1886 - 1945
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 133
1869 - 1945
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 134
1902 - 1945
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 135
Among people born in Japan, Hajime Sugiyama ranks 520 out of 6,048. Before him are Yoshihiko Noda (1957), Toshio Hirabayashi (null), Kondō Isami (1834), Sadaharu Oh (1940), Taro Kagawa (1922), and Akiko Wakabayashi (1941). After him are Masaharu Homma (1888), Chōsokabe Motochika (1539), Takahashi Korekiyo (1854), Emperor Suzaku (923), Satoru Iwata (1959), and Waichiro Omura (1933).
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 514
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 515
1834 - 1868
HPI: 56.07
Rank: 516
1940 - Present
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 517
1922 - 1990
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 518
1941 - Present
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 519
1880 - 1945
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 520
1888 - 1946
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 521
1539 - 1599
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 522
1854 - 1936
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 523
923 - 952
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 524
1959 - 2015
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 525
1933 - 2003
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 526
Among politicians born in Japan, Hajime Sugiyama ranks 208. Before him are Yamada Nagamasa (1590), Tokugawa Ieyoshi (1793), Fujiwara no Michinaga (966), Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1435), Yoshihiko Noda (1957), and Kondō Isami (1834). After him are Masaharu Homma (1888), Chōsokabe Motochika (1539), Takahashi Korekiyo (1854), Emperor Suzaku (923), Masayoshi Ōhira (1910), and Yōsuke Matsuoka (1880).
1590 - 1630
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 202
1793 - 1853
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 203
966 - 1028
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 204
1435 - 1490
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 205
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 206
1834 - 1868
HPI: 56.07
Rank: 207
1880 - 1945
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 208
1888 - 1946
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 209
1539 - 1599
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 210
1854 - 1936
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 211
923 - 952
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 212
1910 - 1980
HPI: 55.92
Rank: 213
1880 - 1946
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 214