MILITARY PERSONNEL

Hattori Hanzō

1542 - 1597

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Hattori Hanzō (服部 半蔵, c. 1542 – January 2, 1597) or Second Hanzō, nicknamed Oni no Hanzō (鬼の半蔵, Demon Hanzō), was a famous samurai of the Sengoku era, who served the Tokugawa clan as a general, credited with saving the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu and then helping him to become the ruler of united Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hattori Hanzō has received more than 2,955,728 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Hattori Hanzō is the 89th most popular military personnel (down from 87th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Japan (down from 27th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

Hattori HANZO is most famous for being the retainer of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate. He was also a skilled swordsman and a spy.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Hattori Hanzō ranks 89 out of 2,058. Before him are Qasem Soleimani, Yi Sun-sin, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Ivan Konev, Subutai, and Erich Hartmann. After him are Walther von Brauchitsch, Hephaestion, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Nero Claudius Drusus, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, and Albert Kesselring.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1542, Hattori Hanzō ranks 5. Before him are Akbar, Mary, Queen of Scots, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and John of the Cross. After him are Robert Bellarmine, Mariam-uz-Zamani, Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira, Jan Zamoyski, Ruqaiya Sultan Begum, Henriette of Cleves, and Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona. Among people deceased in 1597, Hattori Hanzō ranks 2. Before him is Willem Barentsz. After him are Maharana Pratap, Peter Canisius, Paulo Miki, Joseph of Anchieta, Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain, Franciscus Patricius, Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Edward Kelley, Barbara Blomberg, and Ashikaga Yoshiaki.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hattori Hanzō ranks 28 out of 6,245. Before him are Shinzō Abe (1954), Koji Tanaka (1955), Osamu Tezuka (1928), Hideki Tojo (1884), Kanō Jigorō (1860), and Kenzaburō Ōe (1935). After him are Sadako Sasaki (1943), Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892), Saigō Takamori (1828), Yayoi Kusama (1929), Sasaki Kojirō (1583), and Lee Myung-bak (1941).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Hattori Hanzō ranks 4. Before him are Oda Nobunaga (1534), Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542), and Isoroku Yamamoto (1884). After him are Saigō Takamori (1828), Hiroo Onoda (1922), Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159), Chūichi Nagumo (1887), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837), Date Masamune (1567), and Tōgō Heihachirō (1848).

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