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Hayato Ikeda

1899 - 1965

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Hayato Ikeda (池田 勇人, Ikeda Hayato, 3 December 1899 – 13 August 1965) was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1960 to 1964. He is best known for his Income Doubling Plan, which promised to double Japan's GDP in 10 years, and for presiding over the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Born in Hiroshima Prefecture, Ikeda studied law at Kyoto Imperial University and entered the Ministry of Finance in 1925, working there for the next two decades. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hayato Ikeda has received more than 280,431 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Hayato Ikeda is the 6,339th most popular politician (down from 5,930th in 2019), the 474th most popular biography from Japan (down from 418th in 2019) and the 195th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hayato Ikeda ranks 6,339 out of 19,576. Before him are Silo of Asturias, Manuel L. Quezon, Sidónio Pais, Elijah Muhammad, Tokugawa Ienobu, and Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua. After him are Tokugawa Ieshige, Albert I, Duke of Saxony, Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei, Georg Ritter von Schönerer, Katharine, Duchess of Kent, and Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Hayato Ikeda ranks 77. Before him are Emma Morano, Marcel Achard, Raoul Salan, Artur da Costa e Silva, Ernst-Robert Grawitz, and Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei. After him are Irving Thalberg, Gustav Ucicky, Nikolay Voronov, Akim Tamiroff, Michał Kalecki, and Gustaf Gründgens. Among people deceased in 1965, Hayato Ikeda ranks 46. Before him are Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i, Aksel Sandemose, Carl Oberg, Bernard Baruch, Henry A. Wallace, and Chen Cheng. After him are Jesse Douglas, Georges Gurvitch, Herberts Cukurs, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, Taimur bin Feisal, and Porfirio Rubirosa.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hayato Ikeda ranks 474 out of 6,245. Before him are Hon'inbō Shūsaku (1829), Emperor Kōkō (830), Takeda Sōkaku (1859), Hidetoshi Nakata (1977), Takeo Kurita (1889), and Tokugawa Ienobu (1662). After him are Tokugawa Ieshige (1712), Noboru Takeshita (1924), Matsukata Masayoshi (1835), Emperor Ichijō (980), Shozo Tsugitani (1940), and Hiroshi Kanazawa (1950).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Hayato Ikeda ranks 195. Before him are Toshiki Kaifu (1931), Keizō Obuchi (1937), Oichi (1547), Emperor Kōkō (830), Takeda Sōkaku (1859), and Tokugawa Ienobu (1662). After him are Tokugawa Ieshige (1712), Noboru Takeshita (1924), Matsukata Masayoshi (1835), Emperor Ichijō (980), Ashikaga Yoshiteru (1536), and Kusunoki Masashige (1294).

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