SOCCER PLAYER

Hideo Sakai

1909 - 1996

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Hideo Sakai (堺井 秀雄, Sakai Hideo, June 10, 1909 – June 3, 1996) was a Japanese football player. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hideo Sakai has received more than 11,533 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia. Hideo Sakai is the 352nd most popular soccer player (down from 217th in 2019), the 348th most popular biography from Japan (down from 258th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Japanese Soccer Player.

Hideo Sakai is most famous for being the first Japanese American to be awarded the Medal of Honor. In 1944, he was serving as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was captured by the Japanese and held as a prisoner of war. He was tortured and starved. He was finally rescued and returned to the U.S. in 1945.

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  • 12k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 26.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Hideo Sakai ranks 352 out of 21,273. Before him are Youri Djorkaeff, Sepp Herberger, Telê Santana, Petr Čech, Artur Jorge, and Helmut Schön. After him are Jürgen Grabowski, Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório, Takashi Kasahara, Kazuyoshi Nakamura, Antonio Carbajal, and Richard Møller Nielsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Hideo Sakai ranks 56. Before him are Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, Rollo May, James Mason, Otto Kumm, Art Tatum, and Princess Ileana of Romania. After him are Aenne Burda, Joseph Losey, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Grażyna Bacewicz, Clement Greenberg, and Golo Mann. Among people deceased in 1996, Hideo Sakai ranks 62. Before him are Frida Boccara, Lucio Fulci, Obdulio Varela, María Casares, Brigitte Helm, and Helmut Schön. After him are Hans Blumenberg, Piet Hein, Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este, Leonor Fini, Virginia Henderson, and Spiro Agnew.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hideo Sakai ranks 348 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Go-Shirakawa (1127), Hirokazu Kore-eda (1962), Emperor Chōkei (1343), Kiyonosuke Marutani (null), Emperor Go-Saga (1220), and Kuroda Kiyotaka (1840). After him are Emperor Go-Toba (1180), Toshio Suzuki (1948), Takashi Kasahara (1918), Sadaharu Oh (1940), Kazuyoshi Nakamura (1955), and Taira no Masakado (903).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Japan

Among soccer players born in Japan, Hideo Sakai ranks 21. Before him are Akira Nozawa (1914), Kunitaka Sueoka (1917), Akira Kitaguchi (1935), Waichiro Omura (1933), Shoichi Nishimura (1912), and Kiyonosuke Marutani (null). After him are Takashi Kasahara (1918), Kazuyoshi Nakamura (1955), Yasuo Takamori (1934), Takashi Takabayashi (1931), Yasuo Suzuki (1913), and Tamotsu Asakura (null).

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