1876 - 1928
Hideyo Noguchi (野口 英世, Noguchi Hideyo, November 9, 1876 – May 21, 1928), also known as Seisaku Noguchi (野口 清作, Noguchi Seisaku), was a prominent Japanese bacteriologist who in 1911 discovered the agent of syphilis as the cause of progressive paralytic disease. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hideyo Noguchi has received more than 402,186 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Hideyo Noguchi is the 208th most popular biologist (down from 202nd in 2019), the 469th most popular biography from Japan (down from 452nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Biologist.
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Among biologists, Hideyo Noguchi ranks 208 out of 841. Before him are Henrietta Lacks, Waldemar Haffkine, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Jérôme Lejeune, Albert von Kölliker, and Robert Gallo. After him are Adam Afzelius, David Baltimore, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Georges J. F. Köhler, and Willi Hennig.
1920 - 1951
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 202
1860 - 1930
HPI: 56.72
Rank: 203
1901 - 1997
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 204
1926 - 1994
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 205
1817 - 1905
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 206
1937 - Present
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 207
1876 - 1928
HPI: 56.59
Rank: 208
1750 - 1837
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 209
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 210
1806 - 1886
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 211
1916 - 2010
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 212
1946 - 1995
HPI: 56.45
Rank: 213
1913 - 1976
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 214
Among people born in 1876, Hideyo Noguchi ranks 59. Before him are Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Walter Sydney Adams, Joseph Meister, Julio González, and Archduchess Maria Annunciata of Austria. After him are Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Tatyana Afanasyeva, Ettore Bastico, Edvard Eriksen, Nicola Romeo, and Josef Hofmann. Among people deceased in 1928, Hideyo Noguchi ranks 38. Before him are Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Jan Toorop, Pavel Axelrod, Narayana Guru, José Sánchez del Río, and Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud. After him are Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Léon Duguit, Antonio Abetti, Adolphe Appia, Alvin Kraenzlein, and Otto Nordenskjöld.
1876 - 1948
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 53
1876 - 1923
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 54
1876 - 1956
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 55
1876 - 1940
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 56
1876 - 1942
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 57
1876 - 1961
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 58
1876 - 1928
HPI: 56.59
Rank: 59
1876 - 1938
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 60
1876 - 1964
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 61
1876 - 1972
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 62
1876 - 1959
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 63
1876 - 1938
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 64
1876 - 1957
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 65
1861 - 1928
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 32
1858 - 1928
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 33
1850 - 1928
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 34
1855 - 1928
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 35
1913 - 1928
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 36
1850 - 1928
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 37
1876 - 1928
HPI: 56.59
Rank: 38
1851 - 1928
HPI: 55.95
Rank: 39
1859 - 1928
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 40
1846 - 1928
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 41
1862 - 1928
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 42
1876 - 1928
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 43
1869 - 1928
HPI: 55.02
Rank: 44
Among people born in Japan, Hideyo Noguchi ranks 469 out of 6,048. Before him are Junji Kawano (1945), Ken Takakura (1931), Matsukata Masayoshi (1835), Mitsumasa Yonai (1880), Emperor Go-Ichijō (1008), and Masaaki Hatsumi (1931). After him are Eisai (1141), Makoto Shinkai (1973), Tsukasa Hosaka (1937), Saichō (767), Hiroshi Kanazawa (1950), and Hiroto Muraoka (1931).
1945 - Present
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 463
1931 - 2014
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 464
1835 - 1924
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 465
1880 - 1948
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 466
1008 - 1036
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 467
1931 - Present
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 468
1876 - 1928
HPI: 56.59
Rank: 469
1141 - 1215
HPI: 56.59
Rank: 470
1973 - Present
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 471
1937 - 2018
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 472
767 - 822
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 473
1950 - Present
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 474
1931 - 2017
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 475
Among biologists born in Japan, Hideyo Noguchi ranks 3. Before him are Yoshinori Ohsumi (1945) and Susumu Tonegawa (1939). After him are Motoo Kimura (1924), Takenoshin Nakai (1882), Tsuneko Okazaki (1933), Tomitaro Makino (1862), Katsuko Saruhashi (1920), Bunzō Hayata (1874), Tokiharu Abe (1911), and Ryuta Kawashima (1959).
1945 - Present
HPI: 67.70
Rank: 1
1939 - Present
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 2
1876 - 1928
HPI: 56.59
Rank: 3
1924 - 1994
HPI: 53.88
Rank: 4
1882 - 1952
HPI: 52.96
Rank: 5
1933 - Present
HPI: 49.25
Rank: 6
1862 - 1957
HPI: 48.65
Rank: 7
1920 - 2007
HPI: 46.05
Rank: 8
1874 - 1934
HPI: 45.10
Rank: 9
1911 - 1996
HPI: 43.90
Rank: 10
1959 - Present
HPI: 43.77
Rank: 11