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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Hiroo Onoda

1922 - 2014

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Hiroo Onoda (Japanese: 小野田 寛郎, Hepburn: Onoda Hiroo, 19 March 1922 – 16 January 2014) was a Japanese intelligence officer of the Imperial Japanese Army who fought in World War II and did not surrender at the war's end in August 1945. After the war ended, Onoda spent 29 years hiding in the Philippines until Norio Suzuki, a Japanese explorer and adventurer, found him and relayed the message that the Emperor wanted him to come back to Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hiroo Onoda has received more than 5,078,165 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Hiroo Onoda is the 83rd most popular military personnel (up from 126th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Japan (up from 39th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese soldier who was stationed on the island of Lubang in the Philippines. He was a member of the Imperial Japanese Army, and he was told that Japan had lost the war in 1945. He refused to believe this and continued to fight against the Philippine government until 1974.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Hiroo Onoda ranks 83 out of 1,468. Before him are Ivan Konev, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Ahmad Sanjar, Eugène de Beauharnais, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, and Wilhelm Canaris. After him are Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Andrea Doria, Alexander Suvorov, Hattori Hanzō, Tadeusz Kościuszko, and Jan Žižka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Hiroo Onoda ranks 13. Before him are Judy Garland, Norodom Sihanouk, Ava Gardner, Pierre Cardin, Erich Hartmann, and Franjo Tuđman. After him are Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Erving Goffman, Jack Kerouac, Emil Zátopek, Christiaan Barnard, and Gérard Philipe. Among people deceased in 2014, Hiroo Onoda ranks 7. Before him are Gabriel García Márquez, Robin Williams, Ariel Sharon, Eusébio, Alfredo Di Stéfano, and Eduard Shevardnadze. After him are Wojciech Jaruzelski, Claudio Abbado, Eli Wallach, Joe Cocker, Luis Aragonés, and Shirley Temple.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiroo Onoda ranks 26 out of 6,048. Before him are Yasunari Kawabata (1899), Emperor Jimmu (-711), Yoko Ono (1933), Hideki Tojo (1884), Sasaki Kojirō (1583), and Olivia de Havilland (1916). After him are Hattori Hanzō (1542), Yayoi Kusama (1929), Osamu Tezuka (1928), Lee Myung-bak (1941), Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892), and Kane Tanaka (1903).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Hiroo Onoda ranks 4. Before him are Oda Nobunaga (1534), Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542), and Isoroku Yamamoto (1884). After him are Hattori Hanzō (1542), Saigō Takamori (1828), Chūichi Nagumo (1887), Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891), Date Masamune (1567), and Tōgō Heihachirō (1848).

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