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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Isoroku Yamamoto

1884 - 1943

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Isoroku Yamamoto (山本 五十六, Yamamoto Isoroku, April 4, 1884 – April 18, 1943) was a Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II. Yamamoto held several important posts in the Imperial Navy, and undertook many of its changes and reorganizations, especially its development of naval aviation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isoroku Yamamoto has received more than 5,195,543 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Isoroku Yamamoto is the 49th most popular military personnel (down from 37th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Japan (down from 12th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

Ishoroku Yamamoto was a Japanese military officer who was the Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1939 to 1944. He was the architect of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and is most famous for his role in World War II.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Isoroku Yamamoto ranks 49 out of 1,468Before him are Stanislav Petrov, Manfred von Richthofen, Flavius Aetius, Gerd von Rundstedt, Alfred Dreyfus, and Vasily Zaitsev. After him are Miltiades, T. E. Lawrence, Alfred Jodl, Belisarius, Tughril, and Otto Skorzeny.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Isoroku Yamamoto ranks 4Before him are Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Amedeo Modigliani. After him are Hideki Tojo, Bronisław Malinowski, Edvard Beneš, Anton Drexler, İsmet İnönü, Édouard Daladier, Peter Debye, and Max Brod. Among people deceased in 1943, Isoroku Yamamoto ranks 5Before him are Nikola Tesla, Sergei Rachmaninoff, David Hilbert, and Karl Landsteiner. After him are Pieter Zeeman, Camille Claudel, Simone Weil, Boris III of Bulgaria, Henrik Pontoppidan, Theodor Eicke, and Yakov Dzhugashvili.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Isoroku Yamamoto ranks 17 out of 6,048Before him are Matsuo Bashō (1644), Haruki Murakami (1949), Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542), Naruhito (1960), Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536), and Murasaki Shikibu (973). After him are Emperor Taishō (1879), Osamu Dazai (1909), Yasunari Kawabata (1899), Emperor Jimmu (-711), Yoko Ono (1933), and Hideki Tojo (1884).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Isoroku Yamamoto ranks 3Before him are Oda Nobunaga (1534) and Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542). After him are Hiroo Onoda (1922), 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).