1884 - 1943
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, Isoroku Yamamoto ranks 49 out of 1,468. Before 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.
1939 - 2017
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 43
1892 - 1918
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 44
390 - 454
HPI: 74.06
Rank: 45
1875 - 1953
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 46
1859 - 1935
HPI: 73.95
Rank: 47
1915 - 1991
HPI: 73.63
Rank: 48
1884 - 1943
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 49
540 BC - 488 BC
HPI: 73.36
Rank: 50
1888 - 1935
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 51
1890 - 1946
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 52
505 - 565
HPI: 73.10
Rank: 53
990 - 1063
HPI: 73.10
Rank: 54
1908 - 1975
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 55
Among people born in 1884, Isoroku Yamamoto ranks 4. Before 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 5. Before 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.
1884 - 1962
HPI: 79.77
Rank: 1
1884 - 1972
HPI: 79.36
Rank: 2
1884 - 1920
HPI: 78.41
Rank: 3
1884 - 1943
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 4
1884 - 1948
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 5
1884 - 1942
HPI: 71.55
Rank: 6
1884 - 1948
HPI: 71.45
Rank: 7
1884 - 1942
HPI: 70.84
Rank: 8
1884 - 1973
HPI: 70.68
Rank: 9
1884 - 1970
HPI: 70.53
Rank: 10
1884 - 1966
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 11
1884 - 1968
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 12
1856 - 1943
HPI: 90.69
Rank: 1
1873 - 1943
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 2
1862 - 1943
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 3
1868 - 1943
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 4
1884 - 1943
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 5
1865 - 1943
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 6
1864 - 1943
HPI: 71.39
Rank: 7
1909 - 1943
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 8
1894 - 1943
HPI: 71.03
Rank: 9
1857 - 1943
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 10
1892 - 1943
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 11
1907 - 1943
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 12
Among people born in Japan, Isoroku Yamamoto ranks 17 out of 6,048. Before 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).
1644 - 1694
HPI: 75.69
Rank: 11
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 12
1542 - 1616
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 13
1960 - Present
HPI: 74.28
Rank: 14
1536 - 1598
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 15
973 - 1014
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 16
1884 - 1943
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 17
1879 - 1926
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 18
1909 - 1948
HPI: 72.46
Rank: 19
1899 - 1972
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 20
711 BC - 585 BC
HPI: 72.17
Rank: 21
1933 - Present
HPI: 72.14
Rank: 22
1884 - 1948
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 23
Among military personnels born in Japan, Isoroku Yamamoto ranks 3. Before 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).
1534 - 1582
HPI: 77.36
Rank: 1
1542 - 1616
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 2
1884 - 1943
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 3
1922 - 2014
HPI: 70.97
Rank: 4
1542 - 1597
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 5
1828 - 1877
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 6
1887 - 1944
HPI: 67.65
Rank: 7
1159 - 1189
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 8
1526 - 1582
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 9
1891 - 1945
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 10
1567 - 1636
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 11
1848 - 1934
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 12