1918 - 1993
Kakuei Tanaka (田中 角栄, Tanaka Kakuei, 4 May 1918 – 16 December 1993) was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1972 to 1974. He served in the House of Representatives from 1947 to 1990. As prime minister, Tanaka advocated large-scale infrastructure development and oversaw the normalization diplomatic relations with China. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kakuei Tanaka has received more than 427,226 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. Kakuei Tanaka is the 5,200th most popular politician (down from 4,996th in 2019), the 326th most popular biography from Japan (up from 352nd in 2019) and the 126th most popular Japanese Politician.
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Among politicians, Kakuei Tanaka ranks 5,200 out of 15,577. Before him are Emine Erdoğan, Georg Kerschensteiner, Abdullah Khan II, Tuman bay II, Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, and Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria. After him are Do-Aklin, Stephen II, Duke of Bavaria, Arthur Drewry, Minoru Genda, Wolfram Sievers, and Zhu Yousong.
1955 - Present
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 5,194
1854 - 1932
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 5,195
1533 - 1598
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 5,196
1474 - 1517
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 5,197
1572 - 1632
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 5,198
1938 - 2015
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 5,199
1918 - 1993
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 5,200
1550 - 1700
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 5,201
1319 - 1375
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 5,202
1891 - 1961
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 5,203
1904 - 1989
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 5,204
1905 - 1948
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 5,205
1607 - 1646
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 5,206
Among people born in 1918, Kakuei Tanaka ranks 70. Before him are Konstantinos Mitsotakis, B. K. S. Iyengar, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Jin Youzhi, Yigal Allon, and Jean-Marie Loret. After him are João Figueiredo, Gabriel Axel, Philip José Farmer, Kenichi Fukui, Humaira Begum, and Volodymyr Shcherbytsky. Among people deceased in 1993, Kakuei Tanaka ranks 52. Before him are River Phoenix, Don Ameche, Lucia Popp, Stewart Granger, Leonid Gaidai, and Léo Ferré. After him are Eddie Constantine, Helen Hayes, Bruno Pontecorvo, Matthew Ridgway, Meliton Kantaria, and Ishirō Honda.
1918 - 2017
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 64
1918 - 2014
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 65
1918 - 2004
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 66
1918 - 2015
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 67
1918 - 1980
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 68
1918 - 1985
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 69
1918 - 1993
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 70
1918 - 1999
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 71
1918 - 2014
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 72
1918 - 2009
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 73
1918 - 1998
HPI: 57.83
Rank: 74
1918 - 2002
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 75
1918 - 1990
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 76
1970 - 1993
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 46
1908 - 1993
HPI: 58.89
Rank: 47
1939 - 1993
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 48
1913 - 1993
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 49
1923 - 1993
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 50
1916 - 1993
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 51
1918 - 1993
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 52
1913 - 1993
HPI: 58.02
Rank: 53
1900 - 1993
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 54
1913 - 1993
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 55
1895 - 1993
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 56
1920 - 1993
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 57
1911 - 1993
HPI: 57.24
Rank: 58
Among people born in Japan, Kakuei Tanaka ranks 326 out of 6,048. Before him are Ihara Saikaku (1642), Megumu Tamura (1927), Nobutake Kondō (1886), Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Hisataka Okamoto (1933), and Kōki Hirota (1878). After him are Minoru Genda (1904), Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado (1442), Kunisada (1786), Nobuyuki Abe (1875), and Hirokazu Ninomiya (1917).
1642 - 1693
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 320
1927 - 1986
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 321
1886 - 1953
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 322
1940 - 2021
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 323
1933 - Present
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 324
1878 - 1948
HPI: 58.27
Rank: 325
1918 - 1993
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 326
1904 - 1989
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 327
1920 - 1989
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 328
1442 - 1500
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 329
1786 - 1865
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 330
1875 - 1953
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 331
1917 - 2000
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 332
Among politicians born in Japan, Kakuei Tanaka ranks 126. Before him are Ashikaga Yoshiaki (1537), Ko Yong-hui (1952), Yamato Takeru (72), Shigechiyo Izumi (1865), Emperor Fushimi (1265), and Kōki Hirota (1878). After him are Minoru Genda (1904), Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado (1442), Nobuyuki Abe (1875), Emperor Go-Toba (1180), Emperor Kōbun (648), and Emperor Go-Kameyama (1347).
1537 - 1597
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 120
1952 - 2004
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 121
72 - 113
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 122
1865 - 1865
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 123
1265 - 1317
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 124
1878 - 1948
HPI: 58.27
Rank: 125
1918 - 1993
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 126
1904 - 1989
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 127
1442 - 1500
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 128
1875 - 1953
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 129
1180 - 1239
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 130
648 - 672
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 131
1347 - 1424
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 132