1937 - 2000
Keizō Obuchi (小渕 恵三, Obuchi Keizō, 25 June 1937 – 14 May 2000) was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1998 to 2000. Obuchi was elected to the House of Representatives in Gunma Prefecture in 1963, becoming the youngest legislator in Japanese history, and was re-elected to his seat eleven times. Obuchi rose through the ranks of the Liberal Democratic Party and distinguished himself in the prominent posts of Chief Cabinet Secretary and Minister for Foreign Affairs in the 1980s and 1990s. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Keizō Obuchi has received more than 302,663 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Keizō Obuchi is the 5,482nd most popular politician (down from 5,258th in 2019), the 365th most popular biography from Japan (up from 381st in 2019) and the 145th most popular Japanese Politician.
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Among politicians, Keizō Obuchi ranks 5,482 out of 15,577. Before him are Ali Hassan Salameh, Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano, Erich Naumann, Emperor Houshao of Han, László Csatáry, and Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge. After him are Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark, Beatriz, Duchess of Viseu, Jinseong of Silla, Berthold, Duke of Bavaria, Hadji Murad, and Beatrice of Castile.
1940 - 1979
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 5,476
1770 - 1800
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 5,477
1905 - 1951
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 5,478
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 5,479
1915 - 2013
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 5,480
1375 - 1415
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 5,481
1937 - 2000
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 5,482
1876 - 1940
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 5,483
1430 - 1506
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 5,484
865 - 897
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 5,485
905 - 947
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 5,486
1795 - 1852
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 5,487
1293 - 1359
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 5,488
Among people born in 1937, Keizō Obuchi ranks 85. Before him are Maryse Condé, Shirley Bassey, Tony Burton, Tom Simpson, Billy Dee Williams, and Boris Pugo. After him are Song Hye-rim, Dragoslav Šekularac, Cornelius A. Smith, Richard Møller Nielsen, Bruce McCandless II, and Ryutaro Hashimoto. Among people deceased in 2000, Keizō Obuchi ranks 57. Before him are Loretta Young, Lolo Ferrari, A. E. van Vogt, Hirokazu Ninomiya, Lazar Koliševski, and Akira Nozawa. After him are Maurice Richard, Don Budge, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Giorgio Bassani, Noboru Takeshita, and Ion Gheorghe Maurer.
1937 - Present
HPI: 58.49
Rank: 79
1937 - Present
HPI: 58.48
Rank: 80
1937 - 2016
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 81
1937 - 1967
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 82
1937 - Present
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 83
1937 - 1991
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 84
1937 - 2000
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 85
1937 - 2002
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 86
1937 - 2019
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 87
1937 - Present
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 88
1937 - 2014
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 89
1937 - 2017
HPI: 57.62
Rank: 90
1937 - 2006
HPI: 57.55
Rank: 91
1913 - 2000
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 51
1963 - 2000
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 52
1912 - 2000
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 53
1917 - 2000
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 54
1914 - 2000
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 55
1914 - 2000
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 56
1937 - 2000
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 57
1921 - 2000
HPI: 57.79
Rank: 58
1915 - 2000
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 59
1922 - 2000
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 60
1916 - 2000
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 61
1924 - 2000
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 62
1902 - 2000
HPI: 57.19
Rank: 63
Among people born in Japan, Keizō Obuchi ranks 365 out of 6,048. Before him are Azai Nagamasa (1545), Inukai Tsuyoshi (1855), Torakusu Yamaha (1851), Kenichi Fukui (1918), Hirohiko Araki (1960), and Takijirō Ōnishi (1891). After him are Masao Takada (null), Hishikawa Moronobu (1618), Takeshi Natori (null), Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859), Emperor Nijō (1143), and Kuroda Kiyotaka (1840).
1545 - 1573
HPI: 57.86
Rank: 359
1855 - 1932
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 360
1851 - 1916
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 361
1918 - 1998
HPI: 57.83
Rank: 362
1960 - Present
HPI: 57.83
Rank: 363
1891 - 1945
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 364
1937 - 2000
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 365
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 366
1618 - 1694
HPI: 57.79
Rank: 367
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 368
1859 - 1940
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 369
1143 - 1165
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 370
1840 - 1900
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 371
Among politicians born in Japan, Keizō Obuchi ranks 145. Before him are Emperor Go-Uda (1267), Oichi (1547), Empress Masako (1963), Emperor Uda (867), Azai Nagamasa (1545), and Inukai Tsuyoshi (1855). After him are Emperor Nijō (1143), Kuroda Kiyotaka (1840), Inejiro Asanuma (1898), Kiichi Miyazawa (1919), Ichirō Hatoyama (1883), and Shimazu Yoshihiro (1535).
1267 - 1324
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 139
1547 - 1583
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 140
1963 - Present
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 141
867 - 931
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 142
1545 - 1573
HPI: 57.86
Rank: 143
1855 - 1932
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 144
1937 - 2000
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 145
1143 - 1165
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 146
1840 - 1900
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 147
1898 - 1960
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 148
1919 - 2007
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 149
1883 - 1959
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 150
1535 - 1619
HPI: 57.65
Rank: 151