MILITARY PERSONNEL

Saitō Hajime

1844 - 1915

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Saitō Hajime (斎藤 一) (born Yamaguchi Hajime (山口 一); February 18, 1844 – September 28, 1915) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period, who most famously served as the captain of the third unit of the Shinsengumi. He was one of the few core members who survived the numerous wars of the Bakumatsu period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saitō Hajime has received more than 677,794 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Saitō Hajime is the 537th most popular military personnel (up from 564th in 2019), the 309th most popular biography from Japan (down from 290th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Saitō Hajime ranks 537 out of 2,058. Before him are Lautaro, Tamara Bunke, Callimachus, Henri de la Rochejaquelein, Julian, Count of Ceuta, and Walter Rauff. After him are Pavel Batitsky, John Hawkins, Friedrich Dollmann, Jawhar, Heinz Lammerding, and Ivan Yakubovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Saitō Hajime ranks 32. Before him are `Abdu'l-Bahá, Abdur Rahman Khan, Julius Wellhausen, Adolf Engler, Charles-Émile Reynaud, and Sophia Tolstaya. After him are Thomas Eakins, Henry J. Heinz, Victorine Meurent, William Robert Brooks, Mihály Munkácsy, and Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Among people deceased in 1915, Saitō Hajime ranks 18. Before him are Wilhelm Windelband, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, Michel Bréal, Émile Waldteufel, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, and Armand Peugeot. After him are James Murray, Sergei Taneyev, Anton von Werner, Remy de Gourmont, Arthur Auwers, and Nadežda Petrović.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Saitō Hajime ranks 309 out of 6,245. Before him are Ryōji Noyori (1938), Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado (1442), Emperor Sushun (520), Empress Teimei (1884), Ikkyū (1394), and Nobuyoshi Araki (1940). After him are Takahito, Prince Mikasa (1915), Emperor Fushimi (1265), Waichiro Omura (1933), Go Nagai (1945), Jiroemon Kimura (1897), and Emperor Seiwa (850).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Saitō Hajime ranks 28. Before him are Mitsuru Ushijima (1887), Nogi Maresuke (1849), Shoichi Yokoi (1915), Honda Tadakatsu (1548), Tamon Yamaguchi (1892), and Hijikata Toshizō (1835). After him are Mitsuo Fuchida (1902), Kawakami Gensai (1834), Seishirō Itagaki (1885), Jisaburō Ozawa (1886), Saburō Sakai (1916), and Kenji Doihara (1883).

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