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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Sanada Yukimura

1567 - 1615

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Sanada Nobushige (真田 信繁, 1567 – June 3, 1615), also known as Sanada Yukimura (真田 幸村), was a Japanese samurai warrior of the Sengoku period. He was especially known as the leading general on the defending side of the Siege of Osaka. Yukimura was called "A Hero who may appear once in a hundred years", "Crimson Demon of War" and "The Last Sengoku Hero". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sanada Yukimura has received more than 904,332 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Sanada Yukimura is the 332nd most popular military personnel (down from 281st in 2019), the 127th most popular biography from Japan (down from 97th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

Sanada Yukimura is most famous for being a samurai warrior who fought in the Siege of Osaka.

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  • 900k

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  • 62.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Sanada Yukimura ranks 332 out of 1,468. Before him are Bahram Chobin, Charles François Dumouriez, Roger de Flor, Walther Wenck, Ivan Paskevich, and Iwane Matsui. After him are Hugo Sperrle, Shoichi Yokoi, Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, Friedrich Dollmann, Titus Labienus, and Yamagata Aritomo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1567, Sanada Yukimura ranks 7. Before him are Claudio Monteverdi, Francis de Sales, Maurice, Prince of Orange, Date Masamune, Samuel de Champlain, and Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain. After him are Jacques Clément, Willem Schouten, Eleanor de' Medici, Jindřich Matyáš Thurn, Honoré d'Urfé, and Jacob van Heemskerck. Among people deceased in 1615, Sanada Yukimura ranks 4. Before him are Margaret of Valois, Hans von Aachen, and Toyotomi Hideyori. After him are Giambattista della Porta, Heo Jun, Dom Justo Takayama, Virginia de' Medici, Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Claudio Acquaviva, and Pieter Both.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sanada Yukimura ranks 127 out of 6,048. Before him are Emperor Nintoku (290), Emperor Kōrei (-341), Ken Watanabe (1959), Isamu Akasaki (1929), Jiro Horikoshi (1903), and Iwane Matsui (1878). After him are Shoichi Yokoi (1915), Momofuku Ando (1910), Yamagata Aritomo (1838), Issei Sagawa (1949), Sakichi Toyoda (1867), and Emperor Suinin (-69).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Sanada Yukimura ranks 18. Before him are Tōgō Heihachirō (1848), Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837), Ishida Mitsunari (1559), Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885), Toyotomi Hideyori (1593), and Iwane Matsui (1878). After him are Shoichi Yokoi (1915), Yamagata Aritomo (1838), Mitsuo Fuchida (1902), Honda Tadakatsu (1548), Mitsuru Ushijima (1887), and Kawakami Gensai (1834).

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