1879 - 1963
Shinobu Ishihara (石原 忍, Ishihara Shinobu, September 25, 1879 – January 3, 1963) was a Japanese ophthalmologist who created the Ishihara color test to detect colour blindness. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shinobu Ishihara has received more than 85,870 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Shinobu Ishihara is the 473rd most popular physician (down from 427th in 2019), the 1,034th most popular biography from Japan (down from 978th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Japanese Physician.
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Among physicians, Shinobu Ishihara ranks 473 out of 502. Before him are Richard Bright, Antonio Scarpa, Antonio Bertoloni, Anastasia Golovina, Luca Ghini, and Constantin von Economo. After him are Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet, Benjamin Rush, Carlo Urbani, Serenus Sammonicus, Wladimir Aïtoff, and Julius Friedrich Cohnheim.
1789 - 1858
HPI: 49.14
Rank: 467
1752 - 1832
HPI: 49.10
Rank: 468
1775 - 1868
HPI: 49.09
Rank: 469
1850 - 1933
HPI: 48.96
Rank: 470
1490 - 1556
HPI: 48.95
Rank: 471
1876 - 1931
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 472
1879 - 1963
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 473
1816 - 1892
HPI: 48.82
Rank: 474
1745 - 1813
HPI: 48.78
Rank: 475
1956 - 2003
HPI: 48.77
Rank: 476
200 - 212
HPI: 48.77
Rank: 477
1879 - 1963
HPI: 48.74
Rank: 478
1839 - 1884
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 479
Among people born in 1879, Shinobu Ishihara ranks 138. Before him are Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni, Petros Persakis, Ruth St. Denis, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Martin Mutschmann, and Eugène Lanti. After him are Cyril Scott, Wladimir Aïtoff, Will Rogers, Ellen Gleditsch, Joseph Avenol, and Rafael Erich. Among people deceased in 1963, Shinobu Ishihara ranks 115. Before him are Erich Ollenhauer, Melville J. Herskovits, Benny Moré, Mary Agnes Chase, Hugh O'Flaherty, and Barnum Brown. After him are Marie Marvingt, Wladimir Aïtoff, Ulises Saucedo, John Farrow, Aleksandr Gerasimov, and Louis Bastien.
1879 - 1968
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 132
1879 - 1952
HPI: 49.50
Rank: 133
1879 - 1968
HPI: 49.50
Rank: 134
1879 - 1962
HPI: 49.12
Rank: 135
1879 - 1947
HPI: 49.11
Rank: 136
1879 - 1947
HPI: 48.97
Rank: 137
1879 - 1963
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 138
1879 - 1970
HPI: 48.77
Rank: 139
1879 - 1963
HPI: 48.74
Rank: 140
1879 - 1935
HPI: 48.35
Rank: 141
1879 - 1968
HPI: 48.13
Rank: 142
1879 - 1952
HPI: 48.10
Rank: 143
1879 - 1946
HPI: 47.88
Rank: 144
1901 - 1963
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 109
1895 - 1963
HPI: 49.24
Rank: 110
1919 - 1963
HPI: 49.22
Rank: 111
1869 - 1963
HPI: 49.21
Rank: 112
1898 - 1963
HPI: 48.99
Rank: 113
1873 - 1963
HPI: 48.98
Rank: 114
1879 - 1963
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 115
1875 - 1963
HPI: 48.84
Rank: 116
1879 - 1963
HPI: 48.74
Rank: 117
1896 - 1963
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 118
1904 - 1963
HPI: 48.67
Rank: 119
1881 - 1963
HPI: 48.62
Rank: 120
1881 - 1963
HPI: 48.36
Rank: 121
Among people born in Japan, Shinobu Ishihara ranks 1,034 out of 6,048. Before him are Hiro Mashima (1977), Torii Kiyonobu I (1664), Kinue Hitomi (1907), Yukio Kasaya (1943), Gotō Shōjirō (1838), and Yoshiki Tanaka (1952). After him are Keizo Imai (1950), Tōru Furuya (1953), Ryozo Suzuki (1939), Tadao Onishi (1943), Sumio Iijima (1939), and Masayuki Mori (1911).
1977 - Present
HPI: 48.96
Rank: 1,028
1664 - 1729
HPI: 48.96
Rank: 1,029
1907 - 1931
HPI: 48.95
Rank: 1,030
1943 - Present
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 1,031
1838 - 1897
HPI: 48.89
Rank: 1,032
1952 - Present
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 1,033
1879 - 1963
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 1,034
1950 - Present
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 1,035
1953 - Present
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 1,036
1939 - Present
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 1,037
1943 - 2006
HPI: 48.82
Rank: 1,038
1939 - Present
HPI: 48.82
Rank: 1,039
1911 - 1973
HPI: 48.79
Rank: 1,040
Among physicians born in Japan, Shinobu Ishihara ranks 12. Before him are Kusumoto Ine (1827), Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), Kiyoshi Shiga (1871), Hiraga Gennai (1728), Sunao Tawara (1873), and Kyusaku Ogino (1882). After him are Akira Endo (1933) and Yoshioka Yayoi (1871).
1827 - 1903
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 6
1928 - 2013
HPI: 51.18
Rank: 7
1871 - 1957
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 8
1728 - 1780
HPI: 50.76
Rank: 9
1873 - 1952
HPI: 50.40
Rank: 10
1882 - 1975
HPI: 49.25
Rank: 11
1879 - 1963
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 12
1933 - Present
HPI: 46.40
Rank: 13
1871 - 1959
HPI: 42.83
Rank: 14