1892 - 1959
Surgeon General Shirō Ishii (石井 四郎, Ishii Shirō, [iɕiː ɕiɾoː]; 15 June 1892 – 9 October 1959) was a Japanese microbiologist, army medical officer, and war criminal who served as the director of Unit 731, a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army. Ishii led the development and application of biological weapons at Unit 731 in Manchukuo during the Second Sino-Japanese War from 1937 to 1945, including the bubonic plague attacks at Chinese cities of Changde and Ningbo, and planned the Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night biological attack against the United States. Ishii and Unit 731 engaged in forced human experimentation on civilians and prisoners of war that resulted in the death of over 10,000 people, and were responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes of Imperial Japan during the Pacific War. Ishii and Unit 731 were granted immunity in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East by the United States government in exchange for information and research for the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shirō Ishii has received more than 1,171,569 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Shirō Ishii is the 65th most popular physician (up from 89th in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from Japan (up from 82nd in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Physician.
Shirō Ishii is most famous for his experiments on humans in Unit 731. He experimented on humans by injecting them with various diseases and chemicals to see how they would react.
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Among physicians, Shirō Ishii ranks 65 out of 509. Before him are Gerhard Domagk, Christiaan Eijkman, Francesco Redi, Robert Bellarmine, Albert Sabin, and Louis Auguste Blanqui. After him are Hilary of Poitiers, Róbert Bárány, Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Cyril of Jerusalem, Frederick Banting, and Albert Szent-Györgyi.
1895 - 1964
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 59
1858 - 1930
HPI: 74.02
Rank: 60
1626 - 1697
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 61
1542 - 1621
HPI: 73.93
Rank: 62
1906 - 1993
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 63
1805 - 1881
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 64
1892 - 1959
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 65
315 - 367
HPI: 73.71
Rank: 66
1876 - 1936
HPI: 73.41
Rank: 67
1787 - 1869
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 68
313 - 386
HPI: 73.32
Rank: 69
1891 - 1941
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 70
1893 - 1986
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 71
Among people born in 1892, Shirō Ishii ranks 31. Before him are Marina Tsvetaeva, George Paget Thomson, Robert Ritter von Greim, Edward Victor Appleton, Darius Milhaud, and Mátyás Rákosi. After him are Erhard Milch, Arthur Friedenreich, Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, Erwin Panofsky, Stefan Banach, and Andrey Yeryomenko. Among people deceased in 1959, Shirō Ishii ranks 15. Before him are Errol Flynn, Boris Vian, Camilo Cienfuegos, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Billie Holiday, and George Grosz. After him are Adolf Windaus, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Bohuslav Martinů, Alfred Schütz, and Edward C. Tolman.
1892 - 1941
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 25
1892 - 1975
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 26
1892 - 1945
HPI: 73.95
Rank: 27
1892 - 1965
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 28
1892 - 1974
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 29
1892 - 1971
HPI: 73.88
Rank: 30
1892 - 1959
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 31
1892 - 1972
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 32
1892 - 1969
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 33
1892 - 1980
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 34
1892 - 1968
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 35
1892 - 1945
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 36
1892 - 1970
HPI: 72.66
Rank: 37
1909 - 1959
HPI: 74.64
Rank: 9
1920 - 1959
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 10
1932 - 1959
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 11
1887 - 1959
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 12
1915 - 1959
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 13
1893 - 1959
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 14
1892 - 1959
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 15
1876 - 1959
HPI: 73.36
Rank: 16
1936 - 1959
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 17
1941 - 1959
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 18
1890 - 1959
HPI: 72.47
Rank: 19
1899 - 1959
HPI: 72.26
Rank: 20
1886 - 1959
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 21
Among people born in Japan, Shirō Ishii ranks 70 out of 5,560. Before him are Natsume Sōseki (1867), Emperor Suizei (-669), Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891), Empress Michiko (1934), Tōgō Heihachirō (1848), and Benkei (1155). After him are Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), Kenzō Tange (1913), Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916), Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837), Nichiren (1222), and Dōgen (1200).
1867 - 1916
HPI: 73.90
Rank: 64
669 BC - 548 BC
HPI: 73.88
Rank: 65
1891 - 1945
HPI: 73.78
Rank: 66
1934 - Present
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 67
1848 - 1934
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 68
1155 - 1189
HPI: 73.73
Rank: 69
1892 - 1959
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 70
1954 - Present
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 71
1913 - 2005
HPI: 73.58
Rank: 72
1916 - 2010
HPI: 73.25
Rank: 73
1837 - 1913
HPI: 73.24
Rank: 74
1222 - 1282
HPI: 73.14
Rank: 75
1200 - 1253
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 76
Among physicians born in Japan, Shirō Ishii ranks 1. After him are Kitasato Shibasaburō (1853), Hakaru Hashimoto (1881), Tasuku Honjo (1942), Shinya Yamanaka (1962), Hiraga Gennai (1728), Kiyoshi Shiga (1871), Kusumoto Ine (1827), Shinobu Ishihara (1879), and Akira Endo (1933).
1892 - 1959
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 1
1853 - 1931
HPI: 69.88
Rank: 2
1881 - 1934
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 3
1942 - Present
HPI: 64.03
Rank: 4
1962 - Present
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 5
1728 - 1780
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 6
1871 - 1957
HPI: 62.06
Rank: 7
1827 - 1903
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 8
1879 - 1963
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 9
1933 - Present
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 10