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Shirase Nobu

1861 - 1946

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Nobu Shirase (白瀬 矗, Shirase Nobu) (20 July 1861 – 4 September 1946) was a Japanese army officer and explorer. He led the first Japanese Antarctic Expedition, 1910–12, which reached a southern latitude of 80°5′, and made the first landing on the coast of King Edward VII Land. Shirase had harboured polar ambitions since boyhood. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shirase Nobu has received more than 44,518 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Shirase Nobu is the 1,373rd most popular military personnel (down from 1,231st in 2019), the 1,003rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 944th in 2019) and the 71st most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

Memorability Metrics

  • 45k

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  • 49.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Shirase Nobu ranks 1,373 out of 1,468. Before him are William D. Leahy, Datames, Nikolay Shchors, Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer, Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu, and Ronald Speirs. After him are Vladimir Tributs, Richard Marcinko, Kanhoji Angre, Henry Maitland Wilson, Franciszek Kleeberg, and Walter Bedell Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Shirase Nobu ranks 92. Before him are Ludwig Thuille, József Rippl-Rónai, Saovabha Phongsri, Lucien Simon, Fanny Brate, and Richard Sears. After him are Prafulla Chandra Ray, Hannes Hafstein, Makino Nobuaki, Frederic Remington, Ernest Renshaw, and Mikhail Matyushin. Among people deceased in 1946, Shirase Nobu ranks 138. Before him are Georg Åberg, Safiya Zaghloul, Raimu, Amir Hamzah, Carl Gustav Witt, and Holger Thiele. After him are Júlio Prestes, Juan Bautista Sacasa, Arthur Dove, Charles Despiau, Carl Theodor Zahle, and Frederick W. Lanchester.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shirase Nobu ranks 1,003 out of 6,048. Before him are Ichirō Nagai (1931), Edwin O. Reischauer (1910), Miyuki Nakajima (1952), Hidetsugu Yagi (1886), Masuji Ibuse (1898), and Yukio Ozaki (1858). After him are Kyusaku Ogino (1882), Tsuneko Okazaki (1933), Ryuzo Hiraki (1931), Shinichi Hoshi (1926), Saburō Kawabuchi (1936), and Mutsu Munemitsu (1844).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Shirase Nobu ranks 71. Before him are Shigeyoshi Inoue (1889), Oku Yasukata (1847), Akashi Motojiro (1864), Kuroki Tamemoto (1844), Kiyonao Ichiki (1892), and Jinichi Kusaka (1888). After him are Kiichiro Higuchi (1888), Kiyotake Kawaguchi (1892), Nozu Michitsura (1840), and George W. Casey Jr. (1948).

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