1915 - 1997
Shōichi Yokoi (横井 庄一, Yokoi Shōichi, 31 March 1915 – 22 September 1997) was a sergeant in the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during the Second World War, and was among the last three Japanese holdouts to be found after the end of hostilities in 1945. He was discovered in the jungles of Guam on 24 January 1972, almost 28 years after U.S. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shoichi Yokoi has received more than 769,702 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Shoichi Yokoi is the 350th most popular military personnel (up from 433rd in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from Japan (up from 224th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.
Page Views (PV)
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
Languages Editions (L)
Effective Languages (L*)
Coefficient of Variation (CV)
Among military personnels, Shoichi Yokoi ranks 350 out of 1,466. Before him are Mamai, Juan Pujol García, Vasily Sokolovsky, Bronislav Kaminski, Heinrich von Vietinghoff, and Giovanni Messe. After him are Meng Tian, Jonas Savimbi, Emilio De Bono, Xu Huang, Johannes Frießner, and Qutayba ibn Muslim.
1335 - 1380
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 344
1912 - 1988
HPI: 70.78
Rank: 345
1897 - 1968
HPI: 70.78
Rank: 346
1899 - 1944
HPI: 70.77
Rank: 347
1887 - 1952
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 348
1883 - 1968
HPI: 70.75
Rank: 349
1915 - 1997
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 350
250 BC - 210 BC
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 351
1934 - 2002
HPI: 70.72
Rank: 352
1866 - 1944
HPI: 70.68
Rank: 353
169 - 227
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 354
1892 - 1971
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 355
668 - 715
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 356
Among people born in 1915, Shoichi Yokoi ranks 33. Before him are Charles H. Townes, Robert A. Dahl, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Brother Roger, Bob Kane, and Robert Hofstadter. After him are Helmut Schön, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., Aziz Nesin, Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, Chung Ju-yung, and W. Arthur Lewis. Among people deceased in 1997, Shoichi Yokoi ranks 40. Before him are Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, Edward Mills Purcell, Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, Alfred Hershey, Nikolai Tikhonov, and Chien-Shiung Wu. After him are Cornelius Castoriadis, John Denver, Dodi Fayed, John Eccles, Chaim Herzog, and Marco Ferreri.
1915 - 2015
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 27
1915 - 2014
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 28
1915 - 2006
HPI: 71.21
Rank: 29
1915 - 2005
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 30
1915 - 1998
HPI: 71.04
Rank: 31
1915 - 1990
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 32
1915 - 1997
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 33
1915 - 1996
HPI: 70.63
Rank: 34
1915 - 2011
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 35
1915 - 1995
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 36
1915 - 2013
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 37
1915 - 2001
HPI: 70.13
Rank: 38
1915 - 1991
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 39
1903 - 1997
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 34
1912 - 1997
HPI: 70.99
Rank: 35
1912 - 1997
HPI: 70.97
Rank: 36
1908 - 1997
HPI: 70.85
Rank: 37
1905 - 1997
HPI: 70.84
Rank: 38
1912 - 1997
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 39
1915 - 1997
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 40
1922 - 1997
HPI: 70.63
Rank: 41
1943 - 1997
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 42
1955 - 1997
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 43
1903 - 1997
HPI: 70.30
Rank: 44
1918 - 1997
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 45
1928 - 1997
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 46
Among people born in Japan, Shoichi Yokoi ranks 128 out of 5,560. Before him are Kuniaki Koiso (1880), Arata Isozaki (1931), Momofuku Ando (1910), Toyotomi Hideyori (1593), Emperor Nintoku (290), and Masanobu Fukuoka (1913). After him are Emperor Kōrei (-341), Junichiro Koizumi (1942), Hisataka Okamoto (1933), Zeami Motokiyo (1363), Yoichiro Nambu (1921), and Kunishige Kamamoto (1944).
1880 - 1950
HPI: 71.03
Rank: 122
1931 - Present
HPI: 71.00
Rank: 123
1910 - 2007
HPI: 70.97
Rank: 124
1593 - 1615
HPI: 70.94
Rank: 125
290 - 399
HPI: 70.92
Rank: 126
1913 - 2008
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 127
1915 - 1997
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 128
341 BC - 214 BC
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 129
1942 - Present
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 130
1933 - Present
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 131
1363 - 1443
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 132
1921 - 2015
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 133
1944 - Present
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 134
Among military personnels born in Japan, Shoichi Yokoi ranks 20. Before him are Ishida Mitsunari (1559), Sanada Yukimura (1567), Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885), Yamagata Aritomo (1838), Iwane Matsui (1878), and Toyotomi Hideyori (1593). After him are Okita Sōji (1842), Honda Tadakatsu (1548), Mitsuru Ushijima (1887), Saburō Sakai (1916), Hijikata Toshizō (1835), and Tamon Yamaguchi (1892).
1559 - 1600
HPI: 72.12
Rank: 14
1567 - 1615
HPI: 71.98
Rank: 15
1885 - 1946
HPI: 71.62
Rank: 16
1838 - 1922
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 17
1878 - 1948
HPI: 71.10
Rank: 18
1593 - 1615
HPI: 70.94
Rank: 19
1915 - 1997
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 20
1842 - 1868
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 21
1548 - 1610
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 22
1887 - 1945
HPI: 69.34
Rank: 23
1916 - 2000
HPI: 69.19
Rank: 24
1835 - 1869
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 25
1892 - 1942
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 26