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Tanaka Hisashige

1799 - 1881

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Hisashige Tanaka (田中 久重, October 16, 1799 – November 7, 1881) was a Japanese businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and rangaku scholar who was prominent during the Bakumatsu and early Meiji period in Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tanaka Hisashige has received more than 133,326 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Tanaka Hisashige is the 373rd most popular businessperson, the 964th most popular biography from Japan and the 16th most popular Japanese Businessperson.

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  • 130k

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  • 58.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Tanaka Hisashige ranks 373 out of 847. Before him are Satya Nadella, Mark Thatcher, Tommy Mottola, Ray Dalio, Cyrus West Field, and Christophe de Margerie. After him are Naguib Sawiris, Susanne Klatten, Franklin Clarence Mars, Mikhail Prokhorov, Johann Carolus, and Andrew Tate.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Tanaka Hisashige ranks 34. Before him are Ignaz von Döllinger, François-Auguste Biard, Henri Druey, Ferdinand Reich, Petrache Poenaru, and Robert von Mohl. After him are George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Alexander Petrov, Nathaniel Palmer, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, Manuel Bulnes, and Joachim Barrande. Among people deceased in 1881, Tanaka Hisashige ranks 58. Before him are Karl Weyprecht, Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, Konstantin Thon, Ambrose Burnside, and Johann Kaspar Bluntschli. After him are Karl Christian Bruhns, Alexandru G. Golescu, Ercole Dembowski, Aleksey Pisemsky, Andrei Zhelyabov, and Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tanaka Hisashige ranks 964 out of 6,245. Before him are Ryozo Suzuki (1939), Chieko Baisho (1941), Satoru Nakajima (1953), Kanō Motonobu (1476), Kafū Nagai (1879), and Yukio Endo (1937). After him are Shiro Misaki (null), Yoshiichi Watanabe (1954), Kenzo Yokoyama (1943), Mitsuteru Yokoyama (1934), Nobuko Yoshiya (1896), and Sayako Kuroda (1969).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Japan

Among businesspeople born in Japan, Tanaka Hisashige ranks 16. Before him are Shibusawa Eiichi (1840), Eiji Toyoda (1913), Mikimoto Kōkichi (1858), Tadashi Yanai (1949), Norio Ohga (1930), and Akio Toyoda (1956). After him are Tatsumi Kimishima (1950), Kaz Hirai (1960), Masaji Kiyokawa (1913), Hiro Matsushita (1961), Hiroshi Mikitani (1965), and Shuntaro Furukawa (1972).

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