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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Tokugawa Ieyasu

1542 - 1616

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Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川家康, January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616; born Matsudaira Takechiyo and later taking other names) was the founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was one of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fellow Oda subordinate Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The son of a minor daimyo, Ieyasu once lived as a hostage under daimyo Imagawa Yoshimoto on behalf of his father. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tokugawa Ieyasu has received more than 4,733,015 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia. Tokugawa Ieyasu is the 31st most popular military personnel (up from 39th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Japan and the 2nd most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

Tokugawa Ieyasu is most famous for his victory over his opponents in the Battle of Sekigahara, which led to the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Tokugawa Ieyasu ranks 31 out of 1,468Before him are Charles XIV John of Sweden, Cesare Borgia, Simo Häyhä, Jochi, Wilhelm Keitel, and Friedrich Paulus. After him are Vercingetorix, Douglas MacArthur, Lü Bu, Baron Munchausen, Guan Yu, and Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1542, Tokugawa Ieyasu ranks 3Before him are Mary, Queen of Scots and Akbar. After him are John of the Cross, Hattori Hanzō, Robert Bellarmine, Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira, Isabella de' Medici, Mariam-uz-Zamani, Jan Zamoyski, Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona, and Henriette of Cleves. Among people deceased in 1616, Tokugawa Ieyasu ranks 3Before him are William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes. After him are Maria Anna of Bavaria, Vincenzo Scamozzi, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Jacob Le Maire, Simeon Bekbulatovich, John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Andreas Libavius, Magdalene of Brandenburg, and Johannes Fabricius.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tokugawa Ieyasu ranks 13 out of 6,048Before him are Oda Nobunaga (1534), Emperor Meiji (1852), Kanō Jigorō (1860), Yukio Mishima (1925), Matsuo Bashō (1644), and Haruki Murakami (1949). After him are Naruhito (1960), Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536), Murasaki Shikibu (973), Isoroku Yamamoto (1884), Emperor Taishō (1879), and Osamu Dazai (1909).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Tokugawa Ieyasu ranks 2Before him are Oda Nobunaga (1534). After him are Isoroku Yamamoto (1884), Hiroo Onoda (1922), Hattori Hanzō (1542), Saigō Takamori (1828), Chūichi Nagumo (1887), Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891), Date Masamune (1567), and Tōgō Heihachirō (1848).