1885 - 1946
Tomoyuki Yamashita (山下 奉文, Yamashita Tomoyuki, 8 November 1885 – 23 February 1946; also called Tomobumi Yamashita) was a Japanese convicted war criminal and general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Yamashita led Japanese forces during the invasion of Malaya and Battle of Singapore, his conquest of Malaya and Singapore in 70 days earned him the sobriquet "The Tiger of Malaya" and led to the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill calling the ignominious fall of Singapore to Japan the "worst disaster" and "largest capitulation" in British military history. Yamashita was assigned to defend the Philippines from the advancing Allies later in the war. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tomoyuki Yamashita has received more than 1,827,490 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Tomoyuki Yamashita is the 296th most popular military personnel, the 104th most popular biography from Japan and the 15th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.
Tomoyuki Yamashita was a Japanese general who was in charge of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. He is most famous for his involvement in the war and his occupation of the Philippines.
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Among military personnels, Tomoyuki Yamashita ranks 296 out of 1,468. Before him are Jozef Gabčík, Meng Tian, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, Wilhelm Bittrich, and Robert Nivelle. After him are Qasem Soleimani, François Christophe de Kellermann, Hans-Joachim Marseille, Götz von Berlichingen, Toyotomi Hideyori, and Alexander Yegorov.
1912 - 1942
HPI: 63.68
Rank: 290
250 BC - 210 BC
HPI: 63.67
Rank: 291
1817 - 1895
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 292
1856 - 1929
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 293
1894 - 1979
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 294
1856 - 1924
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 295
1885 - 1946
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 296
1957 - 2020
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 297
1735 - 1820
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 298
1919 - 1942
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 299
1480 - 1562
HPI: 63.37
Rank: 300
1593 - 1615
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 301
1883 - 1939
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 302
Among people born in 1885, Tomoyuki Yamashita ranks 31. Before him are Heinrich Brüning, Sonia Delaunay, Karl Radek, Sabina Spielrein, Erich von Stroheim, and Luigi Russolo. After him are Hermann Weyl, George Minot, Alexander Löhr, Sinclair Lewis, Heinrich Hoffmann, and Hugo Boss. Among people deceased in 1946, Tomoyuki Yamashita ranks 36. Before him are Gilbert N. Lewis, Ananda Mahidol, László Moholy-Nagy, Felix Hoffmann, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, and Helene Schjerfbeck. After him are Wilhelm Marx, Milan Nedić, Ernest Thompson Seton, Empress Wanrong, Alfred Stieglitz, and Ignacy Mościcki.
1885 - 1970
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 25
1885 - 1979
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 26
1885 - 1939
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 27
1885 - 1942
HPI: 64.03
Rank: 28
1885 - 1957
HPI: 63.86
Rank: 29
1885 - 1947
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 30
1885 - 1946
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 31
1885 - 1955
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 32
1885 - 1950
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 33
1885 - 1947
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 34
1885 - 1951
HPI: 63.09
Rank: 35
1885 - 1957
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 36
1885 - 1948
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 37
1875 - 1946
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 30
1925 - 1946
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 31
1895 - 1946
HPI: 65.41
Rank: 32
1868 - 1946
HPI: 64.64
Rank: 33
1883 - 1946
HPI: 64.18
Rank: 34
1862 - 1946
HPI: 63.67
Rank: 35
1885 - 1946
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 36
1863 - 1946
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 37
1878 - 1946
HPI: 62.81
Rank: 38
1860 - 1946
HPI: 62.63
Rank: 39
1906 - 1946
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 40
1864 - 1946
HPI: 62.10
Rank: 41
1867 - 1946
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 42
Among people born in Japan, Tomoyuki Yamashita ranks 104 out of 6,048. Before him are Abe no Seimei (921), Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886), Kiichiro Toyoda (1894), Kenzō Takada (1939), Kazuyoshi Miura (1967), and Prince Shōtoku (574). After him are Sakamoto Ryōma (1836), Emperor Go-Kōmyō (1633), Emperor Kōshō (-505), Emperor Higashiyama (1675), Empress Meishō (1624), and Kōbō Abe (1924).
921 - 1005
HPI: 63.74
Rank: 98
1886 - 1965
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 99
1894 - 1952
HPI: 63.64
Rank: 100
1939 - 2020
HPI: 63.61
Rank: 101
1967 - Present
HPI: 63.61
Rank: 102
574 - 622
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 103
1885 - 1946
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 104
1836 - 1867
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 105
1633 - 1654
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 106
505 BC - 392 BC
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 107
1675 - 1710
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 108
1624 - 1696
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 109
1924 - 1993
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 110
Among military personnels born in Japan, Tomoyuki Yamashita ranks 15. Before him are Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891), Date Masamune (1567), Tōgō Heihachirō (1848), Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837), and Ishida Mitsunari (1559). After him are Toyotomi Hideyori (1593), Iwane Matsui (1878), Sanada Yukimura (1567), Shoichi Yokoi (1915), Yamagata Aritomo (1838), and Mitsuo Fuchida (1902).
1526 - 1582
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 9
1891 - 1945
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 10
1567 - 1636
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 11
1848 - 1934
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 12
1837 - 1913
HPI: 65.06
Rank: 13
1559 - 1600
HPI: 63.79
Rank: 14
1885 - 1946
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 15
1593 - 1615
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 16
1878 - 1948
HPI: 62.75
Rank: 17
1567 - 1615
HPI: 62.74
Rank: 18
1915 - 1997
HPI: 62.69
Rank: 19
1838 - 1922
HPI: 62.59
Rank: 20
1902 - 1976
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 21