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Yamada Nagamasa

1590 - 1630

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Yamada Nagamasa (山田 長政, 1590–1630) was a Japanese adventurer who gained considerable influence in the Ayutthaya Kingdom at the beginning of the 17th century and became the governor of Nakhon Si Thammarat province, which is on the Malay Peninsula in present-day Southern Thailand. From 1617 until his death in 1630, Yamada Nagamasa was head of the Thai village referred to as Ban Yipun ('Japanese village') in the Thai language. This village was within the city of Ayutthaya (the capital city of the Ayutthaya Kingdom). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yamada Nagamasa has received more than 251,729 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Yamada Nagamasa is the 7,425th most popular politician (down from 6,618th in 2019), the 582nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 502nd in 2019) and the 236th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yamada Nagamasa ranks 7,425 out of 19,576Before him are Roman of Bulgaria, Simone Boccanegra, Aripert I, Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Sati Beg, and Mir Jafar. After him are Mstislav of Chernigov, Mindon Min, Washington Luís, Conrad I, Count of Luxembourg, Li Yu, and José Antonio Páez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1590, Yamada Nagamasa ranks 9Before him are Pope Clement X, Mahfiruz Hatun, Simon Vouet, Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Gioachino Greco, and Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw. After him are Urbain Grandier, Jacob van Eyck, Théophile de Viau, John Albert II, Daniel Seghers, and María de Zayas. Among people deceased in 1630, Yamada Nagamasa ranks 12Before him are Henry Briggs, Johann Schein, Agrippa d'Aubigné, Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, Gioachino Greco, and Akile Hatun. After him are Esaias van de Velde, Tōdō Takatora, Johann Liss, Teodósio II, Duke of Braganza, Antonio Tempesta, and Salamone Rossi.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yamada Nagamasa ranks 582 out of 6,245Before him are Yasukazu Tanaka (1933), Masako Nozawa (1936), Mitsuko Uchida (1948), Ken Takakura (1931), Kinjiro Shimizu (null), and Eiji Tsuburaya (1901). After him are Ōtani Yoshitsugu (1559), Nitobe Inazō (1862), Kenwa Mabuni (1889), Emperor Reizei (949), Hitoshi Imamura (1886), and Toshio Iwatani (1925).

Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Yamada Nagamasa ranks 236Before him are Hosokawa Gracia (1563), Emperor Horikawa (1079), Shintaro Ishihara (1932), Uesugi Kagekatsu (1556), Emperor Suzaku (923), and Emperor Murakami (926). After him are Nitobe Inazō (1862), Emperor Reizei (949), Ukita Hideie (1573), Tsutomu Hata (1935), Hōjō Sōun (1432), and Hitoshi Ashida (1887).