1838 - 1922
Gensui Prince Yamagata Aritomo (山縣 有朋, 14 June 1838 – 1 February 1922) also known as Prince Yamagata Kyōsuke, was a Japanese statesman and military commander who was twice-elected Prime Minister of Japan, and a leading member of the genrō, an élite group of senior statesmen who dominated Japanese politics after the Meiji Restoration. As the Imperial Japanese Army's inaugural Chief of Staff, he was the chief architect of the Empire of Japan's military and its reactionary ideology. For this reason, some historians consider Yamagata to be the “father” of Japanese militarism.During the latter part of the Meiji Era, Yamagata vied against Marquess Itō Hirobumi for control over the nation's policies. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yamagata Aritomo has received more than 460,796 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Yamagata Aritomo is the 338th most popular military personnel (down from 312th in 2019), the 130th most popular biography from Japan (down from 110th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.
Yamagata Aritomo is most famous for being the first Japanese prime minister to be born in Japan.
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Among military personnels, Yamagata Aritomo ranks 338 out of 1,468. Before him are Sanada Yukimura, Hugo Sperrle, Shoichi Yokoi, Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, Friedrich Dollmann, and Titus Labienus. After him are Giovanni Messe, Polyperchon, Baiju, Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, Italo Gariboldi, and Albert Pike.
1567 - 1615
HPI: 62.74
Rank: 332
1885 - 1953
HPI: 62.71
Rank: 333
1915 - 1997
HPI: 62.69
Rank: 334
1889 - 1962
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 335
1882 - 1944
HPI: 62.63
Rank: 336
100 BC - 45 BC
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 337
1838 - 1922
HPI: 62.59
Rank: 338
1883 - 1968
HPI: 62.58
Rank: 339
394 BC - 303 BC
HPI: 62.57
Rank: 340
1201 - 1300
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 341
1856 - 1941
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 342
1879 - 1970
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 343
1809 - 1891
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 344
Among people born in 1838, Yamagata Aritomo ranks 14. Before him are Luís I of Portugal, Jan Matejko, Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, Ernest Solvay, Émile Loubet, and Léon Gambetta. After him are Princess Louise of Prussia, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Liliʻuokalani, Ōkuma Shigenobu, and Camille Jordan. Among people deceased in 1922, Yamagata Aritomo ranks 20. Before him are Georges Sorel, Vittorio Monti, Ernest Solvay, Michael Collins, Nellie Bly, and Walther Rathenau. After him are Henri Désiré Landru, Andrey Markov, Rudolf Kjellén, Alessandro Moreschi, Léon Bonnat, and Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia.
1838 - 1889
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 8
1838 - 1893
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 9
1838 - 1894
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 10
1838 - 1922
HPI: 64.57
Rank: 11
1838 - 1929
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 12
1838 - 1882
HPI: 63.20
Rank: 13
1838 - 1922
HPI: 62.59
Rank: 14
1838 - 1923
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 15
1838 - 1894
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 16
1838 - 1889
HPI: 61.54
Rank: 17
1838 - 1917
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 18
1838 - 1922
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 19
1838 - 1922
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 20
1847 - 1922
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 14
1868 - 1922
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 15
1838 - 1922
HPI: 64.57
Rank: 16
1890 - 1922
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 17
1864 - 1922
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 18
1867 - 1922
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 19
1838 - 1922
HPI: 62.59
Rank: 20
1869 - 1922
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 21
1856 - 1922
HPI: 62.39
Rank: 22
1864 - 1922
HPI: 62.33
Rank: 23
1858 - 1922
HPI: 61.86
Rank: 24
1833 - 1922
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 25
1860 - 1922
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 26
Among people born in Japan, Yamagata Aritomo ranks 130 out of 6,048. Before him are Isamu Akasaki (1929), Jiro Horikoshi (1903), Iwane Matsui (1878), Sanada Yukimura (1567), Shoichi Yokoi (1915), and Momofuku Ando (1910). After him are Issei Sagawa (1949), Sakichi Toyoda (1867), Emperor Suinin (-69), Junko Tabei (1939), Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906), and Taira no Kiyomori (1118).
1929 - 2021
HPI: 62.86
Rank: 124
1903 - 1982
HPI: 62.81
Rank: 125
1878 - 1948
HPI: 62.75
Rank: 126
1567 - 1615
HPI: 62.74
Rank: 127
1915 - 1997
HPI: 62.69
Rank: 128
1910 - 2007
HPI: 62.67
Rank: 129
1838 - 1922
HPI: 62.59
Rank: 130
1949 - 2022
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 131
1867 - 1930
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 132
69 BC - 70
HPI: 62.55
Rank: 133
1939 - 2016
HPI: 62.53
Rank: 134
1906 - 1979
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 135
1118 - 1181
HPI: 62.43
Rank: 136
Among military personnels born in Japan, Yamagata Aritomo ranks 20. Before him are Ishida Mitsunari (1559), Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885), Toyotomi Hideyori (1593), Iwane Matsui (1878), Sanada Yukimura (1567), and Shoichi Yokoi (1915). After him are Mitsuo Fuchida (1902), Honda Tadakatsu (1548), Mitsuru Ushijima (1887), Kawakami Gensai (1834), Saburō Sakai (1916), and Okita Sōji (1842).
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
1548 - 1610
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 22
1887 - 1945
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 23
1834 - 1872
HPI: 60.72
Rank: 24
1916 - 2000
HPI: 60.38
Rank: 25
1842 - 1868
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 26