PHYSICIAN

Yoshioka Yayoi

1871 - 1959

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Yoshioka Yayoi (吉岡 彌生, April 29, 1871 – May 22, 1959) was a Japanese physician, educator, and women's rights activist. She founded the Tokyo Women's Medical University in 1900, as the first medical school for women in Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yoshioka Yayoi has received more than 25,507 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Yoshioka Yayoi is the 661st most popular physician (down from 581st in 2019), the 1,567th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,386th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Japanese Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Yoshioka Yayoi ranks 661 out of 726. Before her are Narendra Dabholkar, Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson, Mary Putnam Jacobi, William Stokes, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, and Harald Natvig. After her are Thomas Starzl, Abraham Jacobi, Thomas C. Jerdon, Priscilla Chan, Leila Denmark, and Kei Okami.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Yoshioka Yayoi ranks 162. Before her are Hermanus Brockmann, Winston Churchill, Heinrich Schroth, Henry Stephenson, Wilfred Lucas, and Max Bodenstein. After her are Clarence Hudson White, Poul Heegaard, Jack Butler Yeats, William Diller Matthew, John Sloan, and Eugen Burg. Among people deceased in 1959, Yoshioka Yayoi ranks 196. Before her are Gustaf Weidel, Arvid Spångberg, Eusebio Díaz, Nils Granfelt, Paul Günther, and Apsley Cherry-Garrard. After her are George Amick, Gilda Gray, Vincenzo Cardarelli, G. D. H. Cole, Jaroslav Skobla, and John August Anderson.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoshioka Yayoi ranks 1,567 out of 6,245. Before her are Takao Sakurai (1941), Hiroshi Mikitani (1965), Takuma Asano (1994), Seiji Ueda (1952), Fumito Ueda (1970), and Rumi Utsugi (1988). After her are Takashi Yokoyama (1913), Jun'ichi Kōuchi (1886), Yahiro Kazama (1961), Takayoshi Yamano (1955), Mika Nakashima (1983), and Keiko Matsui (1961).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Japan

Among physicians born in Japan, Yoshioka Yayoi ranks 13. Before her are Kusumoto Ine (1827), Shinobu Ishihara (1879), Kiyoshi Shiga (1871), Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), Kyusaku Ogino (1882), and Sunao Tawara (1873). After her are Kei Okami (1859).

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