POLITICIAN

Ōtomo Sōrin

1530 - 1587

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Ōtomo Sōrin (大友 宗麟, January 31, 1530 – June 11, 1587), also known as Fujiwara no Yoshishige (藤原 義鎮) or Ōtomo Yoshishige (大友 義鎮), was a Japanese feudal lord (daimyō) of the Ōtomo clan, one of the few to have converted to Catholicism. The eldest son of Ōtomo Yoshiaki, he inherited the Funai Domain, on Kyūshū, Japan's southernmost main island, from his father. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ōtomo Sōrin has received more than 179,391 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Ōtomo Sōrin is the 9,237th most popular politician, the 742nd most popular biography from Japan and the 273rd most popular Japanese Politician.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ōtomo Sōrin ranks 9,237 out of 19,576. Before him are Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Wilfrid Laurier, Pierre Buyoya, Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Vladimir Bakarić, and Amalafrida. After him are Bohemond VII of Antioch, Messali Hadj, Marcus Livius Salinator, John I Doukas of Thessaly, Neidhart von Reuental, and Ferenc Nagy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1530, Ōtomo Sōrin ranks 18. Before him are Christopher Báthory, Juan de Herrera, Starina Novak, Giambattista Benedetti, Kuyucu Murad Pasha, and Symon Budny. After him are Ranuccio Farnese, Grace O'Malley, Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow, Nicholas Rémy, and John Shakespeare. Among people deceased in 1587, Ōtomo Sōrin ranks 8. Before him are Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Occhiali, Gotthard Kettler, Bianca Cappello, Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, and Felix of Cantalice. After him are Ōmura Sumitada, Hai Rui, John Foxe, Francisco Hernández de Toledo, Caspar Olevian, and Juraj Drašković.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ōtomo Sōrin ranks 742 out of 6,245. Before him are Kanō Eitoku (1543), Hiroshi Inagaki (1905), Soga no Umako (551), Ashikaga Yoshinori (1394), Torii Kiyonaga (1752), and Kōdō Sawaki (1880). After him are Okakura Kakuzō (1862), Koichi Oita (1914), Tomoyasu Asaoka (1962), Shinya Yamanaka (1962), Tsutomu Miyazaki (1962), and Eiji Toyoda (1913).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Ōtomo Sōrin ranks 273. Before him are Katō Tomosaburō (1861), Yamamoto Kansuke (1493), Tanzan Ishibashi (1884), Donald Tsang (1944), Kisshomaru Ueshiba (1921), and Ashikaga Yoshinori (1394). After him are Prince Hisaaki (1276), Atsuko Ikeda (1931), Ōmura Sumitada (1533), Osachi Hamaguchi (1870), Prince Munetaka (1242), and Matsudaira Katamori (1836).

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