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Trending Chefs in Japan — September 2026

The 98 most-viewed chefs on Wikipedia, September 2026 (Japanese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Akiyama Tokuzō. Data as of 26 October 2026.

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Wikipedia pageviews — complete hourly data from Wikimedia (CC0)
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September 2026 · Data as of 26 October 2026
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98 chefs — drawn from 1,411,216 articles Wikipedia recorded views for in this window

This counts a Wikipedia language edition, not a country's residents — Measured from the Japanese-language Wikipedia edition — readers worldwide, not residents of Japan. Nothing here is capped or sampled: it is every view Wikipedia published for these articles in the window. Rows carrying a 📰 badge add news coverage from GDELT; entity names and types come from Wikidata. Looking for what one country read? That is what the world reads — a different, capped measurement.

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217,791
Total Views (September 2026)
Period this week this month this year
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1
Akiyama Tokuzō
Japanese chef (1888-1974)
📚 1 citation
20,324
views
2
Rosanjin
Japanese artist (1883–1959)
📚 87 citations
18,466
views
3
Kenji Fujimoto
Japanese chef
📚 4 citations
12,785
views
4
Harumi Kurihara
Japanese chef
📚 7 citations
12,062
views
5
Shima Tassin
9,995
views
6
Mika Fukui
Japanese singer and culinary expert (1949-)
9,653
views
7
Kōta Kobayashi
Japanese former professional baseball player
8,519
views
8
Chen Kenichi
Japanese chef (1956-2023)
📚 2 citations
7,604
views
9
Toshihiko Yoroizuka
Japanese pastry chef (1965-)
6,721
views
10
Masashiro Kasahara
Japanese chef
6,449
views
11
Chen Kenmin
Japanese chef (1912-1990)
5,355
views
12
Rokusaburō Michiba
Japanese chef
4,603
views
13
Tomitoku Shū
Chinese cuisine chef
4,250
views
14
Tatsuya Kawagoe
Japanese chef and tarento
4,212
views
15
Takuya Yamamoto
Japanese chef
3,711
views
16
Yoshihiro Murata
Japanese chef with several Michelin stars
3,556
views
17
Shūsaku Toba
Japanese chef
3,313
views
18
Karl Joseph Wilhelm Juchheim
German confectioner (1886–1945)
📚 2 citations
3,143
views
19
Auguste Escoffier
Auguste Escoffier
French chef and culinary writer (1846–1935)
📚 13 citations
3,075
views
20
Sadaharu Aoki
Japanese chef patissier
2,958
views
21
Gordon Ramsay
British chef, restaurateur, and television personality (born 1966)
📚 27 citations 📰 6 stories · 2 sources
2,770
views
22
Graham Kerr
New Zealand chef
2,481
views
23
Hirohito Hayashi
Japanese pastry chef
2,401
views
24
Hiroyuki Sakai
Japanese chef
2,267
views
25
Kazuo Yamagishi
Japanese ramen chef
2,190
views
26
Joël Robuchon
French chef (1945–2018)
📚 15 citations
2,099
views
27
Hironobu Tsujiguchi
2,086
views
28
HEY!takuchan
Japanese impressionist
2,075
views
29
Katsuyo Kobayashi
Japanese celebrity chef
2,038
views
30
Kakeru Unabara
2,000
views
31
Norihiko Hara
1,930
views
32
Alain Ducasse
French chef
📚 12 citations
1,647
views
33
Osamu Ōtake
Japanese novelist
1,644
views
34
Kei Kobayashi
Japanese chef
1,583
views
35
Ai Hosokawa
Japanese chef
1,481
views
36
Enoden Bicycle Bro
nickname of a man subject to an Internet meme
1,433
views
37
Paul Bocuse
French chef (1926–2018)
📚 21 citations
1,378
views
38
Nusret Gökçe
Turkish chef and restaurateur (born 1983)
📚 3 citations
1,341
views
39
Nicholas Tse
Hong Kong singer, actor, songwriter and chef (born 1980)
📚 10 citations
1,303
views
40
Nobu Matsuhisa
Japanese chef
📚 6 citations
1,175
views
41
Koumei Nakamura
Japanese chef
1,175
views
42
Shūji Kimura
Japanese kidnapper killer (1950 - 1995)
📚 3 citations
1,158
views
43
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
📚 43 citations 📰 2 stories · 2 sources
1,147
views
44
Hikoaki Tan
Cantonese chef (1943-2022)
1,033
views
45
Yi Yin
Chinese chancellor
📚 1 citation
919
views
46
Morihide Yoshida
910
views
47
Pierre Hermé
Pastry chef-chocolatier
📚 12 citations
892
views
48
Yūji Wakiya
Japanese chef
891
views
49
Marie-Antoine Carême
Marie-Antoine Carême
French chef
📚 9 citations
888
views
50
Kazuhiko Tei
Taiwanese-Japanese cooking expert
881
views
51
Saly Weil
Swiss chef (1897-1976)
783
views
52
Hidemi Sugino
767
views
53
Paik Jong-won
South Korean chef, television personality and businessman
📚 2 citations
755
views
54
Francesco Bellissimo
Italian chef
📚 7 citations
741
views
55
Yi Ya
famous chef in the Chinese Spring and Autumn Period; a favorite of Duke Huan of Qi
📚 1 citation
711
views
56
Rachel Khoo
British cook, writer and broadcaster
📚 7 citations
695
views
57
Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye
American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian (1911–1987)
📚 21 citations
688
views
58
Yutaka Ishinabe
Japanese chef
688
views
59
Miyuki Igarashi
Japanese chef
663
views
60
Kumahachi Morino
644
views
61
Seinosuke Ōishi
Japanese physician (1867-1911)
620
views
62
Robert Berdella
American serial killer (1949–1992)
📚 2 citations
543
views
63
Ken'ichirō Nishi
Japanese chef
520
views
64
Masaharu Morimoto
Japanese chef (born 1955)
📚 4 citations
508
views
65
Kohei Japan
Japanese rap artist and hip hop emcee
496
views
66
Salvatore Cuomo
Italian Restaurateur
📚 1 citation
492
views
67
Jamie Oliver
British chef and media personality
📚 23 citations 📰 9 stories · 3 sources
489
views
68
Seth Rollins
American professional wrestler and actor
📚 3 citations
481
views
69
Yoshimi Hidaka
Japanese chef
473
views
70
Susumu Koyama
Japanese pastry chef
457
views
71
Masahiko Kobe
Japanese chef
421
views
72
Alain Chapel
French chef (1937–1990)
📚 6 citations
405
views
73
Mizuki Suginohara
Japanese pastry chef
371
views
74
Bernard Loiseau
French chef (1951–2003)
📚 12 citations
347
views
75
Mamoru Kataoka
Japanese chef, Italian restaurant owner
346
views
76
Yisrael Kristal
Holocaust survivor, oldest living man
📚 3 citations
333
views
77
Leonid Sednev
Russian chef
322
views
78
Yūji Ajiki
312
views
79
Shunji Ōmori
Japanese singer
280
views
80
Wolfgang Puck
Austrian-American chef and restaurateur
📚 9 citations
279
views
81
Shinsuke Nakajima
274
views
82
Ivan Kharitonov
Ivan Kharitonov
Russian saint (1870-1918)
📚 1 citation
273
views
83
Morito Ōmiya
Japanese ramen chef
267
views
84
Pierre Gagnaire
French chef
📚 11 citations
266
views
85
Rokusuke Take
Japanese businessperson
260
views
86
Katsuhiko Kawata
248
views
87
Fumiko Kono
Japanese chef
📚 4 citations
232
views
88
Takashi Tamura
Japanese Chef
229
views
89
otomatu Nishi
Japanese chef
228
views
90
Frédy Girardet
Swiss chef
📚 4 citations
225
views
91
Yoshiteru Nishi
Japanese chef
223
views
92
Tamotsu Nakajima
Japanese former owarai tarento
219
views
93
George Crum
popularized potato chips
📚 1 citation
216
views
94
André Lecomte
212
views
95
Kazuo Ishizuka
Japanese chef
210
views
96
Yoshihiro Narisawa
Japanese chef
206
views
97
Michel Bras
French chef
📚 6 citations
202
views
98
David Emge
American actor (1946–2024)
📚 12 citations
201
views