Trending Explorers in Japan this year
The 100 most-viewed explorers this year on Wikipedia (Japan). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Hideaki Takizawa.
100
Ranked
27,200
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Hideaki Takizawa
Japanese actor-singer
2,252
views
views
2
ShintarΕ Ishihara
Japanese politician and author, Governor of Tokyo (1932β2022)
2,202
views
views
3
T. E. Lawrence
British archaeologist, army officer and diplomat (1888β1935)
1,917
views
views
4
Hiroshi Fujioka
actor
1,295
views
views
5
Francis Xavier
Spanish Catholic saint and missionary (1506β1552)
961
views
views
6
Naomi Uemura
Japanese mountain climber
868
views
views
7
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451β1506)
855
views
views
8
Masabumi Hosono
RMS Titanic survivor (1870β1939)
701
views
views
9
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker (born 1954)
671
views
views
10
William Adams
English navigator who travelled to Japan
598
views
views
11
Michio Hoshino
Japanese photographer (1952β1996)
588
views
views
12
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809β1882)
584
views
views
13
Yuri Gagarin
Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space (1934β1968)
499
views
views
14
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 (1858β1919)
407
views
views
15
Philipp Franz von Siebold
German biologist and traveller (1796-1866)
399
views
views
16
Xu Fu
Chinese alchemist and explorer in the Qin Dynasty
387
views
views
17
Marco Polo
Venetian explorer and merchant who travelled through Asia (1254β1324)
382
views
views
18
Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese explorer in the service of Spain
344
views
views
19
George Mallory
English mountaineer (1886-1924)
316
views
views
20
Hasekura Tsunenaga
Japanese samurai and diplomat
306
views
views
21
Mamiya RinzΕ
Japanese explorer
306
views
views
22
Junko Tabei
Japanese mountain climber (1939-2016)
304
views
views
23
Sigurd
fictional character in Germanic and Norse heroic legend, dragon slayer
297
views
views
24
Vasco da Gama
Portuguese explorer (c. 1460s β 1524)
274
views
views
25
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917β2008)
263
views
views
26
Xuanzang
7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar (602β664)
258
views
views
27
Wario
fictional video game character from the Mario franchise
245
views
views
28
Arthur Rimbaud
French poet (1854-1891)
239
views
views
29
Francis Drake
English sailor and privateer (c. 1540 β 1596)
238
views
views
30
Zheng He
Chinese mariner, explorer, and diplomat
236
views
views
31
Isabella Bird
British traveler, writer, photographer and naturalist (1831β1904)
232
views
views
32
Yamada Nagamasa
Japanese explorer (1590-1630)
226
views
views
33
Amerigo Vespucci
Florentine explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer
215
views
views
34
William Somerset Maugham
English playwright and author (1874β1965)
200
views
views
35
Nobu Shirase
Japanese explorer of the Antarctic (1861-1946)
193
views
views
36
Robert Falcon Scott
Royal Navy officer and explorer (1868β1912)
191
views
views
37
Gertrude Bell
British traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy (1868β1926)
189
views
views
38
Roald Amundsen
Norwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole (1872β1928)
189
views
views
39
Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn
Dutch sailor
181
views
views
40
Ulysses S. Grant
president of the United States from 1869 to 1877
178
views
views
41
Stockton Rush
American businessman (1962β2023)
171
views
views
42
James Cook
British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728β1779)
168
views
views
43
HernΓ‘n CortΓ©s
Spanish conquistador
164
views
views
44
Francisco Pizarro
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire
163
views
views
45
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Finnish military leader and statesman (1867β1951)
161
views
views
46
Ekai Kawaguchi
Japanese Buddhist monk (1866β1945)
159
views
views
47
Hideyuki Takano
Japanese nonfiction writer
155
views
views
48
Walton Goggins
American actor (born 1971)
148
views
views
49
John Hurt
British actor (1940β2017)
146
views
views
50
YΕ«suke Kakuhata
138
views
views
51
Naoki Ishikawa
Japanese photographer
137
views
views
52
Peter Cushing
British actor (1913β1994)
136
views
views
53
Edmund Hillary
New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist (1919β2008)
133
views
views
54
Thorfinn Karlsefni
Icelandic explorer
127
views
views
55
Katsuji Yoshida
127
views
views
56
John Franklin
British naval officer and explorer (1786β1847)
123
views
views
57
Cecil John Rhodes
British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa (1853-1902)
123
views
views
58
Michael Rockefeller
American anthropologist and art collector (1938β1961)
118
views
views
59
Tsuneo Hasegawa
Japanese mountaineer
114
views
views
60
Captain Nemo
fictional character created by Jules Verne
112
views
views
61
Ernest Shackleton
Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer (1874β1922)
109
views
views
62
Leif Erikson
norse explorer (c. 970 β c. 1020)
105
views
views
63
Bear Grylls
English adventurer, writer and television presenter (born 1974)
103
views
views
64
Norio Suzuki
Japanese explorer and adventurer notable for finding Hiroo Onoda
103
views
views
65
Engelbert Kaempfer
German botanist (1651β1716)
102
views
views
66
Lara Croft
Tomb Raider protagonist character
97
views
views
67
Ibn Battuta
14th century Muslim Maghrebi scholar and explorer
97
views
views
68
Andrew Comyn Irvine
English mountaineer (1902β1924)
97
views
views
69
Samus Aran
video game character
96
views
views
70
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
95
views
views
71
The Doctor
fictional character from the television series Doctor Who
89
views
views
72
Bartolomeu Dias
Portuguese explorer
88
views
views
73
Reinhold Messner
Italian mountaineer, adventurer and explorer (born 1944)
88
views
views
74
Mister Fantastic
fictional character in Marvel Comics
87
views
views
75
Steve Irwin
Australian zookeeper, conservationist and TV personality (1962-2006)
85
views
views
76
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880β1930)
82
views
views
77
Stepan Makarov
Russian admiral
81
views
views
78
Sora
main protagonist of the Kingdom Hearts video game series
80
views
views
79
Christopher Eccleston
English actor (born 1964)
78
views
views
80
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
77
views
views
81
Davy Crockett
American frontiersman and politician (1786β1836)
77
views
views
82
Calamity Jane
American scout and frontierswoman
74
views
views
83
Yoda BenzΕ
Japanese explorer (1853-1925)
72
views
views
84
James T. Kirk
fictional character from Star Trek
71
views
views
85
Alexander Kolchak
Russian admiral and military leader of the White movement (1874-1920)
70
views
views
86
Mogami Tokunai
daimyo (1755-1836)
70
views
views
87
Walter Raleigh
English statesman, soldier and writer (1552β1618)
70
views
views
88
Ranald MacDonald
American English teacher (1824-1894)
68
views
views
89
Adam Laxman
Finland-Swedish military officer and one of the first subjects of Imperial Russia to set foot in Japan
68
views
views
90
David Sharp
British mountain climber (1972β2006)
67
views
views
91
Tenzing Norgay
Nepalese Indian Sherpa mountaineer (1914-1986)
67
views
views
92
Wild Bill Hickok
American folk hero and lawman (1837β1876)
67
views
views
93
Zhang Qian
imperial envoy to the world outside of China in the 2nd century BC
67
views
views
94
Erik the Red
explorer and founder of the first viking settlement in Greenland
66
views
views
95
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Thorkell the Tall
Jomsviking
66
views
views
96
Yoshiharu Sekino
Japanese explorer
65
views
views
97
Hisayoshi Takeda
Japanese botanist (1883β1972)
65
views
views
98
Matteo Ricci
Italian Catholic missionary (1552β1610)
61
views
views
99
Ed Stafford
English explorer (born 1975)
61
views
views
100
Fukushima Yasumasa
Japanese general (1852-1919)
60
views
views
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