Trending Historians in Japan — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed historians on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (Japanese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Doppo Kunikida. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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Ranked
1,226,350
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Doppo Kunikida
Japanese writer and journalist (1871–1908)
57,465
views
views
2
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Japanese actress
47,444
views
views
3
Puyi
Last Emperor of Qing dynasty and Manchukuo (1906–1967)
31,109
views
views
4
Chung Su-il
South Korean historian (1934–2025)
28,959
views
views
5
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Austrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician (born 1947)
28,288
views
views
6
Kanji Ishiwara
general in the Imperial Japanese Army (1889-1949)
26,916
views
views
7
Katsu Kaishū
Japanese noble, statesman and naval engineer (1823–1899)
23,309
views
views
8
George W. Bush
43rd President of the United States (2001–2009)
22,339
views
views
9
Hiroo Onoda
Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer (1922-2014)
20,835
views
views
10
Murasaki Shikibu
Japanese novelist and poet (c.973–c.1014)
20,101
views
views
11
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915–2016)
19,951
views
views
12
Shūsaku Endō
author from Japan (1923–1996)
19,597
views
views
13
Angelina Jolie
American actress (born 1975)
19,486
views
views
14
Kim Il-sung
Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994
19,279
views
views
15
Michael Jordan
American basketball player and businessman (born 1963)
18,980
views
views
16
Michael J. Fox
Canadian-American actor, comedian, author, film producer, and activist
18,786
views
views
17
Marilyn Monroe
American actress and model (1926–1962)
18,624
views
views
18
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
18,321
views
views
19
Anne Frank
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929–1945)
17,016
views
views
20
Victoria
Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901 (1819-1901)
16,770
views
views
21
Barack Obama
44th President of the United States (2009–2017)
15,164
views
views
22
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
14,880
views
views
23
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
14,772
views
views
24
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943–2001)
13,582
views
views
25
Julius Caesar
Roman general and dictator
13,477
views
views
26
Charlie Chaplin
English actor and filmmaker (1889–1977)
13,197
views
views
27
Joe Jackson
American music manager, father of the Jackson family (1928–2018)
13,092
views
views
28
Luis Suárez
Uruguayan association football player
13,058
views
views
29
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
13,010
views
views
30
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 (1858–1919)
12,929
views
views
31
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818–1883)
12,705
views
views
32
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
12,597
views
views
33
Winston Churchill
British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)
12,414
views
views
34
Michael Caine
English actor (born 1933)
12,178
views
views
35
George H. W. Bush
41st President of the United States (1989–1993)
11,775
views
views
36
Dolly Parton
American singer-songwriter (1946–2026)
11,683
views
views
37
Peter Falk
American actor (1927–2011)
11,606
views
views
38
Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
11,593
views
views
39
Yūichi Goza
Japanese historian (1980-)
11,434
views
views
40
Katharine Hepburn
American actress (1907–2003)
11,316
views
views
41
Martin Scorsese
American filmmaker (born 1942)
11,157
views
views
42
Mike Tyson
American boxer and media personality (born 1966)
10,968
views
views
43
Muhammad Ali
American boxer (1942–2016)
10,907
views
views
44
Michifumi Isoda
Japanese historian
10,836
views
views
45
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
10,821
views
views
46
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
10,540
views
views
47
Ronald Reagan
president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor (1911–2004)
10,485
views
views
48
Sei Shōnagon
Japanese author and court lady
10,328
views
views
49
Charles de Gaulle
French general and statesman (1890–1970)
10,236
views
views
50
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer (1840–1893)
9,752
views
views
51
Harry S. Truman
president of the United States from 1945 to 1953; politician (1884–1972)
9,636
views
views
52
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
9,555
views
views
53
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
9,357
views
views
54
Jennifer Lopez
American singer and actress (born 1969)
9,283
views
views
55
Nelson Mandela
President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)
9,218
views
views
56
Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
9,105
views
views
57
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
8,504
views
views
58
Miles Davis
American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926–1991)
8,321
views
views
59
Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer
British peer and author, brother of Diana, Princess of Wales (born 1964)
8,305
views
views
60
Demi Moore
American actress and producer (born 1962)
8,269
views
views
61
Shūmei Ōkawa
Japanese nationalist intellectual (1886–1957)
8,233
views
views
62
Kafū Nagai
Japanese writer (1879−1959)
8,181
views
views
63
Richard Nixon
president of the United States from 1969 to 1974 (1913–1994)
8,092
views
views
64
Malcolm X
American Black rights activist (1925–1965)
8,035
views
views
65
Sakuji Yoshimura
Japanese Egyptologist
8,028
views
views
66
Naoki Inose
Japanese writer and politician
7,884
views
views
67
Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
7,856
views
views
68
Richard Wagner
German composer (1813–1883)
7,725
views
views
69
Gloria Swanson
American actress (1899–1983)
7,718
views
views
70
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
7,641
views
views
71
Hideko Takamine
Japanese actress (1924-2010)
7,590
views
views
72
Bill Clinton
42nd President of the United States (1993–2001)
7,544
views
views
73
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
7,531
views
views
74
Katherine Jackson
matriarch of the Jackson musical family
7,335
views
views
75
Archibald Gracie IV
writer, historian, real estate investor (1858–1912)
7,312
views
views
76
Robert Schumann
German composer, pianist and critic (1810–1856)
7,169
views
views
77
Philipp Franz von Siebold
German biologist and traveller (1796-1866)
7,147
views
views
78
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Canadian writer (1874–1942)
7,098
views
views
79
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
7,097
views
views
80
Robert Campbell
American academic in Japan
7,066
views
views
81
Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
7,004
views
views
82
Hayashi Taisuke
Japanese academic
6,999
views
views
83
Hans Christian Andersen
Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)
6,992
views
views
84
Phil Collins
English drummer, singer, and songwriter (born 1951)
6,865
views
views
85
Shigehiko Hasumi
Japanese film critic, literary critic, and French literature scholar (1936-)
6,864
views
views
86
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
6,715
views
views
87
Shin Kyuk-ho
South Korean businessman (1921–2020)
6,676
views
views
88
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
6,633
views
views
89
Elizabeth Taylor
British-American actress (1932–2011)
6,585
views
views
90
Heita Kawakatsu
Japanese politician
6,451
views
views
91
Michel Foucault
French philosopher (1926–1984)
6,308
views
views
92
Heinrich Schliemann
German businessman and archaeologist (1822–1890)
6,288
views
views
93
Andy Warhol
American artist, film director, and producer (1928–1987)
6,217
views
views
94
Karl Dönitz
German admiral and former president of Nazi Germany in 1945 (born 1891-1980)
6,197
views
views
95
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
6,008
views
views
96
Tokutomi Sohō
Japanese writer (1863–1957)
5,976
views
views
97
Amelia Earhart
American aviation pioneer and author (1897–1939)
5,968
views
views
98
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
5,913
views
views
99
Sima Qian
Chinese historian (c. 145 – c. 86 BCE)
5,907
views
views
100
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
5,882
views
views