Trending Historians in Japan this year
The 99 most-viewed historians this year on Wikipedia (Japan). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Michael Jackson.
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86,182
Total Views (this year)
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1
Michael Jackson
American singer, songwriter, record producer, and dancer (1958β2009)
6,205
views
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2
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Japanese actress
3,221
views
views
3
Katsu KaishΕ«
Japanese noble, statesman and naval engineer (1823β1899)
2,720
views
views
4
Princess Akiko of Mikasa
Japanese princess; elder daughter of Prince and Princess Tomohito of Mikasa
2,357
views
views
5
T. E. Lawrence
British archaeologist, army officer and diplomat (1888β1935)
1,917
views
views
6
Scipio Africanus
Roman general and politician (236/235β183 BC)
1,792
views
views
7
Marilyn Monroe
American actress and model (1926β1962)
1,737
views
views
8
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Austrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician (born 1947)
1,699
views
views
9
Kanji Ishiwara
general in the Imperial Japanese Army (1889-1949)
1,691
views
views
10
Puyi
Last Emperor of Qing dynasty and Manchukuo (1906β1967)
1,561
views
views
11
Michael Jordan
American basketball player and businessman (born 1963)
1,485
views
views
12
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915β2016)
1,416
views
views
13
Victoria
Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901 (1819β1901)
1,345
views
views
14
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
1,321
views
views
15
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
1,263
views
views
16
Angelina Jolie
American actress, humanitarian and filmmaker (born 1975)
1,240
views
views
17
Cary Grant
British-American actor (1904β1986)
1,145
views
views
18
Mike Tyson
American boxer and media personality (born 1966)
1,084
views
views
19
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
1,046
views
views
20
Barack Obama
president of the United States from 2009 to 2017 (born 1961)
1,021
views
views
21
Julius Caesar
Roman general and dictator
984
views
views
22
Yangnyeong
Korean prince (1394-1462)
974
views
views
23
Muhammad Ali
American boxer (1942β2016)
970
views
views
24
Winston Churchill
British statesman, soldier and writer (1874β1965)
939
views
views
25
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890β1976)
913
views
views
26
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian independence activist (1869β1948)
912
views
views
27
Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
897
views
views
28
Murasaki Shikibu
Japanese novelist and poet (c.973βc.1014)
891
views
views
29
Jennifer Lopez
American singer and actress (born 1969)
881
views
views
30
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942β2018)
863
views
views
31
Anna Kendrick
American actress (born 1985)
856
views
views
32
Kim Il-sung
Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994
852
views
views
33
George W. Bush
President of the United States from 2001 to 2009
844
views
views
34
Hiroo Onoda
Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer (1922-2014)
843
views
views
35
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821β1881)
818
views
views
36
Charlie Chaplin
English comic actor and filmmaker (1889β1977)
811
views
views
37
Michael J. Fox
Canadian-American actor, comedian, author, film producer, and activist
807
views
views
38
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897β1945)
796
views
views
39
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943β2001)
786
views
views
40
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer (1840β1893)
774
views
views
41
ShΕ«saku EndΕ
author from Japan (1923β1996)
767
views
views
42
Yao Ming
Chinese basketball player
746
views
views
43
Sei ShΕnagon
Japanese author and court lady
738
views
views
44
Martin Scorsese
American filmmaker (born 1942)
726
views
views
45
Doppo Kunikida
Japanese writer and journalist (1871β1908)
704
views
views
46
Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859β1930)
690
views
views
47
Ronald Reagan
president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor (1911-2004)
689
views
views
48
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925β2013)
684
views
views
49
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
660
views
views
50
Kanji Nishio
Japanese germanist, philosopher and historian
659
views
views
51
Anne Frank
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929β1945)
653
views
views
52
Demi Moore
American actress and producer (born 1962)
648
views
views
53
Harry S. Truman
president of the United States from 1945 to 1953; politician (1884β1972)
637
views
views
54
George H. W. Bush
president of the United States from 1989 to 1993 (1924-2018)
618
views
views
55
Kashiwa Εyama
Japanese military personnel, historian and archaeologist (1889-1969)
599
views
views
56
Richard Nixon
president of the United States from 1969 to 1974 (1913β1994)
584
views
views
57
Miles Davis
American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926β1991)
580
views
views
58
Elizabeth Taylor
British-American actress (1932β2011)
566
views
views
59
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
552
views
views
60
Charles de Gaulle
French general and statesman (1890β1970)
552
views
views
61
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936β2025)
551
views
views
62
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883β1924)
537
views
views
63
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828β1910)
537
views
views
64
Alex Ferguson
Scottish association football manager and player
536
views
views
65
Richard Wagner
German composer (1813β1883)
523
views
views
66
Hideko Takamine
Japanese actress (1924-2010)
523
views
views
67
Nelson Mandela
President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918β2013)
517
views
views
68
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924β2024)
513
views
views
69
Francis Bacon
English philosopher and statesman (1561β1626)
510
views
views
70
Phil Collins
English drummer, singer, and songwriter (born 1951)
505
views
views
71
ShΕ«mei Εkawa
Japanese nationalist intellectual (1886β1957)
505
views
views
72
Hannah Arendt
German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906β1975)
501
views
views
73
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882β1941)
499
views
views
74
KafΕ« Nagai
Japanese writer (1879β1959)
497
views
views
75
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820β1895)
493
views
views
76
Michael Caine
English actor (born 1933)
487
views
views
77
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905β1980)
485
views
views
78
Hanawa Hokiichi
Japanese philosopher (1746-1821)
469
views
views
79
Hulk Hogan
American professional wrestler, actor and television personality (1953β2025)
468
views
views
80
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903β1950)
467
views
views
81
Joe Jackson
American music manager, father of the Jackson family (1928β2018)
466
views
views
82
Naoki Inose
Japanese writer and politician
465
views
views
83
Katharine Hepburn
American actress (1907β2003)
464
views
views
84
Andy Warhol
American artist, film director, and producer (1928β1987)
463
views
views
85
Hans Christian Andersen
Danish writer and poet (1805β1875)
461
views
views
86
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949β2022)
460
views
views
87
Sayaka Oki
Japanese French science historian, Ally
457
views
views
88
John Paul II
264th pope of the Catholic Church (1978β2005)
455
views
views
89
Martin Luther
German priest and theologian (1483β1546)
447
views
views
90
Εta GyΕ«ichi
441
views
views
91
Andrei Tarkovsky
Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director (1932β1986)
430
views
views
92
Chris Kyle
American war veteran and author (1974-2013)
429
views
views
93
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
428
views
views
94
Sachi Parker
American actress (born 1956)
425
views
views
95
Leon Trotsky
Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879β1940)
413
views
views
96
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920β1992)
412
views
views
97
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 (1858β1919)
407
views
views
98
Michel Foucault
French philosopher (1926β1984)
407
views
views
99
Judi Dench
English actress (born 1934)
400
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