Trending Philosophers in Japan this year
The 100 most-viewed philosophers this year on Wikipedia (Japan). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Osamu Tekina.
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Ranked
83,658
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Osamu Tekina
Japanese philosopher and writer
7,876
views
views
2
Masahiro Yasuoka
Japanese scholar and educator
6,886
views
views
3
John Lennon
British musician (1940β1980)
1,974
views
views
4
KΕ«kai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774β835)
1,938
views
views
5
Miyamoto Musashi
Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer, artist, and rΕnin (1584β1645)
1,909
views
views
6
Hiroki Azuma
Japanese critic and philosopher (1971β )
1,723
views
views
7
Diana, Princess of Wales
member of the British royal family and Princess of Wales (1961β1997)
1,692
views
views
8
Yoshida ShΕin
Japanese politician (1830-1859)
1,586
views
views
9
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
1,468
views
views
10
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
1,402
views
views
11
The Buddha
Indian philosopher and the founder of Buddhism (623 or 563 BCE β 543 or 483 BCE)
1,382
views
views
12
Yoko Ono
Japanese artist and activist based in the United States (born 1933)
1,351
views
views
13
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
1,321
views
views
14
Donald Sutherland
Canadian actor (1935β2024)
1,307
views
views
15
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818β1883)
1,263
views
views
16
Mao Zedong
1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893β1976)
1,175
views
views
17
Kohei Saito
Japanese philosopher, Marxist (1987-)
1,158
views
views
18
Fukuzawa Yukichi
Modern Enlightenment thinker, educator, philosopher, scholar, author, writer, journalist, translator, entrepreneur, and founder of Keio Univ
1,070
views
views
19
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
1,046
views
views
20
Yangnyeong
Korean prince (1394-1462)
974
views
views
21
RyΕ«hΕ Εkawa
Japanese religious leader who founded the world religion "Happy Science" (1956-2023)
973
views
views
22
Confucius
5th-century BCE Chinese philosopher and politician
962
views
views
23
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian independence activist (1869β1948)
912
views
views
24
Murasaki Shikibu
Japanese novelist and poet (c.973βc.1014)
891
views
views
25
Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870β1924)
882
views
views
26
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
880
views
views
27
Sun Yat-sen
Chinese politician, physician, and revolutionary (1866β1925)
833
views
views
28
Socrates
5th-century BCE Greek philosopher
828
views
views
29
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821β1881)
818
views
views
30
Kiyoshi Oka
Japanese mathematician who worked in the theory of several complex variables (1901-1978)
812
views
views
31
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564β1642)
804
views
views
32
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889β1951)
731
views
views
33
Plato
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
717
views
views
34
Alan Turing
English computer scientist (1912β1954)
702
views
views
35
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
683
views
views
36
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
660
views
views
37
Kanji Nishio
Japanese germanist, philosopher and historian
659
views
views
38
Zeami Motokiyo
Japanese aesthetician and playwright
640
views
views
39
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
630
views
views
40
Matsudaira Sadanobu
Japanese daimyΕ of the mid-Edo period (1759-1829)
628
views
views
41
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642β1727)
616
views
views
42
Nichiren
Founder of Nichiren Buddhism in Japan
606
views
views
43
Martin Luther King Jr.
American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929β1968)
588
views
views
44
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809β1882)
584
views
views
45
George Eliot
English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819β1880)
552
views
views
46
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
552
views
views
47
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936β2025)
551
views
views
48
Ninomiya Sontoku
Japanese philosopher
547
views
views
49
Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher (1788-1860)
546
views
views
50
KitarΕ Nishida
Japanese philosopher (1870β1945)
539
views
views
51
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828β1910)
537
views
views
52
SaichΕ
Japanese Buddhist monk, founder of the Japanese Tendai school
535
views
views
53
Hideo Kobayashi
Japanese writer (1902β1983)
532
views
views
54
Himura Kenshin
fictional character and protagonist of the Rurouni Kenshin manga
525
views
views
55
Motoori Norinaga
Japanese scholar and philosopher (1730β1801)
522
views
views
56
Tatsuru Uchida
Japanese scholar of French literature, martial artist, translator, thinker, and essayist (1950β )
518
views
views
57
Alan Watts
British American author and lecturer (1915β1973)
515
views
views
58
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924β2024)
513
views
views
59
Francis Bacon
English philosopher and statesman (1561β1626)
510
views
views
60
Hannah Arendt
German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906β1975)
501
views
views
61
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820β1895)
493
views
views
62
Yoshihiro Nitta
Japanese philosopher
490
views
views
63
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905β1980)
485
views
views
64
Danny Glover
American actor (born 1946)
484
views
views
65
Susumu Nishibe
Japanese critic, conservative and economist
471
views
views
66
Hanawa Hokiichi
Japanese philosopher (1746-1821)
469
views
views
67
Count of St. Germain
18th-century European adventurer and intellectual
468
views
views
68
John Paul II
264th pope of the Catholic Church (1978β2005)
455
views
views
69
Saneatsu MushanokΕji
Japanese artist (1885-1976)
452
views
views
70
Martin Luther
German priest and theologian (1483β1546)
447
views
views
71
KanzΕ Uchimura
Japanese writer (1861β1930)
435
views
views
72
Kojin Karatani
Japanese philosopher
435
views
views
73
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913β1960)
433
views
views
74
Takeshi KaikΕ
Japanese writer and activist (1930β1989)
432
views
views
75
Takaaki Yoshimoto
Japanese poet and Philosopher (1924β2012)
429
views
views
76
OgyΕ« Sorai
Japanese philosopher (1666β1728)
429
views
views
77
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
428
views
views
78
Ikki Kita
Japanese philosopher and right-wing activist
427
views
views
79
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
427
views
views
80
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
424
views
views
81
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
424
views
views
82
LΓΌ Buwei
Chinese merchant and politician of the Qin state (291β235 BC)
417
views
views
83
Leon Trotsky
Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879β1940)
413
views
views
84
Yanagi SΕetsu
Japanese philosopher (1889-1961)
412
views
views
85
Akiko Ikeda
Japanese writer and philosopher (1960β2007)
411
views
views
86
Michel Foucault
French philosopher (1926β1984)
407
views
views
87
Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry
French writer and aviator (1900β1944)
406
views
views
88
Martin Heidegger
German philosopher (1889β1976)
404
views
views
89
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
394
views
views
90
Benedict XVI
265 th pope of the Catholic Church (2005β2013)
386
views
views
91
Lewis Carroll
British author and scholar (1832β1898)
383
views
views
92
Lee Kuan Yew
1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore (1923β2015)
374
views
views
93
Sima Qian
2nd-century BCE Chinese historian and writer
365
views
views
94
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743β1826)
360
views
views
95
Bodhidharma
Indian-Chinese philosopher and Buddhist Monk
349
views
views
96
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher and theologian (1770β1831)
349
views
views
97
Kibi no Makibi
Japanese scholar (695-775)
347
views
views
98
Arai Hakuseki
Japanese scholar and official (1657β1725)
340
views
views
99
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
336
views
views
100
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864β1920)
333
views
views
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