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The Top 100 Historical Persons in Japan

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The Top 100 Historical Persons (超大型歴史アカデミー史上初1億3000万人が選ぶニッポン人が好きな偉人ベスト100発表[1] in Japanese), aired on Nippon Television on May 7, 2006. The program featured the results of a survey that asked Japanese people to choose their favorite great person from history. The show featured several re-enactments of scenes from the lives of the people on the list.[2]

The survey asked Japanese people to name their most-liked historical figures, not the most influential. The selection was not restricted to Japanese people, and only about two thirds of the names are Japanese, mostly important Japanese historical figures, such as samurai, prime ministers, war leaders, authors, poets. and popular Meiji Restoration figures.[3]

The program was followed up with a women-only Top-100 list (ニッポン人が好きな１００人の美人) which aired September 23, 2006,[4] and History's 100 Most Influential People: Hero Edition which aired in March 2007.[5]

List

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The final list was as follows:[6]

  1. Japan Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) daimyō in the 16th century
  2. Japan Sakamoto Ryōma (1836–1867) The samurai who overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate in bakumatsu Japan.
  3. Japan Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537–1598) politician, samurai who is regarded as Japan's second "great unifier"
  4. Japan Matsushita Kōnosuke (1894–1989) industrialist, founder of Panasonic
  5. Japan Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616) The founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate
  6. Japan Noguchi Hideyo (1876–1928) bacteriologist who in 1911 discovered the agent of syphilis as the cause of progressive paralytic disease.
  7. KosovoIndia Mother Teresa (1910–1997) Roman Catholic nun and missionary
  8. United States Helen Keller (1880–1968) author and lecturer who was a deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree
  9. Japan Hijikata Toshizō (1835–1869) Fukucho of Shinsengumi, a great swordsman and a talented military leader who resisted the Meiji Restoration
  10. Japan Saigō Takamori (1828–1877) One of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration.
  11. United Kingdom Princess Diana (1961–1997) Member of British royal family, philanthropist and known for her charity work
  12. GermanyUnited States Albert Einstein (1879–1955) physicist, known for theory of relativity
  13. Japan Misora Hibari (1937–1989) singer and actress
  14. Japan Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835–1901) Japanese author, writer, teacher, translator, entrepreneur and journalist who founded Keio University
  15. Germany Netherlands Anne Frank (1929–1945) diarist, known for "Het Achterhuis"
  16. United Kingdom Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.
  17. Japan Yoshida Shigeru (1878–1967) Prime Minister of Japan
  18. United States Walt Disney (1901–1966) Entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer.
  19. Germany Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) German composer and pianist
  20. Japan Minamoto Yoshitsune (1159–1189) Military commander of the Minamoto clan of Japan in the late Heian and early Kamakura periods
  21. Brazil Ayrton Senna (1960–1994) One of the greatest formula drivers of all time
  22. Italy Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) polymath, universal genius
  23. Japan Tezuka Osamu (1928–1989) Manga artist who created Astro Boy, cartoonist, animator, film producer, medical doctor
  24. France Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) Emperor of French
  25. Japan Prince Shōtoku (574–622) Semi-legendary regent and a politician of the Asuka period in Japan who served under Empress Suiko.
  26. United Kingdom John Lennon (1940–1980) Member of The Beatles
  27. China Zhuge Liang (181–234) Imperial Chancellor and regent of the state of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period
  28. Japan Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) Japanese swordsman, philosopher, writer and rōnin.
  29. Japan Ozaki Yutaka (1965–1992) Musician
  30. United Kingdom Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993) British actress during Hollywood's Golden Age, dancer and humanitarian.
  31. India Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) activist, that led to Indian independence movement against British rule.
  32. Japan Soseki Natsume (1867–1916) novelist
  33. Japan Takasugi Shinsaku (1839–1867) Samurai from the Chōshū Domain of Japan who contributed significantly to the Meiji Restoration.
  34. Japan Murasaki Shikibu novelist and poet
  35. Austria Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Austria's greatest composer
  36. Japan Yamamoto Isoroku (1884–1943) Marshal Admiral of the Navy and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II
  37. Japan Miyazawa Kenji (1896–1933) author for children's literature
  38. United States John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th President of United States
  39. Japan Ninomiya Sontoku (1787–1856) Agricultural leader, philosopher, moralist and economist
  40. Japan Kondō Isami (1834–1868) Japanese swordsman and official of the late Edo period
  41. Japan Ōkubo Toshimichi (1830–1878) Main founders of Modern Japan.
  42. Japan Takeda Shingen (1521–1573) pre-eminent daimyō in feudal Japan
  43. Japan Himiko (d. 248) was a shaman queen of Yamataikoku in Wa (ancient Japan)
  44. Japan Inō Tadataka (1745–1818) surveyor and cartographer, completed the first map of Modern Japan.
  45. Japan Ishihara Yujiro (1934–1987) actor and singer
  46. Japan Sen no Rikyū (1522–1591) Prominent figure who had influence on chanoyu, the Japanese "Way of Tea", particularly the tradition of wabi-cha
  47. United Kingdom Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) actor of Silent Era
  48. Japan Sugihara Chiune (1900–1986) Government official who served as vice consul for the Japanese Empire in Lithuania
  49. Japan Date Masamune (1567–1636) Regional ruler of Japan's Azuchi–Momoyama period through early Edo period
  50. Japan Tanaka Giichi (1864–1929) Prime Minister of Japan
  51. Hong KongUnited States Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong actor and martial artist
  52. Japan Okita Sōji (1842–1868) The captain of the first unit of the Shinsengumi, a special police force in Kyoto during the late shogunate period
  53. Japan Matsuda Yusaku (1949–1989) One of Japan's most important actors
  54. Austria Marie Antoinette (1755–1793) The last Queen of France before the French Revolution
  55. Japan Ōishi Kuranosuke (1659–1703) (karō) of the Akō Domain in Harima Province
  56. Japan Ikariya Chosuke (1931–2004) comedian and film actor
  57. United States Wright Brothers
  58. Japan Katsu Kaishū (1823–1899) statesman and naval engineer during the late Tokugawa shogunate and early Meiji period
  59. United States Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) civil rights activist for black people
  60. Japan Yoshida Shōin (1830–1859) distinguished intellectual in the closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate
  61. Japan Kurosawa Akira (1910–1998) Japan's greatest director
  62. Japan Uesugi Kenshin (1530–1578) daimyō
  63. PolandFrance Marie Curie (1867–1934) physicist and chemist, First woman to win a Nobel Prize
  64. Japan Satō Eisaku (1901–1975) Prime Minister of Japan
  65. Japan Sanada Yukimura (1567–1615) Samurai warrior of the Sengoku period
  66. China Cao Cao (155–220) Chinese warlord and the penultimate Chancellor of the Eastern Han dynasty
  67. Japan Kato Daijiro (1976–2003) Grand Prix motorcycle road racer,
  68. Greece Egypt Cleopatra (69BC–30BC) the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt
  69. Japan Tokugawa Mitsukuni (1628–1701) Prominent daimyō who was known for his influence in the politics of the early Edo period
  70. United States Elvis Presley (1935–1977) King of Rock and Roll
  71. Japan Ogi Akira (1935–2005) professional Japanese baseball player, coach and manager
  72. Japan Tōgō Heihachirō (1848–1934) Gensui or admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and one of Japan's greatest naval heroes
  73. Italy Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer that discovered America
  74. Japan Itō Hirobumi (1841–1909) statesman and genrō
  75. Spain Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) 20th century best painter
  76. Italy Marco Polo (1254–1324) Italian explorer
  77. Germany Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German theologian, organist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician.
  78. Japan Yosano Akiko (1878–1942) author and social activist
  79. Switzerland Andy Hug (1964–2000) Swiss karateka and one of the best kickboxers
  80. Japan Tsuburaya Eiji (1901–1970) special effects director, co-creator of Godzilla
  81. France Joan of Arc (1412–1431) Roman Catholic saint
  82. Japan Honda Minako (1967–2005) pop star
  83. Japan Uemura Naomi (1941–1984) adventurer
  84. Japan Sugita Genpaku (1733–1817) scholar known for his translation of Kaitai Shinsho
  85. China Confucius (551BC–479BC) ancient philosopher
  86. France Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (1823–1915) French naturalist, entomologist
  87. Japan Natsume Masako (1957–1985) actress
  88. Portugal Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522
  89. Japan Honda Soichiro (1906–1991) engineer, founder of Honda
  90. United States Anne Sullivan (1866–1937) teacher, lifelong companion of Helen Keller
  91. Japan Shohei "Giant" Baba (1938–1999) professional wrestler, co-founder of All Japan Pro Wrestling
  92. United States Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of United States
  93. Japan Dazai Osamu (1909–1948) author
  94. Poland Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) Polish composer
  95. Japan Ikkyū (1391–1481) iconoclastic Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and poet.
  96. Japan Akechi Mitsuhide (1528–1582) samurai and general who lived during the Sengoku period of Feudal Japan
  97. United Kingdom Isaac Newton (1642–1727) physicist and theologian, known for implementing the law of gravity
  98. Japan Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694) most known poet during Edo period
  99. United Kingdom Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) writer, known for creating the character Sherlock Holmes

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "The Top 100 Historical Persons in Japanの意味 - 英和辞典 Weblio辞書". Ejje.weblio.jp. Archived from the original on 2016-12-23. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
  2. ^ "Japanese rank their favorite 100 historical figures - Japan Probe". Archived from the original on 15 April 2017. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  3. ^ "ニッポン人が好きな偉人ベスト１００・・・ オイラにひとこと言わせろよ！/ウェブリブログ". Sin-sei.at.webry.info. 2007-03-30. Archived from the original on 2011-11-10. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
  4. ^ "History's 100 Most Influential People: Hero Edition (Video) - Japan Probe". Archived from the original on 16 October 2009. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  5. ^ "History's 100 Most Influential People: Hero Edition (Video) - Japan Probe". Archived from the original on 16 October 2009. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  6. ^ ニッポン人が好きな偉人ベスト１００（美女編） Archived 2011-10-11 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)
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