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Tsuda Umeko

1864 - 1929

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Tsuda Umeko (津田 梅子; born Tsuda Ume (津田 梅); December 31, 1864 – August 16, 1929) was a Japanese educator who founded Tsuda University. She was the daughter of Tsuda Sen, an agricultural scientist, and at the age of 7, she became Japan's first female exchange student, traveling to the U.S. on the same ship as the Iwakura Mission. Originally named Tsuda Ume, with ume referring to the Japanese plum, she went by the name Ume Tsuda while studying in the United States before changing her name to Umeko in 1902. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tsuda Umeko is the 10,650th most popular politician (down from 10,469th in 2019), the 882nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 851st in 2019) and the 286th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Tsuda Umeko ranks 10,650 out of 19,576Before her are Hayır Bey, Pap of Armenia, Arthur Griffith, Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, Erik Gustaf Boström, and Kamehameha V. After her are Constantine II, King of Armenia, Lev Mekhlis, Shepenupet I, Pietro Lando, Manuel Amador Guerrero, and Agathokleia.

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Among people born in 1864, Tsuda Umeko ranks 92Before her are Eemil Nestor Setälä, Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Ferdinand Zecca, José Gregorio Hernández, Ricarda Huch, and Michael Mayr. After her are Adolf Wölfli, Marguerite Durand, Robert Lansing, Karl Neukirch, Guy Ropartz, and Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe. Among people deceased in 1929, Tsuda Umeko ranks 73Before her are Mahidol Adulyadej, António José de Almeida, Léon Delacroix, Millicent Fawcett, Vasil Radoslavov, and Nasreddine Dinet. After her are Sergei Nilus, Hans Meyer, Charles Fox Parham, Nurkhon Yuldashkhojayeva, P. J. Kennedy, and Ernest Monis.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tsuda Umeko ranks 882 out of 6,245Before her are Higaonna Kanryō (1853), Sakuma Shōzan (1811), Kengo Kuma (1954), Takiji Kobayashi (1903), Takaji Mori (1943), and Akira Endo (1933). After her are Sō Yoshitoshi (1568), Mie Hama (1943), Taisen Deshimaru (1914), Kiyoshi Shiga (1871), Takizawa Bakin (1767), and Akihiro Miwa (1935).

Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Tsuda Umeko ranks 286Before her are Kujō Yoritsugu (1239), Ōtomo Sōrin (1530), Matsudaira Katamori (1836), Ashikaga Yoshikatsu (1434), Matsudaira Sadanobu (1759), and Sakuma Shōzan (1811). After her are Takizawa Bakin (1767), Ashikaga Yoshikazu (1407), Wakatsuki Reijirō (1866), Kabayama Sukenori (1837), Asakura Yoshikage (1533), and Osachi Hamaguchi (1870).