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Yoshioka Yayoi

1871 - 1959

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Yoshioka Yayoi (吉岡 彌生; April 29, 1871 – May 22, 1959) was a Japanese physician, educator, and women's rights activist. She founded the Tokyo Women's Medical University in 1900, as the first medical school for women in Japan. She was also known as Washiyama Yayoi. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yoshioka Yayoi is the 656th most popular physician (up from 661st in 2019), the 1,656th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,567th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Japanese Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Yoshioka Yayoi ranks 656 out of 726. Before her are Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet, William C. Gorgas, Walter Reed, Edward Angle, Harry Klinefelter, and Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson. After her are Joseph Schröter, Denton Cooley, Peter Lesgaft, Almroth Wright, Ellen S. Baker, and Maria Vorontsova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Yoshioka Yayoi ranks 162. Before her are William Diller Matthew, Fran Saleški Finžgar, Manuel Gondra, Aloys Van de Vyvere, Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, and Eugen Burg. After her are Hermanus Brockmann, Ivan Gubkin, Winston Churchill, Clarence Hudson White, Jean-Baptiste Mimiague, and Arthur Surridge Hunt. Among people deceased in 1959, Yoshioka Yayoi ranks 196. Before her are George Padmore, Russell Simpson, Osvaldo Sáez, Blind Willie McTell, Otto Bartning, and Apsley Cherry-Garrard. After her are Harold Hardwick, Arvi Pohjanpää, Jerónimo Méndez, John August Anderson, Arvid Spångberg, and Nils Granfelt.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoshioka Yayoi ranks 1,656 out of 6,245. Before her are Seiji Ueda (1952), Yuji Horii (1954), LiSA (1987), Nikka Costa (1972), Kazumasa Shimizu (1976), and Ryota Takahashi (1986). After her are Minato Yoshida (1992), Tomimaru Okuni (1931), Yoshiyuki Matsuyama (1966), Futaba Kioka (1965), Takao Kobayashi (1961), and Tsuyoshi Nakao (1983).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Japan

Among physicians born in Japan, Yoshioka Yayoi ranks 14. Before her are Kiyoshi Shiga (1871), Shinobu Ishihara (1879), Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), Kyusaku Ogino (1882), Sunao Tawara (1873), and Kei Okami (1859).

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