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Ōmura Masujirō

1824 - 1869

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Ōmura Masujirō (大村 益次郎) (May 30, 1824 – December 7, 1869) was a Japanese military leader and theorist in Bakumatsu period Japan. He was the "Father" of the Imperial Japanese Army, launching a modern military force closely patterned after the French system of the day. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ōmura Masujirō is the 13,211th most popular politician (down from 12,378th in 2019), the 1,117th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,027th in 2019) and the 306th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ōmura Masujirō ranks 13,211 out of 19,576Before him are Miro, Count of Barcelona, Pietro III Candiano, Trần Nhân Tông, Vichitravirya, Ali-Morad Khan Zand, and Tiridates I of Parthia. After him are Sayf al-Din Jaqmaq, Alberto Zorrilla, Sebastian Kurz, Ludwig I, Count of Württemberg, John Haglelgam, and Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Ōmura Masujirō ranks 58Before him are Juliusz Kossak, Alexander William Williamson, Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano, Alexey Bogolyubov, Wilhelm Hofmeister, and Víctor Balaguer i Cirera. After him are Ambrose Burnside, Count Karl Sigmund von Hohenwart, Theodor von Heuglin, Duke Georg August of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Hieronymous Theodor Richter, and Woldemar, Prince of Lippe. Among people deceased in 1869, Ōmura Masujirō ranks 42Before him are Juan Almonte, Adolphe Niel, Théophile Thoré-Bürger, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Gheorghe Asachi, and Pyotr Anjou. After him are Alexander Dreyschock, Johann Georg von Hahn, Vladimir Odoyevsky, Carlo Cattaneo, Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer, and Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ōmura Masujirō ranks 1,117 out of 6,245Before him are Ichirō Ozawa (1942), Chushiro Hayashi (1920), Hidetsugu Yagi (1886), Ayumi Hamasaki (1978), Shuntarō Tanikawa (1931), and Yūsaku Matsuda (1949). After him are Hisashi Owada (1932), Kiyotsugu Hirayama (1874), Hiroyuki Usui (1953), Norio Wakamoto (1945), Shigeru Kayano (1926), and Shigemitsu Sudo (1956).

Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Ōmura Masujirō ranks 306Before him are Sadako Ogata (1927), Konoe Sakihisa (1536), Uesugi Harunori (1751), Abe Masahiro (1819), Sekiryo Kaneda (1901), and Ichirō Ozawa (1942). After him are Shigeru Kayano (1926), Masayoshi Ito (1913), Saigō Jūdō (1843), Kōichi Kido (1889), Makino Nobuaki (1861), and Kenji Miyamoto (1908).