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The Top 100 Historical Persons in Japan

, 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.

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.

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, and History's 100 Most Influential People: Hero Edition which aired in March 2007.

List

The final list was as follows:

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

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