Trending Philosophers in Japan — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed philosophers on Wikipedia, September 2026 (Japanese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Diana, Princess of Wales. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
1,070,637
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Diana, Princess of Wales
member of the British royal family and Princess of Wales (1961–1997)
62,727
views
views
2
Kohei Saito
Japanese philosopher, Marxist (1987-)
51,824
views
views
3
Miyamoto Musashi
Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer, artist, and rōnin (1584–1645)
40,711
views
views
4
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
26,554
views
views
5
Bruce Lee
Hong Kong–American martial artist and actor (1940–1973)
26,425
views
views
6
Kūkai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774–835)
25,592
views
views
7
John Lennon
British musician (1940–1980)
25,173
views
views
8
Mao Zedong
1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)
24,924
views
views
9
Ted Kaczynski
American mathematician and domestic terrorist (1942–2023)
24,387
views
views
10
Yoko Ono
Japanese artist and activist based in the United States (born 1933)
21,404
views
views
11
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
21,263
views
views
12
Yoshida Shōin
Japanese politician (1830-1859)
20,372
views
views
13
Murasaki Shikibu
Japanese novelist and poet (c.973–c.1014)
19,210
views
views
14
The Buddha
Indian philosopher and the founder of Buddhism (623 or 563 BCE – 543 or 483 BCE)
18,426
views
views
15
Fukuzawa Yukichi
Modern Enlightenment thinker, educator, philosopher, scholar, author, writer, journalist, translator, entrepreneur, and founder of Keio University in Japan's Meiji era (1835-1901)
17,861
views
views
16
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
17,275
views
views
17
Masahiro Yasuoka
Japanese scholar and educator
16,426
views
views
18
Zeami Motokiyo
Japanese aesthetician and playwright
15,940
views
views
19
Ninomiya Sontoku
Japanese philosopher
14,680
views
views
20
Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
14,039
views
views
21
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
13,451
views
views
22
Matsudaira Sadanobu
Japanese daimyō of the mid-Edo period (1759-1829)
13,392
views
views
23
Tatsuru Uchida
Japanese scholar of French literature, martial artist, translator, thinker, and essayist (1950– )
12,427
views
views
24
Ryūhō Ōkawa
Japanese religious leader who founded the world religion "Happy Science" (1956-2023)
12,308
views
views
25
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
12,192
views
views
26
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
11,685
views
views
27
Socrates
5th-century BCE Greek philosopher
11,677
views
views
28
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818–1883)
11,442
views
views
29
Sun Yat-sen
Chinese politician, physician, and revolutionary (1866–1925)
10,696
views
views
30
Saichō
Japanese Buddhist monk, founder of the Japanese Tendai school
10,366
views
views
31
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
9,645
views
views
32
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
9,600
views
views
33
Takeshi Kaikō
Japanese writer and activist (1930–1989)
9,511
views
views
34
Nichiren
Founder of Nichiren Buddhism in Japan
9,337
views
views
35
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
8,981
views
views
36
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
8,887
views
views
37
Alan Turing
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
8,744
views
views
38
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
8,697
views
views
39
Hideo Kobayashi
Japanese writer (1902–1983)
8,696
views
views
40
Kiyoshi Oka
Japanese mathematician who worked in the theory of several complex variables (1901-1978)
7,996
views
views
41
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
7,967
views
views
42
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
7,916
views
views
43
Aldous Huxley
English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)
7,853
views
views
44
Emmanuel Macron
President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra since 2017
7,839
views
views
45
Plato
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
7,783
views
views
46
Hiroki Azuma
Japanese critic and philosopher (1971– )
7,680
views
views
47
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
7,558
views
views
48
Saneatsu Mushanokōji
Japanese artist (1885-1976)
7,523
views
views
49
Martin Luther King Jr.
American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929–1968)
7,482
views
views
50
Motoori Norinaga
Japanese scholar and philosopher (1730–1801)
7,419
views
views
51
Confucius
5th-century BCE Chinese philosopher and politician
7,327
views
views
52
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
7,089
views
views
53
Hansō Sōshitsu
tea master from Japan (1923–2025)
7,079
views
views
54
Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher (1788-1860)
7,036
views
views
55
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
6,764
views
views
56
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
6,504
views
views
57
Michel Marcel Navratil
French philosopher and professor, Titanic survivor (1908–2001)
6,215
views
views
58
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
6,202
views
views
59
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
6,148
views
views
60
Susumu Nishibe
Japanese critic, conservative and economist
6,135
views
views
61
Ikeda Mitsumasa
daimyo (1609-1682)
6,052
views
views
62
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
6,009
views
views
63
Lü Buwei
Chinese merchant and politician of the Qin state (291–235 BC)
5,904
views
views
64
Michel Foucault
French philosopher (1926–1984)
5,901
views
views
65
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
5,871
views
views
66
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
5,858
views
views
67
Kojin Karatani
Japanese philosopher
5,834
views
views
68
Dōgen
Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher (1200-1253)
5,831
views
views
69
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
5,763
views
views
70
Ikki Kita
Japanese philosopher and right-wing activist
5,734
views
views
71
Count of St. Germain
18th-century European adventurer and intellectual
5,673
views
views
72
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
5,660
views
views
73
Tokutomi Sohō
Japanese writer (1863–1957)
5,609
views
views
74
Sima Qian
Chinese historian (c. 145 – c. 86 BCE)
5,542
views
views
75
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)
5,512
views
views
76
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
5,485
views
views
77
Kibi no Makibi
Japanese scholar (695-775)
5,448
views
views
78
Martin Luther
German priest and theologian (1483–1546)
5,331
views
views
79
Marcus Aurelius
16th Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 and Stoic philosopher
5,256
views
views
80
Leon Trotsky
Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)
5,210
views
views
81
Bodhidharma
Indian-Chinese philosopher and Buddhist Monk
5,164
views
views
82
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
5,153
views
views
83
Takaaki Yoshimoto
Japanese poet and Philosopher (1924–2012)
5,152
views
views
84
Hanawa Hokiichi
Japanese philosopher (1746-1821)
5,140
views
views
85
Osamu Tekina
Japanese philosopher and writer
5,139
views
views
86
Kitarō Nishida
Japanese philosopher (1870–1945)
5,134
views
views
87
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
5,132
views
views
88
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
5,129
views
views
89
Hermann Hesse
Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
5,091
views
views
90
Martin Heidegger
German philosopher (1889–1976)
5,055
views
views
91
Kuan Yew Lee
1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore (1923–2015)
5,054
views
views
92
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
4,914
views
views
93
Kanzō Uchimura
Japanese writer (1861–1930)
4,874
views
views
94
Yanagi Sōetsu
Japanese philosopher (1889-1961)
4,819
views
views
95
Søren Kierkegaard
Danish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic (1813–1855)
4,769
views
views
96
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
4,713
views
views
97
Hirata Atsutane
conventionally ranked as one of the four great men of kokugaku studies, and one of the most significant theologians of the Shintō religion
4,639
views
views
98
Arai Hakuseki
Japanese scholar and official (1657–1725)
4,575
views
views
99
Laozi
6th-century BC semi-legendary Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism
4,542
views
views
100
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
4,504
views
views