Trending Philosophers in Japan — the 7 days to 24 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed philosophers on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 24 October 2026 (Japanese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Emmanuel Macron. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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233,138
Total Views (the 7 days to 24 October 2026)
1
Emmanuel Macron
President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra since 2017
11,875
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
8,361
views
views
3
Kūkai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774–835)
7,125
views
views
4
Diana, Princess of Wales
member of the British royal family and Princess of Wales (1961–1997)
6,014
views
views
5
Yoshida Shōin
Japanese politician (1830-1859)
5,998
views
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
5,717
views
views
7
Mao Zedong
1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)
5,054
views
views
8
Kohei Saito
Japanese philosopher, Marxist (1987-)
4,500
views
views
9
Miyamoto Musashi
Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer, artist, and rōnin (1584–1645)
4,476
views
views
10
John Lennon
British musician (1940–1980)
4,394
views
views
11
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
4,041
views
views
12
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
3,981
views
views
13
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
3,913
views
views
14
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)
3,807
views
views
15
Ryūhō Ōkawa
Japanese religious leader who founded the world religion "Happy Science" (1956-2023)
3,663
views
views
16
Yoko Ono
Japanese artist and activist based in the United States (born 1933)
3,523
views
views
17
The Buddha
Indian philosopher and the founder of Buddhism (623 or 563 BCE – 543 or 483 BCE)
3,499
views
views
18
Bruce Lee
Hong Kong–American martial artist and actor (1940–1973)
3,492
views
views
19
Tokutomi Sohō
Japanese writer (1863–1957)
3,486
views
views
20
Murasaki Shikibu
Japanese novelist and poet (c.973–c.1014)
3,158
views
views
21
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
3,126
views
views
22
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
3,081
views
views
23
Socrates
5th-century BCE Greek philosopher
2,966
views
views
24
Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
2,957
views
views
25
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
2,723
views
views
26
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818–1883)
2,632
views
views
27
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
2,605
views
views
28
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
2,581
views
views
29
Masahiro Yasuoka
Japanese scholar and educator
2,381
views
views
30
Kanji Nishio
Japanese germanist, philosopher and historian
2,359
views
views
31
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
2,270
views
views
32
Ninomiya Sontoku
Japanese philosopher
2,257
views
views
33
Sun Yat-sen
Chinese politician, physician, and revolutionary (1866–1925)
2,204
views
views
34
Alan Turing
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
2,107
views
views
35
Matsudaira Sadanobu
Japanese daimyō of the mid-Edo period (1759-1829)
2,075
views
views
36
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
2,071
views
views
37
Leon Trotsky
Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)
2,069
views
views
38
Hiroki Azuma
Japanese critic and philosopher (1971– )
2,054
views
views
39
Tatsuru Uchida
Japanese scholar of French literature, martial artist, translator, thinker, and essayist (1950– )
2,052
views
views
40
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
1,986
views
views
41
Kojin Karatani
Japanese philosopher
1,973
views
views
42
Motoori Norinaga
Japanese scholar and philosopher (1730–1801)
1,926
views
views
43
Martin Luther King Jr.
American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929–1968)
1,923
views
views
44
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
1,897
views
views
45
Ted Kaczynski
American mathematician and domestic terrorist (1942–2023)
1,896
views
views
46
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
1,890
views
views
47
Saichō
Japanese Buddhist monk, founder of the Japanese Tendai school
1,867
views
views
48
John Paul II
pope, cardinal, bishop, priest, author
1,866
views
views
49
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
1,829
views
views
50
Nichiren
Founder of Nichiren Buddhism in Japan
1,818
views
views
51
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
1,789
views
views
52
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)
1,765
views
views
53
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
1,741
views
views
54
Ikki Kita
Japanese philosopher and right-wing activist
1,708
views
views
55
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
1,706
views
views
56
Hideo Kobayashi
Japanese writer (1902–1983)
1,702
views
views
57
Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher (1788-1860)
1,691
views
views
58
Michel Foucault
French philosopher (1926–1984)
1,676
views
views
59
Plato
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
1,670
views
views
60
Akira Asada
Japanese postmodern critic/curator/Dean:Graduate School/Kyoto University of Art and Design
1,667
views
views
61
Zeami Motokiyo
Japanese aesthetician and playwright
1,662
views
views
62
Confucius
5th-century BCE Chinese philosopher and politician
1,545
views
views
63
Kōichirō Kokubun
Japanese philosopher
1,538
views
views
64
Hannah Arendt
German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)
1,480
views
views
65
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
1,478
views
views
66
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
1,455
views
views
67
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
1,338
views
views
68
Saneatsu Mushanokōji
Japanese artist (1885-1976)
1,315
views
views
69
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
1,304
views
views
70
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
1,302
views
views
71
Takeshi Kaikō
Japanese writer and activist (1930–1989)
1,301
views
views
72
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
1,283
views
views
73
John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883–1946)
1,282
views
views
74
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
1,268
views
views
75
Martin Luther
German priest and theologian (1483–1546)
1,259
views
views
76
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
1,254
views
views
77
Takaaki Yoshimoto
Japanese poet and Philosopher (1924–2012)
1,252
views
views
78
Osamu Tekina
Japanese philosopher and writer
1,212
views
views
79
Marcus Aurelius
16th Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 and Stoic philosopher
1,209
views
views
80
Bodhidharma
Indian-Chinese philosopher and Buddhist Monk
1,197
views
views
81
Søren Kierkegaard
Danish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic (1813–1855)
1,164
views
views
82
Arai Hakuseki
Japanese scholar and official (1657–1725)
1,147
views
views
83
Hermann Hesse
Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
1,144
views
views
84
Kanzō Uchimura
Japanese writer (1861–1930)
1,137
views
views
85
Count of St. Germain
18th-century European adventurer and intellectual
1,113
views
views
86
Himura Kenshin
fictional character and protagonist of the Rurouni Kenshin manga
1,103
views
views
87
Laozi
6th-century BC semi-legendary Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism
1,088
views
views
88
Dōgen
Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher (1200-1253)
1,088
views
views
89
Sima Qian
Chinese historian (c. 145 – c. 86 BCE)
1,080
views
views
90
Crown Prince Sohyeon
Korean crown prince (1612-1645)
1,078
views
views
91
Martin Heidegger
German philosopher (1889–1976)
1,075
views
views
92
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
1,067
views
views
93
Susumu Nishibe
Japanese critic, conservative and economist
1,066
views
views
94
Kibi no Makibi
Japanese scholar (695-775)
1,060
views
views
95
Augustine of Hippo
Christian theologian, philosopher, and saint (354–430)
1,059
views
views
96
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)
1,039
views
views
97
Marcus Junius Brutus
assassin of Julius Caesar
1,024
views
views
98
Pythagoras
Greek philosopher and mathematician (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)
1,023
views
views
99
Kitarō Nishida
Japanese philosopher (1870–1945)
1,010
views
views
100
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
1,006
views
views