Trending Philosophers in Japan — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed philosophers on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (Japanese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Diana, Princess of Wales. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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1,151,838
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Diana, Princess of Wales
member of the British royal family and Princess of Wales (1961–1997)
64,419
views
views
2
Kohei Saito
Japanese philosopher, Marxist (1987-)
52,982
views
views
3
Miyamoto Musashi
Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer, artist, and rōnin (1584–1645)
42,620
views
views
4
Bruce Lee
Hong Kong–American martial artist and actor (1940–1973)
28,318
views
views
5
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
28,022
views
views
6
Kūkai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774–835)
27,530
views
views
7
John Lennon
British musician (1940–1980)
27,147
views
views
8
Mao Zedong
1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)
26,099
views
views
9
Ted Kaczynski
American mathematician and domestic terrorist (1942–2023)
24,647
views
views
10
Masahiro Yasuoka
Japanese scholar and educator
23,312
views
views
11
Yoko Ono
Japanese artist and activist based in the United States (born 1933)
22,755
views
views
12
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
22,665
views
views
13
Yoshida Shōin
Japanese politician (1830-1859)
21,958
views
views
14
Murasaki Shikibu
Japanese novelist and poet (c.973–c.1014)
20,101
views
views
15
The Buddha
Indian philosopher and the founder of Buddhism (623 or 563 BCE – 543 or 483 BCE)
19,808
views
views
16
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)
18,931
views
views
17
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
18,321
views
views
18
Zeami Motokiyo
Japanese aesthetician and playwright
16,580
views
views
19
Ninomiya Sontoku
Japanese philosopher
15,227
views
views
20
Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
14,921
views
views
21
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
14,772
views
views
22
Matsudaira Sadanobu
Japanese daimyō of the mid-Edo period (1759-1829)
14,020
views
views
23
Ryūhō Ōkawa
Japanese religious leader who founded the world religion "Happy Science" (1956-2023)
13,281
views
views
24
Osamu Tekina
Japanese philosopher and writer
13,015
views
views
25
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
13,010
views
views
26
Tatsuru Uchida
Japanese scholar of French literature, martial artist, translator, thinker, and essayist (1950– )
12,945
views
views
27
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818–1883)
12,705
views
views
28
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
12,597
views
views
29
Socrates
5th-century BCE Greek philosopher
12,505
views
views
30
Sun Yat-sen
Chinese politician, physician, and revolutionary (1866–1925)
11,529
views
views
31
Saichō
Japanese Buddhist monk, founder of the Japanese Tendai school
10,901
views
views
32
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
10,525
views
views
33
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
10,404
views
views
34
Takeshi Kaikō
Japanese writer and activist (1930–1989)
9,943
views
views
35
Nichiren
Founder of Nichiren Buddhism in Japan
9,943
views
views
36
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
9,597
views
views
37
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
9,541
views
views
38
Alan Turing
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
9,446
views
views
39
Hiroki Azuma
Japanese critic and philosopher (1971– )
9,403
views
views
40
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
9,357
views
views
41
Hideo Kobayashi
Japanese writer (1902–1983)
9,228
views
views
42
Kiyoshi Oka
Japanese mathematician who worked in the theory of several complex variables (1901-1978)
8,808
views
views
43
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
8,599
views
views
44
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
8,504
views
views
45
Plato
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
8,500
views
views
46
Emmanuel Macron
President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra since 2017
8,458
views
views
47
Confucius
5th-century BCE Chinese philosopher and politician
8,289
views
views
48
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
8,188
views
views
49
Martin Luther King Jr.
American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929–1968)
8,070
views
views
50
Aldous Huxley
English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)
8,005
views
views
51
Saneatsu Mushanokōji
Japanese artist (1885-1976)
7,975
views
views
52
Motoori Norinaga
Japanese scholar and philosopher (1730–1801)
7,941
views
views
53
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
7,641
views
views
54
Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher (1788-1860)
7,582
views
views
55
Hansō Sōshitsu
tea master from Japan (1923–2025)
7,383
views
views
56
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
7,197
views
views
57
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
6,931
views
views
58
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
6,715
views
views
59
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
6,633
views
views
60
Susumu Nishibe
Japanese critic, conservative and economist
6,606
views
views
61
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
6,593
views
views
62
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
6,494
views
views
63
Ikeda Mitsumasa
daimyo (1609-1682)
6,345
views
views
64
Lü Buwei
Chinese merchant and politician of the Qin state (291–235 BC)
6,321
views
views
65
Michel Foucault
French philosopher (1926–1984)
6,308
views
views
66
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
6,282
views
views
67
Kojin Karatani
Japanese philosopher
6,269
views
views
68
Michel Marcel Navratil
French philosopher and professor, Titanic survivor (1908–2001)
6,266
views
views
69
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
6,173
views
views
70
Ikki Kita
Japanese philosopher and right-wing activist
6,161
views
views
71
Dōgen
Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher (1200-1253)
6,152
views
views
72
Count of St. Germain
18th-century European adventurer and intellectual
6,141
views
views
73
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
6,066
views
views
74
Tokutomi Sohō
Japanese writer (1863–1957)
5,976
views
views
75
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
5,913
views
views
76
Sima Qian
Chinese historian (c. 145 – c. 86 BCE)
5,907
views
views
77
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)
5,848
views
views
78
Kibi no Makibi
Japanese scholar (695-775)
5,795
views
views
79
Martin Luther
German priest and theologian (1483–1546)
5,778
views
views
80
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
5,680
views
views
81
Kitarō Nishida
Japanese philosopher (1870–1945)
5,673
views
views
82
Leon Trotsky
Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)
5,623
views
views
83
Hanawa Hokiichi
Japanese philosopher (1746-1821)
5,609
views
views
84
Marcus Aurelius
16th Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 and Stoic philosopher
5,583
views
views
85
Takaaki Yoshimoto
Japanese poet and Philosopher (1924–2012)
5,581
views
views
86
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
5,526
views
views
87
Bodhidharma
Indian-Chinese philosopher and Buddhist Monk
5,513
views
views
88
Martin Heidegger
German philosopher (1889–1976)
5,459
views
views
89
Kuan Yew Lee
1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore (1923–2015)
5,428
views
views
90
Hermann Hesse
Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
5,411
views
views
91
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
5,338
views
views
92
Kanzō Uchimura
Japanese writer (1861–1930)
5,309
views
views
93
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
5,280
views
views
94
Yanagi Sōetsu
Japanese philosopher (1889-1961)
5,231
views
views
95
Søren Kierkegaard
Danish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic (1813–1855)
5,060
views
views
96
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
5,020
views
views
97
Hannah Arendt
German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)
4,962
views
views
98
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
4,924
views
views
99
Arai Hakuseki
Japanese scholar and official (1657–1725)
4,915
views
views
100
Laozi
6th-century BC semi-legendary Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism
4,870
views
views