# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuzuru-hiraga
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:06:31.031Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yuzuru-hiraga"
name: "Yuzuru Hiraga"
slug: "yuzuru-hiraga"
description: "Vice Admiral Baron Yuzuru Hiraga  was a career naval officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy, Doctor of Engineering and head of the engineering school of Tokyo Imperial University and a leading Japanese naval architect in the 1910s and 1920s, responsible for designing a number of famous warships, many of which would later see action during World War II. He participated in establishing the Chiba Institute of Technology from 1941."
tagline: "Japanese admiral (1878-1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hiraga_Yuzuru.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1878-03-08"
deathDate: "1943-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.38
  momentum:             25.68362480127186
  historical:           10.77959866666667
  currentAttention:     4.960000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B9%B3%E8%B4%BA%E8%AE%A9"
    title: "平贺让"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juzuru_Hiraga"
    title: "Juzuru Hiraga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiraga_Yuzuru"
    title: "Hiraga Yuzuru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzuru_Hiraga"
    title: "Yuzuru Hiraga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzuru_Hiraga"
    title: "Yuzuru Hiraga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzuru_Hiraga"
    title: "Yuzuru Hiraga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzuru_Hiraga"
    title: "Yuzuru Hiraga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B9%B3%E8%B3%80%E8%AD%B2"
    title: "平賀譲"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%9E%88%EB%9D%BC%EA%B0%80_%EC%9C%A0%EC%A6%88%EB%A3%A8"
    title: "히라가 유즈루"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzuru_Hiraga"
    title: "Yuzuru Hiraga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0%2C_%D0%AE%D0%B4%D0%B7%D1%83%D1%80%D1%83"
    title: "Хирага, Юдзуру"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AE%D0%B4%D0%B7%D1%83%D1%80%D1%83_%D0%A5%D1%96%D1%80%D0%B0%D2%91%D0%B0"
    title: "Юдзуру Хіраґа"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2472870"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump