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Top 100 Scientists in Japan

The most publicly visible scientists in Japan.

Most famous living

The most famous scientists in Japan right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

JapanScientists385 peopleHow fame is measured

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	Sōichi Noguchi	Japan	Scientists	73.0	3.8
#2	new	Eikō Harada	Japan	Scientists	67.9	18.8
#3	new	Ken Mogi	Japan	Scientists	66.1	0.0
#4	new	Yoshinori Ohsumi	Japan	Scientists	62.4	5.1
#5	new	Shuji Nakamura	Japan	Scientists	62.0	10.6
#6	new	Leo Esaki	Japan	Scientists	59.3	1.1
#7	new	Ryōji Noyori	Japan	Scientists	58.5	5.7
#8	new	Satoshi Ōmura	Japan	Scientists	58.3	13.0
#9	new	Ken Kutaragi	Japan	Scientists	58.3	19.8
#10	new	Hideki Shirakawa	Japan	Scientists	57.1	7.0
#11	new	Takaaki Kajita	Japan	Scientists	56.9	0.0
#12	new	Hiroshi Amano	Japan	Scientists	56.5	0.0
#13	new	Akira Yoshino	Japan	Scientists	56.3	3.3
#14	new	Yoshiro Nakamatsu	Japan	Scientists	56.2	10.9
#15	new	Makoto Kobayashi	Japan	Scientists	55.8	0.0
#16	new	Akira Suzuki	Japan	Scientists	55.7	0.0
#17	new	Koichi Tanaka	Japan	Scientists	55.5	0.0
#18	new	Mamoru Mohri	Japan	Scientists	55.3	4.1
#19	new	Susumu Tonegawa	Japan	Scientists	54.3	0.5
#20	new	Koichi Wakata	Japan	Scientists	54.3	2.4
#21	new	Naoko Yamazaki	Japan	Scientists	54.1	0.5
#22	new	Susumu Kitagawa	Japan	Scientists	53.6	0.0
#23	new	Masahiro Hara	Japan	Scientists	53.5	22.9
#24	new	Moriteru Ueshiba	Japan	Scientists	53.4	5.5
#25	new	Yasunori Nomura	Japan	Scientists	52.7	15.0
#26	new	NY Naoki Yamamoto	Japan	Scientists	52.4	28.7
#27	new	HH Hirotoshi Honda	Japan	Scientists	52.1	24.7
#28	new	Yutaka Matsuo	Japan	Scientists	51.8	18.5
#29	new	HO Haruko Obokata	Japan	Scientists	51.6	0.0
#30	new	Takuya Ōnishi	Japan	Scientists	51.5	0.0
#31	new	Takao Doi	Japan	Scientists	51.4	0.0
#32	new	ET Emi Tamaki	Japan	Scientists	50.9	15.6
#33	new	SI Shoichiro Irimajiri	Japan	Scientists	50.6	0.0
#34	new	Tsuneko Okazaki	Japan	Scientists	50.6	0.0
#35	new	TK Takao Kobayashi	Japan	Scientists	50.2	0.7
#36	new	KN Kazuhiko Nishi	Japan	Scientists	50.1	0.0
#37	new	Tomohiro Nishikado	Japan	Scientists	50.1	5.3
#38	new	Hiroshi Ishiguro	Japan	Scientists	50.0	1.4
#39	new	Masatoshi Shima	Japan	Scientists	49.9	0.0
#40	new	MK Masaru Kitano	Japan	Scientists	49.5	2.4
#41	new	Jun Murai	Japan	Scientists	49.5	5.0
#42	new	Sumio Iijima	Japan	Scientists	49.4	0.0
#43	new	GT Genyo Takeda	Japan	Scientists	49.2	1.1