List of Kyoto University people

This is a list of people associated with Kyoto University in Japan. Several notable individuals have either studied or worked on the faculty of Kyoto University.

Nobel Laureates

• Hideki Yukawa - winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949; he became the first Japanese to win the Nobel prize
• Shinichiro Tomonaga - winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965
• Kenichi Fukui - winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1981
• Susumu Tonegawa - winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1987
• Ryōji Noyori - winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001
• Makoto Kobayashi - winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008
• Toshihide Masukawa - winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008

Fields Medalists

• Heisuke Hironaka - mathematician, Fields Medalists in 1970
• Shigefumi Mori - mathematician, Fields Medalists in 1990

Literature

• Kan Kikuchi - Japanese author
• Motojirō Kajii
• Tatsuji Miyoshi
• Shohei Ooka
• Yasushi Inoue
• Akimitsu Takagi - crime fiction writer
• Sakyo Komatsu
• Keiichiro Hirano

Politicians

• Frank Hsieh (aka Hsieh Chang-Ting) - Former mayor of Kaohsiung City and Premier of Taiwan/ 2008 Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate for the Republic of China (Taiwan)
• Osachi Hamaguchi - Prime Minister of Japan
• Kijuro Shidehara - Prime Minister of Japan
• Tetsu Katayama - Prime Minister of Japan
• Fumimaro Konoe - Prime Minister of Japan
• Hayato Ikeda - Prime Minister of Japan
• Lee Teng-hui - former President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
• Peng Ming-min - Taiwan's DPP candidate for the 1996 Taiwan Presidential elections
• Tadahiro Matsushita - five-time member of the House of Representatives of Japan

Science

• Kiyoshi Oka - mathematician
• Teiji Takagi - mathematician
• Kinji Imanishi - ecologist, anthropologist
• Motoo Kimura - biologist
• Shinya Yamanaka - physician
• Tetsuro Matsuzawa - primatologist
• Yasutomi Nishizuka - biochemist
• Yasunori Hayashi - neuroscientist
• Makoto Nagao - computer scientist, the 21st President of Kyoto University

Other

• Takeo Kanade - Roboticist and one of the world's foremost researchers in computer vision
• Akira Asada - philosopher
• Kazoh Kitamori
• Junya Kondo - founder of Hatena Co., Ltd.
• Kiyoshi Miki - philosopher
• Michio Morishima - economist
• Masakazu Nakai - philosopher, activist, librarian
• Ayappanpillai Madhavan Nair - revolutionary of Indian Independence
• Nagisa Oshima - film director
• Tetsuji Takechi - kabuki and film director and author
• Takeshi Umehara - philosopher
• Akira Yamada - philosopher
• Takahisa Zeze - film director
• Fengbo Zhang - A Leading Chinese Economist

See also

• Category:Kyoto University alumni
• Category:Kyoto University faculty