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
- Shinya Yamanaka - winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2012
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
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