List of Kyoto University people

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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

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* Hideki Yukawa \- winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949; 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
* Isamu Akasaki \- winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014
* Tasuku Honjo \- winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2018
* Akira Yoshino \- winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019

## Fields Medalists

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* Heisuke Hironaka \- mathematician, Fields Medalist in 1970
* Shigefumi Mori \- mathematician, Fields Medalist in 1990

## Literature

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* Keiichiro Hirano
* Yasushi Inoue
* Motojirō Kajii
* Kan Kikuchi \- author
* Akiko Kiso \- classical scholar
* Sakyo Komatsu
* Tatsuji Miyoshi
* Shohei Ooka
* Akimitsu Takagi \- crime fiction writer

## Politicians

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* Osachi Hamaguchi \- Prime Minister of Japan
* 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)
* Hayato Ikeda \- Prime Minister of Japan
* Tetsu Katayama \- Prime Minister of Japan
* Fumimaro Konoe \- Prime Minister of Japan
* Tadahiro Matsushita \- five-time member of the House of Representatives of Japan
* Peng Ming-min \- Taiwan's DPP candidate for the 1996 Taiwan presidential elections
* Kijuro Shidehara \- Prime Minister of Japan
* Lee Teng-hui \- former President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
* Mai Ohara – Japanese Representative from Kyoto 5th electoral district (DPJ, 2009–12)[1]

## Science

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* Yasunori Hayashi \- neuroscientist
* Kinji Imanishi \- ecologist, anthropologist
* Shirō Ishii, microbiologist, army medical officer
* Kiyosi Itô \- mathematician
* Motoo Kimura \- biologist
* Tetsuro Matsuzawa \- primatologist
* Makoto Nagao \- computer scientist; 21st president of Kyoto University
* Yasutomi Nishizuka \- biochemist
* Kiyoshi Oka \- mathematician
* Ri Sung-gi \- North Korean chemist; inventor of Vinalon
* Teiji Takagi \- mathematician
* Shinya Yamanaka \- physician
* Takao Umemoto\- psychology
* Atsuhiro Osuka \- chemist
* Kento Sasano \- sustainability scientist, social entrepreneur
* Radenka Maric \- materials science and engineering, 17th president of the University of Connecticut (2022– )

## Other

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* Diwakar Acharya \- Nepali scholar of South Asia
* Umeda Mikio \- agricultural roboticist and Asian agricultural development's strategist
* Akira Asada \- philosopher
* Takeo Kanade \- roboticist and one of the world's foremost researchers in computer vision
* Kazoh Kitamori
* Junya Kondo \- founder of Hatena Co., Ltd.
* Kiyoshi Miki \- philosopher
* Michio Morishima \- economist
* Ayappanpillai Madhavan Nair \- revolutionary of Indian Independence
* Masakazu Nakai \- philosopher, activist, librarian
* Nagisa Oshima \- film director
* Ito Sekisui V \- potter
* Tetsuji Takechi \- kabuki and film director and author
* Takeshi Umehara \- philosopher
* Akira Yamada \- philosopher
* Takahisa Zeze \- film director
* Fengbo Zhang \- Chinese economist

## References

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1. ^ http://oharamai.jp/profile.html

## See also

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* List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Kyoto University
* Category:Kyoto University alumni
* Category:Academic staff of Kyoto University

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Kyoto University

Colleges|

* Engineering
* Informatics
* Law
* Letters
* Medicine
* Science

Facilities|

* Kosobe Conservatory
* Primate Research Institute
* Research Centre for the Cultural Sciences
* Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences
* Seto Marine Biological Laboratory
* Yoshida dormitory
* Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics

Media|

* African Study Monographs

People|

* Kitaro Nishida
* Keiji Nishitani
* Hajime Tanabe

Related|

* Kyoto School
* Takigawa incident

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