List of Kyoto University people

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
*Kenichi Fukui - winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1981
*Susumu Tonegawa - winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1987
*Ryoji Noyori - winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001

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 Taiwan
*Peng Ming-Min - Taiwan's DPP candidate for the 1996 Taiwan Presidential elections

Science

*Kiyoshi Oka - mathematician
*Teiji Takagi - mathematician
*Kinji Imanishi - ecologist, anthropologist
*Motoo Kimura - biologist
*Tetsuro Matsuzawa - primatologist

Other

*Akira Asada - philosopher
*Junya Kondo - founder of Hatena Co., Ltd.
*Kiyoshi Miki - philosopher
*Michio Morishima - economist
*Nagisa Oshima - film director
*Tetsuji Takechi - kabuki and film director and author
*Takeshi Umehara - philosopher
*Akira Yamada - philosopher
*Takahisa Zeze - film director

See also

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