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List of Kyoto University people

Last updated October 08, 2025

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; 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

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

Literature

Politicians

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

Yasunori Hayashi - neuroscientist
Kinji Imanishi - ecologist, anthropologist
Shirō Ishii, microbiologist, army medical officer
Kiyosi Itô - mathematician
Takura Izumi - archaeologist
Motoo Kimura - biologist
Ushitaro Matsuura - dermatologist
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

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

↑ "おはら　舞". Archived from the original on 2009-03-09. Retrieved 2025-09-19.

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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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List of Kyoto University people

Contents

Nobel laureates

Fields Medalists

Literature

Politicians

Science

Other

References

See also