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Revision as of 01:35, 5 October 2007
This is a list of famous and well-known judo practitioners (judoka) sorted by area of primary residence.
The founder
- Masahiko Kimura, defeated founder of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and only lost 4 times in his entire career
- Yasuhiro Yamashita, most successful competitive male judoka of all time, never lost in his entire career
- Ryoko Tani, most successful competitive female judoka of all time
- Mitsuyo Maeda, pioneer of Judo in Brazil, teacher of the Gracie family, fundamental to the creation of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
- Keiko Fukuda, highest ranking female in the world, lives in US
- Kyuzo Mifune, one of the four pillars of Kodokan judo
- Kenshiro Abbe
- Gunji Koizumi, introduced Judo to England
- Tadahiro Nomura
- Hidehiko Yoshida 1992 Olympic gold medalist and mixed martial arts fighter
- Toshihiko Koga, "A New Wind."
- Naoya Ogawa, Professional wrestler and MMA fighter, introduced some Judo techniques to Professional wrestling, especially the STO take down which is based off of the O-soto-gari.
- Kazuhiro Nakamura, a popular Mixed Martial Artist fighting out of the famous Yoshida Dojo.
- Aurélio Miguel, Olympic gold medalist
- Flávio Canto, Olympic bronze medalist
- Henrique Guimarães, Olympic bronze medalist
- João Derly, World Judo Championship gold medalist
- Carlos Honorato, Olympic silver medalist
- Mário Sabino, World Judo Championship bronze medalist
- Rogério Sampaio, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Jim Bregman, first American to win a medal in Olympic judo
- Allen Coage, 1976 Olympic bronze medalist, and professional wrestler Bad News Brown
- George Harris, member of the first US Olympic judo team
- Jason Morris, 1992 Olympic silver medalist, 1993 Worlds bronze medalist, 2008 Olympic coach
- Karo Parisyan
- Jimmy Pedro
- Philip S. Porter
- Teddy Roosevelt
- Mike Swain
- Ron Tripp
- Yosh Uchida, 1964 Olympic coach
- Clyde Worthen
- Anthony Clarke, World blind judo champion and gold medalist in the paralympics.
- Neil Adams, world championship winner (gold) 1981
- Brian Jacks, first British world championship medal winner (bronze)
- Craig Fallon, world championship winner (gold) 2005 in Cairo
- Charlie Palmer 10th Dan
- Doug Rogers
- Pierre Trudeau 2nd Dan, Former Canadian Prime Minister
- David Douillet, Two time Olympic gold medalist
- Detlef Ultsch, first German world champion
- Yael Arad, 1992 Olympic silver medalist, first Israeli to win a medal at the Olympic games
- Oren Smadja, 1992 Olympic bronze medalist
- Ariel Zeevi, 2004 Olympic bronze medalist
- Inchul Cho, 1997, 2001 (MVP) World Champion 81kg, 1996 Olympic bronze medalist, 2000 Olympic silver medalist
- Anton Geesink, 10th Dan
- Wim Ruska
- Jan Snijders
- Pawel Nastula 1996 Olympic gold medalist
- Hüseyin Özkan 2000 Olympic gold medalist
- Hülya Şenyurt 1992 Olympics women's bronze medalist