List of University of Tokyo people

Notable alumni

Nobel prize laureates

• Yasunari Kawabata, Literature, 1968
• Leo Esaki, Physics, 1973
• Eisaku Satō, Peace, 1974
• Kenzaburō Ōe, Literature, 1994
• Masatoshi Koshiba, Physics, 2002
• Yoichiro Nambu, Physics, 2008
• Ei-ichi Negishi, Chemistry, 2010
• Satoshi Omura, Physiology or Medicine, 2015
• Takaaki Kajita, Physics, 2015

Prime Ministers

• Hara Takashi (1918–1921)
• Katō Takaaki (1924–1926)
• Wakatsuki Reijirō (1926-1927, 1931-1931)
• Osachi Hamaguchi (1929–1931)
• Kōki Hirota (1936–1937)
• Fumimaro Konoe (1937–1939, 1940–1941)
• Hiranuma Kiichirō (1939-1939)
• Kijūrō Shidehara (1945–1946)
• Shigeru Yoshida (吉田茂) (1946–1947, 1948–1954)
• Tetsu Katayama (1947–1948)
• Hitoshi Ashida (1948-1948)
• Ichirō Hatoyama (1954–1956)
• Nobusuke Kishi (岸信介) (1957–1960)
• Eisaku Satō (佐藤栄作), Nobel laureate (1964–1972)
• Takeo Fukuda (福田赳夫) (1976–1978)
• Yasuhiro Nakasone (中曽根康弘) (1982–1987)
• Kiichi Miyazawa (宮沢喜一) (1991–1993)
• Yukio Hatoyama (鳩山由紀夫) (2009–2010)

Mathematicians

• Maxi Aoi
• Tadatoshi Akiba
• Kiyoshi Itō
• Kenkichi Iwasawa
• Kunihiko Kodaira, Fields Medal winner
• Tsuyoshi Mori
• Mikio Sato
• Goro Shimura
• Teiji Takagi
• Yutaka Taniyama
• Kentaro Yano

Physicists

• Akito Arima
• Leo Esaki, Nobel laureate
• Chūshirō Hayashi
• Fushimi Kazuo
• Jun Kondo
• Masatoshi Koshiba, Nobel laureate
• Ryogo Kubo
• Hantaro Nagaoka
• Ukichiro Nakaya
• Yoichiro Nambu, Nobel laureate
• Yoshio Nishina
• Seiji Ogawa, discoverer of fMRI
• Shohé Tanaka
• Toyoichi Tanaka
• Morikazu Toda
• Yoji Totsuka
• Dr. Vijay Raj Singh

Chemists

• Kikunae Ikeda
• Hiroshi Nishihara
• Umetaro Suzuki
• Jokichi Takamine

Physicians

• Kitasato Shibasaburō
• Katsusaburo Yamagiwa

Architects

• Arata Isozaki, Royal Gold Medal laureate
• Toyo Ito, Pritzker Prize laureate, Royal Gold Medal laureate
• Kisho Kurokawa, architect
• Fumihiko Maki, Pritzker Prize laureate
• Kenzo Tange, Pritzker Prize laureate

Authors

• Kōbō Abe
• Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
• Osamu Dazai
• Shinichi Hoshi
• Otohiko Kaga
• Yasunari Kawabata, Nobel laureate
• Yukio Mishima
• Dhan Gopal Mukerji
• Atsushi Nakajima
• Wafu Nishijima, Zen Buddhist priest
• Kenzaburō Ōe, Nobel laureate
• Mori Ōgai
• Hiro Sachiya
• Tatsuhiko Shibusawa
• Naoya Shiga
• Masaoka Shiki
• Natsume Sōseki
• Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Entertainers

• Toshiya Fujita, film director
• Bai Guang, one of the seven great singing stars of China
• Ai Hazuki, film director
• Teruyuki Kagawa, actor
• Tokiko Kato, singer
• Rei Kikukawa, actress
• Tamayo Marukawa, TV announcer
• Towa Oshima, manga artist
• Kenji Ozawa, musician
• Koichi Sugiyama, music composer
• Isao Takahata, anime director
• Mayuko Takata, actress
• Kiyohiko Ushihara, film director
• Yoji Yamada, film director
• Yoshishige Yoshida, film director
• Anton Wicky, educator

Foreigners

• Ong Iok-tek, linguist
• Peng Ming-min, DPP Senior Advisor to President Chen Shui-Bian; former president of WUFI
• John Nathan, translator, first American admitted as a regular student
• Nam June Paik, video artist
• Charles Dickinson West, mechanical engineer
• Fang Chih, Statesman, 1923

Others

• Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima
• Naohiro Amaya, head of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI)
• Inokuchi Ariya, founder of Ebara Corporation
• Toshihiko Fukui, Governor of the Bank of Japan
• Minoru Harada, Buddhist leader, 6th President of Soka Gakkai
• Kanō Jigorō, creator of judo
• Takashi Kawamura, 9th President of Hitachi
• Furuichi Kōi
• Akihiko Kumashiro, politician, three-time member of the House of Representatives of Japan
• Susumu Kuno, linguist, Professor Emeritus at Harvard University
• Kiyozawa Manshi, Buddhist thinker
• Shinrokuro Miyoshi (三好晋六郎)
• Hiroo Mori, real estate developer
• Tsunetaro Moriyama, Hall of Fame baseball pitcher
• Toshirō Mutō, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan
• Makoto Nakajima, former Commissioner of the Japan Patent Office
• Yoshiro Nakamatsu, inventor
• Hiroaki Nakanishi (MS 1979), President of Hitachi
• Kitaro Nishida, philosopher
• Namihei Odaira, entrepreneur and philanthropist, founder of Hitachi
• Masaharu Ōhashi, Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan
• Hisashi Owada, International Court of Justice Judge
• Masako Owada, Crown Princess of Japan
• Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Buddhist scholar
• Masayuki Tamiya (1981), Senior Executive Director of Tamiya Corporation
• Takejirō Tokonami, government minister and governor
• Eiji Toyoda, industrialist
• Kazuhide Uekusa, economist
• Hidesaburō Ueno, agricultural scientist and owner of world's most loyal dog, Hachiko
• Yoichi Wada, president of Square Enix
• Tetsuro Watsuji, philosopher
• Hakuo Yanagisawa, politician, Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
• Takashi Yuasa, lawyer, economist

See also

• University of Tokyo