Nobel laureates File:Yukawa.jpg|
Hideki Yukawa, recipient of the 1949
Nobel Prize in Physics File:YoichiroNambu.jpg|
Yoichiro Nambu, recipient of the 2008
Nobel Prize in Physics File:Akira Yoshino 20170920 (cropped 3).jpg|
Akira Yoshino, recipient of the 2019
Nobel Prize in Chemistry File:Shimon_Sakaguchi_cropped_2_Shimon_Sakaguchi_201711.jpg|
Shimon Sakaguchi, recipient of the 2025
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner
Sciences File:Hantaro Nagaoka.jpg|
Hantaro Nagaoka, 1st President of OU, pioneer of Japanese physics File:Hiroshi Ishiguro (Хироси Исигуро) (6795439075).jpg|
Hiroshi Ishiguro, creator of Geminoid robots File:Hidesaburo_Hanafusa_cropped_Hidesaburo_Hanafusa_20001212.jpg|
Hidesaburo Hanafusa, virologist, 1982
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research winner File:Osamu_Hayaishi.jpg|
Osamu Hayaishi, 1986
Wolf Prize in Medicine winner File:Shizuo_Akira_cropped_Shizuo_Akira_20141212.jpg|
Shizuo Akira, immunologists, 2011
Gairdner Award winner File:Crafoordpriset_2009-press_conference_07.jpg|
Tadamitsu Kishimoto, 14th President of OU, 2009
Crafoord Prize winner File:Crafoordpriset_2009-press_conference_20.jpg|
Toshio Hirano, 17th President of OU, 2009
Crafoord Prize winner File:薗頭健吉様.jpg|
Kenkichi Sonogashira, chemist who discovered the
Sonogashira coupling File:Election of the WHO Regional Director for the African Region.jpg|
Mohamed Yakub Janabi, Regional Director
WHO Regional Office for Africa File:Pratiwi Sudarmono-0.jpg|
Pratiwi Sudarmono, Indonesian microbiologist •
Shoichi Sakata, physicist, known for
Sakata model,
Nobel Prize in Physics nominee •
Takeo Matsubara, physicist at
Kyoto University, 1961
Nishina Memorial Prize winner •
Oda Minoru, astronomer and astrophysicist, emeritus Professor at the
University of Tokyo •
Yoshiaki Arata, pioneering researchers into
nuclear fusion •
Shigeo Satomura, Japanese physicist •
Akira Hasegawa, theoretical physicist and engineer •
Takashi Hibiki, professor emeritus of nuclear engineering at
Purdue University •
Yasuo Tanaka, Japanese astrophysicist and member of the
Japan Academy •
Sonia Contera, Spanish physicist at the
University of Oxford •
Satoshi Kawata, scientist in nanotechnology and photonics •
Satoshi Hiyamizu, professor of electrical engineering •
Tadao Kasami, information theorist,
IEEE Fellow, 1999 IEEE
Claude E. Shannon Award winner •
Tetsuo Asano, computer scientist, the president of the
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) •
Wahid Shams Kolahi, Iranian scientist and electrical engineer •
Kilnam Chon, South Korean computer scientist •
Nguyễn Ngọc Bình, Vietnamese computer scientist •
Li Siguang, Chinese geologist and politician •
Yoshio Okamoto, Japanese chemist, 2019
Japan Prize winner •
Yukihiro Ozaki, Japanese scientist at
Kwansei Gakuin University •
Tomoaki Kato, pioneer in multiple-organ transplantation •
Toshio Yanagida, Japanese biophysicist •
Yoshizumi Ishino, Japanese molecular biologist, known for his discovery of the DNA sequence of
CRISPR •
Kiyoshi Mizuuchi, Japanese biochemist •
Yusuke Nakamura, Japanese prominent geneticist and cancer researcher •
Kiyoshi Nagai, biologist at the
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology •
Chunshan Song, chemical engineer
Mathematics and Economic science File:Michio_Morishima.jpg|
Michio Morishima, co-founder of
International Economic Review File:Shizuo_Kakutani.jpg|
Shizuo Kakutani, mathematician known for
Kakutani fixed-point theorem File:Jun-iti_Nagata.jpg|
Jun-iti Nagata, topologist File:Ikeda_01.jpg|
Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda, Turkish mathematician of Japanese ancestry •
Hiroshi Haruki, mathematician, and author of Haruki's theorem and Haruki's Lemma •
Tadashi Nakayama, mathematician who made important contributions to
representation theory •
Katsumi Nomizu, Japanese-American mathematician known for his work in
differential geometry •
Hidehiko Yamabe, Japanese mathematician known for
Yamabe flow,
Yamabe invariant,
Yamabe problem •
Toru Kumon, Japanese mathematics educator, developer of
Kumon method •
Kengo Hirachi, Japanese mathematician, specializing in
CR geometry and mathematical analysis •
Yozo Matsushima, Japanese mathematician •
Masao Ogaki, Japanese economist at
Keio University •
Giorgio Brunello, Italian economist •
Kazuya Kamiya, Japanese economics, professor at
Kobe University •
Takero Doi, Japanese economist
Business and Arts File:Morita_Akio.jpg|
Akio Morita,
Sony co-founder,
Asian of the Century File:Masataka Taketsuru.jpg|
Masataka Taketsuru, father of Japan's
whisky industry File:Osamu Tezuka 1951 Scan10008-2.JPG|
Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist, cartoonist, and animator File:Shiba_Ryotaro.jpg|
Ryōtarō Shiba, one of the most important writers in contemporary Japan File:Norihiko Hibino.jpg|
Norihiko Hibino, Japanese video game composer and saxophonist •
Kunio Nakamura, businessman, the president of
Panasonic •
Takamitsu Azuma, architect. Professor of UOsaka (1985–1997), emeritus Professor •
Seishi Yokomizo, novelist and creator of the private detective
Kosuke Kindaichi •
Toshio Masuda, film director •
Tetsurō Itodani, professional
shogi player and
Ryūō champion •
Junzo Shono, Japanese novelist, 1954
Akutagawa Prize winner •
Chin Shunshin, Taiwanese-Japanese novelist, 1968
Naoki Prize winner •
Glenn Hook, British academic at the
University of Sheffield •
Tatsuhiko Seo, Japanese historian •
Shūdō Higashinakano, Japanese historian •
Yutaka Tsujinaka, professor of political science at the
University of Tsukuba •
Keiko McDonald, American orientalist •
Akiko Kiso, Japanese classicist •
Harue Tsutsumi, Japanese playwright •
Koushun Takami, journalist and author of
Battle Royale •
Taku Mayumura, Japanese novelist, science fiction writer, 1974 and 1996
Seiun Award winner •
Akira Hori, Japanese science fiction writer, 1980
Nihon SF Taisho Award and
Seiun Award winner •
Yasumi Kobayashi, Japanese author of horror, science fiction, and mystery, 2012 and 2017
Seiun Award winner •
Takahiro Kimura, Japanese animator, illustrator and character designer •
Ichirō Sakaki, Japanese light novel writer •
Teiichiro Fujita, Japanese economist and economic historian
Politics File:Japanese_Deputy_Foreign_Minister_Yabunaka.jpg|
Mitoji Yabunaka, current Japanese Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs File:Heizo_Takenaka_2008.jpg|
Heizo Takenaka,
Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications File:Shinji_Tarutoko_cropped_2_Shinji_Tarutoko_Minshu_IMG_5451_20130707.jpg|
Shinji Tarutoko, former member of the
House of Representatives •
Shuzen Tanigawa, Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, member of the
House of Councillors •
Satoshi Umemura, Japanese politician of the
Democratic Party of Japan, member of the
House of Councillors •
Mitsuo Mitani, Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, member of the
House of Representatives •
Tadashi Maeda, member of the
House of Representatives •
Wataru Ito, Japanese politician of the
New Komeito Party •
Keisuke Kihara, former mayor of
Sakai, Osaka in Japan •
Ko Ko Oo, former
Minister of Science and Technology of
Burma •
Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed,
SAARC Secretary-General == Notes and references ==