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; 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
• Keiichiro Hirano

• Yasushi Inoue

• Motojirō Kajii

• Kan Kikuchi - author

• Akiko Kiso - classical scholar

• Sakyo Komatsu

• Tatsuji Miyoshi

• Shohei Ooka

• Akimitsu Takagi - crime fiction writer

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)

Science
• Yasunori Hayashi - neuroscientist

• Kinji Imanishi - ecologist, anthropologist

• Kiyosi Itô - mathematician

• Motoo Kimura - biologist

• 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 - sustainablity 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