List of Tokyo Institute of Technology people

This is a list of notable graduates and faculty members of the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan.

Politics

 * Naoto Kan – 94th Prime Minister of Japan (2010-2011)
 * Yukio Hatoyama – former Assistant Professor; 93rd Prime Minister of Japan (2009–2010)
 * Tadamichi Yamamoto - UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan

Sciences

 * Yoshinori Ohsumi – Nobel laureate (Medicine, 2016)
 * Hideki Shirakawa (BSc 1961, PhD 1966) – Nobel laureate (Chemistry, 2000)
 * Pailin Chuchottaworn – former CEO and president of PTT, founder and chairman of Kamnoetvidya Science Academy
 * Toshikazu Sunada – mathematician who contributed to various fields in geometry, including spectral geometry, Reinhardt domain, Ihara zeta function, and periodic graph)

Engineering

 * Toshitada Doi – robot Aibo pioneer, co-inventor of compact disc
 * Nobutaro Hara – model railway builder whose collection is displayed at the Hara Model Railway Museum
 * Shōji Hayashi – architect, chairman of Japan Institute of Architects
 * Shigeo Hirose – pioneer of robotics technology
 * Junichi Iijima – Professor of the Department of Industrial Management and Engineering
 * Satoru Iwata – former game developer at HAL Laboratories; former CEO of Nintendo
 * Heitaro Nakajima – digital audio pioneer
 * Hiroshi Takahashi – architect
 * Jiro Tanaka – aircraft and automotive engineer

Architecture

 * Kiyoshi Seike
 * Kazuo Shinohara
 * Kazunari Sakamoto
 * Yoshiharu Tsukamoto

Business

 * Shoji Hamada – potter, Living National Treasure of Japan
 * Kanjiro Kawai – potter, refused Living National Treasure designation
 * Akitoshi Kawazu – game producer, creator of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
 * Kenichi Ohmae – business and corporate strategist
 * Takaaki Yoshimoto – poet, literary critic, philosopher