List of aikidoka

This is a list of famous and well-known aikido practitioners (aikidōka) sorted by area of primary residence.

Direct students of Morihei Ueshiba are marked with an asterisk*

The Ueshiba family

 * Morihei Ueshiba – founder of Aikido, often referred to as Ōsensei.
 * Kisshomaru Ueshiba – son of founder, second Dōshu*
 * Moriteru Ueshiba – son of Kisshomaru, third and current Dōshu*
 * Mitsuteru Ueshiba – son of Moriteru and presumed successor

Other Japanese aikidoka
• Seiseki Abe*

• Tsuneo Ando

• Sadateru Arikawa*

• Seishiro Endo*

• Michio Hikitsuchi*

• Minoru Hirai*

• Takuma Hisa*

• Kazuo Igarashi

• Masatomi Ikeda*

• Shizuo Imaizumi

• Kyoichi Inoue

• Noriaki (Yoichiro) Inoue*

• Hiroshi Isoyama*

• Hiroshi Kato*

• Hirokazu Kobayashi*

• Yasuhiro Konishi*

• Yasuo Kobayashi*

• Takako Kunigoshi*

• Koretoshi Maruyama*

• Shuji Maruyama*

• Minoru Mochizuki*

• Tetsuro Nariyama

• Shoji Nishio*

• Hideo Ohba

• Kisaburo Osawa*

• Hitohiro Saito

• Morihiro Saito*

• Fumiaki Shishida

• Kenji Shimizu*

• Gozo Shioda*

• Seiichi Sugano*

• Morito Suganuma*

• Yoshio Sugino*

• Kanshu Sunadomari*

• Hiroshi Tada*

• Isamu Takeshita*

• Bansen Tanaka*

• Kiyoyuki Terada

• Koichi Tohei*

• Kenji Tomiki*

• Seigo Yamaguchi*

• Terada Kiyoyuki

• Tsutomu Yukawa*

Non-Japanese in Japan

 * Jacques Payet

Australia
• Tony Smibert

• Joe Thambu

Europe
• Kenshiro Abbe*

• Tadashi Abe*

• Katsuaki Asai*

• Pierre Chassang

• Jan Hermansson

• Toshikazu Ichimura

• Masatomi Ikeda

• Loi Lee

• André Nocquet*

• Masamichi Noro*

• Alan Ruddock*

• Stefan Stenudd

• Toshiro Suga

• Nobuyoshi Tamura*

• Christian Tissier

• André Cognard

North America
• Kazuo Chiba*

• Frank Doran

• Terry Dobson*

• Robert Frager*

• Karl Geis

• William Gleason

• Patricia Hendricks

• Gaku Homma*

• Hiroshi Ikeda

• Mitsunari Kanai*

• Roderick Kobayashi

• Harvey Konigsberg

• Takashi Kushida

• George Leonard

• Donald N. Levine

• Thomas H. Makiyama

• Haruo Matsuoka

• Robert Mustard

• Robert Nadeau*

• Mutsuro Nakazono*

• Kenji Ota

• Amos Lee Parker

• Mitsugi Saotome*

• Steven Seagal

• John Stevens

• Richard Strozzi-Heckler

• Roy Y. Suenaka*

• Seiichi Sugano*

• Jon Takagi

• Akira Tohei*

• Fumio Toyoda

• Nick Walker

• Yoshimitsu Yamada*

South East Asia

 * Benjamin Galarpe

South America

 * Reishin Kawai

Literature

 * Pranin, Stanley A, ed. Aikido masters: prewar students of Morihei Ueshiba. Tokyo: Aiki News. 1993. ISBN 4-900586-14-5 This volume contains 14 in-depth interviews with direct participants in the early days of Aikido publisher


 * Stone, John and Meyer, Ron (eds.) Aikido in America North Atlantic Books 1995. ISBN 1883319277  Interviews limited to 13 aikidoists in the United States from 1990 to 1994; not meant to be comprehensive, Japanese teachers not covered. Editors were primarily interested in how Americans have responded to, changed, and expanded Aikido in the United States.

Budōka Aïkidoka