Ueda (surname)

Ueda (上田 or 植田), romanized as Uyeda[1] in an old version of Hepburn romanization, is the 60th most common Japanese surname.[2] Notable people with the surname include:

  • Ai Ueda (上田藍, born 1983), professional triathlete
  • Ueda Akinari (1734–1809), Japanese author, scholar and waka poet
  • Akira Ueda (上田 晃, born 1970), video game designer
  • Ueda Arisawa (上田有沢, 1850-1921), Imperial Japanese Navy admiral
  • Bin Ueda (上田 敏, 1874–1916), writer and translator
  • Fumito Ueda (上田 文人, born 1970), video game designer
  • Hiroki Ueda, Japanese biologist
  • Kana Ueda (植田 佳奈, born 1980), Japanese singer and voice actress
  • Katsuji Ueda (上田 勝次, 1945–2017), Japanese kickboxer, martial artist and professional wrestler
  • Ken-ichi Ueda (植田 憲一), Japanese laser scientist
  • Kenkichi Ueda (植田謙吉, 1875–1962), general in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War
  • Makoto Ueda (architecture critic) (植田実, born 1935), editor and architecture critic
  • Makoto Ueda (poetry critic) (上田真, born 1931), professor, author of numerous books about Japanese poetry
  • Masaharu Ueda (born 1938), Japanese cinematographer
  • Miyuki Ueda (上田みゆき, 1944), Japanese actress and voice actress
  • Rinko Ueda, Japanese manga artist
  • Seiji Ueda (上田清二, born 1952), astronomer, asteroid hunter
  • Shizuteru Ueda (上田 閑照, born 1926), Japanese philosopher specializing in philosophy of religion
  • Shōji Ueda (植田 正治, 1913–2000), photographer
  • Ueda Sōko (上田 宗箇, 1563-1650), Japanese samurai
  • Takuma Ueda (上田 拓馬, born 1989), Japanese badminton player
  • Tatsuya Ueda (上田 竜也, born 1983), member of Japanese boy band Kat-tun
  • Yōji Ueda (上田 燿司, born 1974), Japanese voice actor
  • Yūji Ueda (上田 祐司, born 1967), Japanese voice actor

See also

  • Ueta, a Japanese surname written the same way

References

  1. ↑ McCarty, Louis Philippe, comp. "Japan." The Annual Statistician and Economist. Vol. 13. N.p.: n.p., 1889. 390. Web. https://books.google.com/books?id=XbNXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA390#v=onepage&q&f=false
  2. ↑ "Japan's top 100 most common family names". The Japan Times Online. 2009-10-11. ISSN 0447-5763. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
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