Ueda (上田 or 植田), romanized as Uyeda in an old version of
Hepburn romanization, is the 60th most common Japanese surname.
Notable people with the surname include:
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Ai Ueda
Ai Ueda ( ja, 上田藍, born 26 October 1983 in Kyoto) is a Japanese triathlete. She is the winner of the 2005 and 2008 Asian Triathlon Championship and the winner of the 2013 ITU Duathlon World Championships. She has represented Japan in tria ...
(上田藍, born 1983), professional triathlete
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Akinari Ueda (1734–1809), Japanese author, scholar and waka poet
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Akira Ueda (上田 晃, born 1970), video game designer
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Arisawa Ueda (上田有沢, 1850-1921), Imperial Japanese Navy admiral
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Bin Ueda (上田 敏, 1874–1916), writer and translator
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Fumito Ueda
is a Japanese video game designer. Ueda is best known as the director and lead designer of '' Ico'' (2001) and ''Shadow of the Colossus'' (2005) while leading Team Ico at Japan Studio, and ''The Last Guardian'' (2016) through his own development ...
(上田 文人, born 1970), video game designer
*, Japanese swimmer
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Hatsumi Ueda, Japanese shogi player
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Herbert T. Ueda, American ice drilling engineer
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Hiroki Ueda, Japanese biologist
*, Japanese table tennis player
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Kana Ueda
is a Japanese voice actress and singer represented by I'm Enterprise.Doi, Hitoshi"Ueda Kana" ''Seiyuu Database''. June 11, 2010Archivedby WebCite July 6, 2010. She is a graduate of Kobe College's department of General Culture.
She is best known ...
(植田 佳奈, born 1980), Japanese singer and voice actress
*, Japanese kickboxer, martial artist and professional wrestler
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Keisuke Ueda (植田 圭輔, born 1989), Japanese actor, voice actor and singer
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Ken-ichi Ueda (植田 憲一), Japanese laser scientist
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Kenkichi Ueda
was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. He played an active role in the Soviet-Japanese Border Wars of the late 1930s.
Biography
Born in Osaka prefecture, Ueda attended the predecessor of Hitotsubashi U ...
(植田謙吉, 1875–1962), general in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War
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Makoto Ueda (architecture critic) __NOTOC__
is an editor and architecture critic.
After graduating in French literature from Waseda University, Ueda worked as an editor of architectural magazines, notably as chief editor of ''Toshi Jūtaku.''
Books by Ueda
*''Anjero Manjarot ...
(植田実, born 1935), editor and architecture critic
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Makoto Ueda (poetry critic)
was a professor emeritus of Japanese literature at Stanford University.
Education and career
He earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature in 1961.
In 2004–2005 he served as the honorary curator of the American Haiku Archives at the California ...
(上田真, 1931–2020), professor, author of numerous books about Japanese poetry
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Masaharu Ueda
Masaharu Ueda ( Japanese: 上田正治) (born January 1, 1938) is a Japanese cinematographer. He worked several times with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography
The Academy Award for Best C ...
(born 1938), Japanese cinematographer
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Miyuki Ueda
is a Japanese actress and voice actress. She is married to singer Isao Sasaki and is a childhood friend of fellow voice actor Katsuji Mori.
Notable voice work
Anime television series
* ''8 Man'' (Sachiko Seki)
*''City Hunter'' (Megumi Iwasaki ...
(上田みゆき, 1944), Japanese actress and voice actress
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Reina Ueda (上田 麗奈, born 1994), Japanese voice actress and singer
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Rinko Ueda
is a Japanese manga artist who does mainly ''shojo'' manga. Her works are primarily serialized in ''Margaret'' magazine, with series published in collected volumes by Shueisha, though she has also been featured in fellow Shueisha publication ' ...
, Japanese manga artist
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese footballer
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Seiji Ueda (上田清二, born 1952), astronomer, asteroid hunter
*, Japanese comedian and television presenter
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Shizuteru Ueda
was a Japanese philosopher specialized in philosophy of religion, especially in philosophy of Buddhism and Zen. He was a professor at Kyoto University and considered a third generation member of Kyoto School (京都学派, Kyoto-gakuha).
Biogra ...
(上田 閑照, born 1926), Japanese philosopher specializing in philosophy of religion
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Shōji Ueda
__NOTOC__ was a photographer of Tottori, Japan, who combined surrealist compositional elements with realistic depiction. Most of the work for which Ueda is widely known was photographed within a strip of about 350 km running from Igumi (on ...
(植田 正治, 1913–2000), photographer
*, Japanese samurai
*, Japanese writer
*, Japanese badminton player
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Tatsuya Ueda
, is a Japanese idol, singer, and actor from the Japanese idol group KAT-TUN. Born in Kanagawa in Japan, he joined the Japanese talent agency, Johnny & Associates in 1998. In March 2006 he debuted as a member of the Japanese boy band KAT-TUN an ...
(上田 竜也, born 1983), member of Japanese boy band Kat-tun
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Toshiko Ueda
was a Japanese manga artist. After apprenticing under the manga artist Katsuji Matsumoto at the age of seventeen, Ueda published her first manga in 1937. Like her mentor, she drew mainly humorous manga, both in '' shōjo'' (girls) magazines a ...
(上田 トシコ, 1917–2008), manga artist
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Toyozo Ueda (上田 豊三, born 1937), Japanese Supreme Court justice
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Yōji Ueda
is a Japanese voice actor formerly affiliated with Mausu Promotion and currently affiliated with Amuleto. His name was until April 1, 2008.
Filmography
Anime series
*'' Bakusō Kyōdai Let's & Go!! WGP'' (1997) (Luchino)
*''Naruto'' (2002) ( ...
(上田 燿司, born 1974), Japanese voice actor
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Yūji Ueda
is a Japanese actor, voice actor and singer from Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. He is best known for voicing the roles of Sagara Sanosuke in ''Rurouni Kenshin'', Akito Tenkawa in ''Martian Successor Nadesico'', Takeshi/Brock and Sonansu/Wobbuffet ...
(上田 祐司, born 1967), Japanese voice actor
See also
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Ueta, a Japanese surname written the same way
References
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Japanese-language surnames