Famous People with Name Akiba

Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein: (12 December 1882, in Stawiski, Poland – 15 March 1961 in Antwerp, Belgium) was a famous Polish chess Grandmaster at the beginning of the 20th century.

Tadahiro Akiba            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tadahiro Akiba: a Japanese football player who currently plays for Thespa Kusatsu of the J-League.

Kenya Akiba            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kenya Akiba: a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Miyagi Prefecture, he attended Chuo University as an undergraduate and received his mater's degree from Tohoku University. He was elected to the first of his three terms in the assembly of Miyagi Prefecture in 1995 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2005.

Tadatoshi Akiba            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tadatoshi Akiba: is mayor of the city of Hiroshima, Japan.He studied mathematics at the University of Tokyo, receiving a B.S. in 1966 and an M.S. in 1968. He continued his studies under John Milnor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1970. He took teaching jobs at a series of universities: State University of New York at Stony Brook (1970), Tufts University (1972–1986), and Hiroshima Shudo University (1986–1997). His research was on topology, with an interest in homotopy groups.

Nobuhide Akiba            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Nobuhide Akiba: is a Japanese footballer who plays for Thespa Kusatsu.

Yoichi Akiba            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoichi Akiba: is a former Japanese footballer who has played for Yokohama F.C. and Mito HollyHock.