Famous People with Name Maeda

Maeda Atsuko            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Maeda Atsuko: a member of the Japanese idol group AKB48 TeamA. Her nickname is Acchan.In 2007, Maeda played the sub-leading role in the movie "Ashita no Watashi no Tsukurikata" (????????????, "Ashita no Watashi no Tsukurikata"?) This is her first performance as an actress. She started shooting this film August 20th,2006 and finished it in the end of September. She had her hair cut short for creating her part. She auditioned for this film before she was elected this role.AKB48 released "AITAKATTA" from the major label "DefSTER Records Inc.". (Before this disk, two disks were released as indies disks.) In this song, 20 members are selected from the 36 members (in TeamA & TeamK). Maeda is one of this selected member, and she performed leading role in the promortion video in this song.

Maeda Genzo            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Maeda Genzo: was a Japanese photographer from northern Kyushu. In Nagasaki he studied photography under Jan Karel van den Broek and J. L. C. Pompe van Meerdervoort. Neither of these teachers was an experienced photographer, and their attempts to produce photographs were largely failures. Nevertheless, in turn they taught wet-collodion process to Maeda and his fellow students, who included Furukawa Shumpei, Kawano Teizo, Ueno Hikoma, and Horie Kuwajiro, among others.

Maeda Nobuaki            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Maeda Nobuaki: was a Japanese professional go player, a disciple of Honinbo Shusai, and a member of the Nihon Ki-in, the main organizational body for go in Japan. His own disciples were Norio Kudo, Yusuke Oeda, Shiori Itsuzo, Nagahara Yoshiaki, and Morikawa Masao.Maeda reached the highest professional rank, 9 dan, in 1963, but never achieved the consistent record of tournament success that marks the truly elite player. Maeda is famous today principally for his series of tsume-go (problem) collections, which gained him the honorary nickname "god of tsume-go." It is said that he composed a problem a day for 40 years. Many of these problems are considered especially beautiful, ingenious, or instructive.[citation needed]

Maeda Gen'i            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Maeda Gen'i: was a Buddhist priest from Mt. Hiei, and later one of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Go-Bugyo (Five Elders). He entered the service of Oda Nobunaga sometime before 1570.Gen'i was appointed to be a deputy over Kyoto in 1582. After the death of Oda Nobunaga that same year, Gen'i went on to serve under Toyotomi Hideyoshi. At Takamai Domain in Tamba Province, Gen'i received a 50,000-koku fief. Ten years later, he was to lay the ground work for the Fushimi Castle. In 1595, Gen'i was named among the "Five Magistrates" by Hideyoshi. As a member of this council, Gen'i was "concerned with national affairs and subordinate only to Hideyoshi".[1] In addition to managing a great deal of other affairs, Maeda also oversaw the reception of the likes of the Emperor and representatives of the Jesuits to Hideyoshi's Jurakudai palace.

Maedayama Eigoro            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Maedayama Eigoro: was a sumo wrestler from Ehime Prefecture, Japan. He was the sport's 39th Yokozuna. He was born in Nishiuwa District. On his school excursion to Oita in the spring of 1926, he met future yokozuna Futabayama Sadaji, who had not yet joined Tatsunami stable,

Ryoichi Maeda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Ryoichi Maeda: is an Australian actor, best known for his role as Noah Lawson on soap opera, Home and Away.Brady was educated at Oakhill College in Castle Hill, and appeared on Home and Away from 2000 to 2004. During this time, he dated co-star Bec Cartwright, the pair were a high profile couple and were together for a while until their split. In 2006, he filmed Voodoo Lagoon, which stars Erika Heynatz.He has made appearances on Australia's Next Top Model and Crown Australian Celebrity Poker Challenge. His latest appearance was on the telemovie The King playing Graham Kennedy's gay lover.

Keijiro Maeda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Keijiro Maeda: a Japanese professional Heavyweight kick boxer, currently competing in martial arts organization K-1. Recently, he missed the title at K-1 World Grand Prix 2008 in Fukuoka in the final fight against Ewerton Teixeira.[1]

Shinzo Maeda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shinzo Maeda: is a Japanese photographer famous for landscape photographs and movies.He published 46 photography books in Japan, and founded the Tankei Photo Agency Co. The Shinzo Maeda Photo Art Gallery in Biei, Hokkaido, opened in 1987, and exhibits a number of his Hokkaido photographs.

Aki Maeda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Aki Maeda: a J-pop singer from Okinawa, Japan, and a current member of the group MAX. Before joining MAX, she had made her professional music debut in the short lived group, Hipp's.

Tatsuya Maeda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tatsuya Maeda: a anison, J-Pop singer and guitarist from Japan. Maeda was known as the singer (and guitarist) of the theme songs of Ultraman Dyna and Blue SWAT.