Famous People with Name Yagi

Hidetsugu Yagi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hidetsugu Yagi: was a Japanese electrical engineer. When working at Tohoku University, he wrote several important articles that introduced a new antenna design by his colleague Shintaro Uda to the English-speaking world. The Yagi antenna, patented in 1926, allows directional communication using electromagnetic waves, and is now installed on millions of houses throughout the world for radio and television reception. He also tried, unsuccessfully, to introduce a wireless power transmission system.

Jukichi Yagi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Jukichi Yagi: was a Japanese poet on modern religious themes, active in late Taisho and for the first few years of Showa period Japan.Born in Tokyo, Yagi attended the Kanagawa Prefectural Normal School in Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture, where he converted to Methodism, and became attracted to the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore. In 1919, he was baptized at the Komagome Christian Church in Tokyo. He remained a devout Protestant all his short life, but migrated to Non-Church Christianity (Mukyokai) as advocated by Uchimura Kanzo.

Hirokazu Yagi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hirokazu Yagi: a former Japanese ski jumper who competed between 1979 and 1984. His best known finish was a Silver Medal in the Individual Normal Hill at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, (Tied with Manfred Deckert of East Germany.).