Famous People with Name Wada

Wada Yenzo Nei            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Wada Yenzo Nei: was a Japanese mathematician. He was born in Yedo in the province Harima under the name of Koyama Naoaki. In his early years he served in a buddhist temple in Yedo under the name Zojoji. When he left the temple he changed his name for unknown reasons to Wada Nei and worked under the patronage of lord Tsuchimikado the calendar maker of the court of Mikado. There he started to take up mathematics and was a student of Kusaka Sei. Kusaka Sei himself was a student of Ajima Chokuyen. Wada Nei extended Ajima Chokuyen's development of an integral calculus within the Enri (??, "circle principle") context. He worked on the computation of minimum and maximum values (roughly by equating the first derivative to 0) and gave reasoning and insight to the computation method that was given without explanation by Seki Takakazu about 100 years earlier. He was also the first Japanese mathematician to study roulettes.

Akiko "Akko" Wada            Origin/Culture/Country: Korean

Akiko "Akko" Wada: a female Japanese singer and television performer of Korean ancestry, originally hailing from Higashinari-ku, Osaka. Like many Zainichi Koreans, she had a legal Korean name and a name for everyday use, which was Japanicized Fukuko Kaneumi (????, Kaneumi Fukuko?). Due to her above-average height (174 cm or 5'8.5"), she is nicknamed "jotei" (??), meaning "empress".She voice acted as Koopa in Super Mario Bros.: Peach-Hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen!, the first time he had been voiced.

Jujiro Wada            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Jujiro Wada: was a Japanese adventurer and entrepreneur who achieved fame for his exploits in turn-of-the-20th-century Alaska and Yukon Territory.According to his own account, Wada was born on February 12, 1872,[1] in Ehime Prefecture, Japan, to wealthy parents. Wada said that he arrived in San Francisco in late 1891, and that his purpose of traveling to the United States was to attend Yale University.[2]Researcher Yuji Tani provides an alternative story. According to Tani, Wada was born in Ehime Prefecture in 1874 or 1875. He was the second son of a former samurai fallen on hard times, and his father died when Jujiro was four. Subsequently, Jujiro and his mother went to live with his mother's relatives. In 1888, when he was 13 or 14 years of age (by Japanese counting, which would mean 12 or 13 by American), Jujiro went to work in a relative's paper factory. At the factory, he heard tales about the fabulous wealth of America.[3] Consequently, in March 1890, he took a steamship to San Francisco.[4

Kazuhiro Wada            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kazuhiro Wada: a Japanese professional baseball player, currently playing outfield for the Chunichi Dragons of the Nippon Professional Baseball league.Playing for Tohoku Fukushi University, he was MVP of the Sendai Big Six University League as a senior and won the batting title. He hit .429 for Kobe Seiko in the industrial leagues, then in 1996 was drafted in the fourth round of the Japanese draft by the Seibu Lions. He hit .190 in 1997 when he first played for Seibu and was 0/1 in the 1997 Japan Series. In 1998, Wada hit .333 in 36 games for Seibu and split his time between catching and the outfield. He went 0/2 in the 1998 Japan Series. In 1999, he batted .271 while again seeing limited time behind the plate, with Tsutomu Itoh starting.

Yutaka Wada            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yutaka Wada: a former Japanese baseball player for the Hanshin Tigers. He currently works as a hitting coach for the Hanshin Tigers. He is notable for various accomplishments, which include the following:

Shoko Wada            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shoko Wada: is a Japanese former handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.