Famous People with Name Hideki

Hideki Yukawa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hideki Yukawa: a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate.

Hideki Shirakawa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hideki Shirakawa: a Japanese chemist and winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of conductive polymers together with physics professor Alan J. Heeger and chemistry professor Alan G MacDiarmid at the University of Pennsylvania.

Hideki Okajima            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hideki Okajima: born December 25, 1975) is a Japanese left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball.

Hideki Matsui            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hideki Matsui: a Japanese Major League Baseball left fielder who plays for the New York Yankees. He bats left-handed and throws right-handed.Following high school Matsui was drafted by the Yomiuri Giants in the first round. Based in Tokyo, the Giants are Japan's most famous and, by far, most successful baseball franchise. Coincidentally, Yomiuri is often referred to by fans and detractors alike as the "New York Yankees of Japan.

Hideki Takahashi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hideki Takahashi: a Japanese actor. Born in Kisarazu, Chiba near Tokyo, he attended Ichikawa Gakuen and later Nihon University.Modern roles are also in his repertoire. Among these is Detective Totsukawa in the Nishimura Kyotaro Travel Mystery series. Takahashi is also active as a personality in quiz shows, exemplified by Quiz Nihonjin no Shitsumon (NHK, 1993–2003). He has also appeard as a judge for Iron Chef.

Noda Hideki            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Noda Hideki: a Japanese playwright, theatre director and actor.He formed Yume no Yumin Sha(?????) when he was studying at Tokyo University. After the Yume no Yumin Sha broke up in 1992, he went to London to study theatres. Back to Japan, he formed a new unit, NODA MAP.During 1980s, he is seen as one of the prominent figure in Japanese Sho-Gekijo movement. His plays contains a lot of word game and sometimes he remakes classics from Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung to traditional Kabuki plays.

Hokutoriki Hideki            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hokutoriki Hideki: is a sumo wrestler, from Tochigi, Japan. He reached the top makuuchi division in 2002 and has been runner-up in three tournaments. He has won four special prizes in his career. The highest rank he has reached is sekiwake. Hokutoriki relies almost exclusiv

Tamarikido Hideki            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tamarikido Hideki: is a former sumo wrestler born in Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan. Though born in Japan, he is a Zainichi Korean. His highest rank was maegashira 8. A former amateur champion, he turned professional in 1997, reaching the top makuuchi division in 2001. He had many i