Leadership

• Hideki Tojo (born 1885, died 1948)

  Japanese military leader and statesman. Hanged as a war criminal after World War II.

  • Japanese prime minister, 1941-44 (see list of Miscellaneous Political Leaders)

Science and Philosophy

• Hideki Shirakawa (born 1936)

  Japanese chemist

  • 2000 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry with Alan J. Heeger and Alan G. MacDiarmid (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry)
• Hideki Yukawa (born 1907, died 1981)

  Japanese physicist who predicted the existence of mesons.

  • 1949 Nobel Prize winner in Physics (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics)