List of aikidoka
This is a list of famous and well-known aikido practitioners (aikidōka) sorted by area of primary residence.
Direct students of Morihei Ueshiba are marked with an asterisk*
Japan
The Ueshiba family
- Morihei Ueshiba - founder of Aikido, often referred to as Ōsensei.
- Kisshomaru Ueshiba - son of founder, second Doshu*
- Moriteru Ueshiba - son of Kisshomaru, third and current Doshu
- Mitsuteru Ueshiba - son of Moriteru and presumed successor
Other Japanese aikidoka
- Seiseki Abe*
- Tsuneo Ando
- Sadateru Arikawa*
- Seishiro Endo*
- Michio Hikitsuchi*
- Minoru Hirai*
- Takuma Hisa*
- Kazuo Igarashi
- Masatomi Ikeda
- Shizuo Imaizumi
- Kyoichi Inoue
- Noriaki (Yoichiro) Inoue*
- Hiroshi Isoyama*
- Hiroshi Kato*
- Hirokazu Kobayashi*
- Yasuhiro Konishi*
- Yasuo Kobayashi*
- Koretoshi Maruyama*
- Shuji Maruyama*
- Minoru Mochizuki*
- Tetsuro Nariyama
- Shoji Nishio*
- Hideo Ohba
- Kisaburo Osawa*
- Hitohiro Saito
- Morihiro Saito*
- Fumiaki Shishida
- Kenji Shimizu*
- Gozo Shioda*
- Seiichi Sugano*
- Morito Suganuma*
- Yoshio Sugino*
- Kanshu Sunadomari*
- Hiroshi Tada*
- Isamu Takeshita*
- Bansen Tanaka*
- Kiyoyuki Terada
- Koichi Tohei*
- Kenji Tomiki*
- Seigo Yamaguchi*
- Tsutomu Yukawa*
Non-Japanese in Japan
Australia
Europe
North America
- Kazuo Chiba*
- Frank Doran
- Terry Dobson*
- William Gleason
- Patricia Hendricks
- Gaku Homma*
- Hiroshi Ikeda
- Mitsunari Kanai*
- Harvey Konigsberg
- Yutaka Kurita*
- Takako Kunigoshi*
- Takashi Kushida
- George Leonard
- Donald N. Levine
- Thomas H. Makiyama
- Robert Mustard
- Robert Nadeau*
- Mutsuro Nakazono*
- Kenji Ota
- Mitsugi Saotome*
- Steven Seagal
- John Stevens
- Richard Strozzi-Heckler
- Roy Y. Suenaka*
- Seiichi Sugano*
- Jon Takagi
- Akira Tohei
- Fumio Toyoda
- Yoshimitsu Yamada*
South East Asia
South America
Literature
- Pranin, Stanley A, ed. Aikido masters: prewar students of Morihei Ueshiba. Tokyo: Aiki News. 1993. ISBN 4-900586-14-5 This volume contains 14 in-depth interviews with direct participants in the early days of Aikido publisher
- Stone, John and Meyer, Ron (eds.) Aikido in America North Atlantic Books 1995. ISBN 1883319277 Interviews limited to 13 aikidoists in the United States from 1990 to 1994; not meant to be comprehensive, Japanese teachers not covered. Editors were primarily interested in how Americans have responded to, changed, and expanded Aikido in the United States.