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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 Dōshu*
• Moriteru Ueshiba – son of Kisshomaru, third and current Dōshu*
• 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*
• Takako Kunigoshi*
• 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*
• Terada Kiyoyuki
• Tsutomu Yukawa*

Non-Japanese in Japan

• Jacques Payet

Australia

• Tony Smibert
• Joe Thambu

Europe

• Kenshiro Abbe*
• Tadashi Abe*
• Katsuaki Asai*
• Pierre Chassang
• Jan Hermansson
• Toshikazu Ichimura
• Masatomi Ikeda
• Loi Lee
• André Nocquet*
• Masamichi Noro*
• Alan Ruddock*
• Stefan Stenudd
• Toshiro Suga
• Nobuyoshi Tamura*
• Christian Tissier
• André Cognard

North America

• Kazuo Chiba*
• Frank Doran
• Terry Dobson*
• Robert Frager*
• Karl Geis
• William Gleason
• Patricia Hendricks
• Gaku Homma*
• Hiroshi Ikeda
• Mitsunari Kanai*
• Roderick Kobayashi
• Harvey Konigsberg
• Takashi Kushida
• George Leonard
• Donald N. Levine
• Thomas H. Makiyama
• Haruo Matsuoka
• Robert Mustard
• Robert Nadeau*
• Mutsuro Nakazono*
• Kenji Ota
• Amos Lee Parker
• Mitsugi Saotome*
• Steven Seagal
• John Stevens
• Richard Strozzi-Heckler
• Roy Y. Suenaka*
• Seiichi Sugano*
• Jon Takagi
• Akira Tohei*
• Fumio Toyoda
• Nick Walker
• Yoshimitsu Yamada*

South East Asia

• Benjamin Galarpe

South America

• Reishin Kawai

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.

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