List of Famous people with last name Yamanaka

Shinya Yamanaka

First Name Shinya
Last Name Yamanaka
Born on September 4, 1962 (age 62)

Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese stem cell researcher, winner of the Nobel Prize. He serves as the director of Center for iPS Cell Research and Application and a professor at the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at Kyoto University; as a senior investigator at the UCSF-affiliated J. David Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, California; and as a professor of anatomy at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Yamanaka is also a past president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR).

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Shinsuke Yamanaka

First Name Shinsuke
Last Name Yamanaka
Born on October 11, 1982 (age 42)
Height 171 cm | 5'7

Shinsuke Yamanaka is a Japanese former professional boxer who competed from 2006 to 2018. He held the WBC bantamweight title from 2011 to 2017, a reign where he made twelve successful defences and a reign which is the fourth longest in boxing's bantamweight division. He also held The Ring bantamweight title twice between 2016 and 2018.

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Miwako Yamanaka

First Name Miwako
Last Name Yamanaka
Born on May 24, 1978 (age 46)

Miwako Yamanaka is a retired Japanese long-distance runner. Her first and only international medal came at the 1997 Summer Universiade where she took the bronze in the 10,000 metres. She won the Kobe Women's Half Marathon in 2001, setting a personal best time of 1:08:54 for the event.

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Joe Yamanaka

First Name Joe
Last Name Yamanaka
Died on August 7, 2011 (aged 41)

Akira Yamanaka , better known as Joe Yamanaka (ジョー山中), was a Japanese singer and actor. He is known for both his work with Flower Travellin' Band and as a solo musician; singing at a vocal range of three octaves. As an actor, he appeared in many television shows and movies, such as Takashi Miike's Deadly Outlaw: Rekka and the 1989 version of Zatoichi.

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Ryōhei Yamanaka

First Name Ryōhei
Born on June 22, 1988 (age 36)

Ryohei Yamanaka is a Japanese rugby union player who plays as a fly-half or centre.

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Hirofumi Yamanaka

First Name Hirofumi
Born on September 9, 1985 (age 39)
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Hirofumi Yamanaka is a Japanese former baseball pitcher. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and Tokyo Yakult Swallows.

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Chihiro Yamanaka

First Name Chihiro
Born on November 30, 1974 (age 50)

Chihiro Yamanaka is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer, born in Kiryū, Gunma Prefecture. As of 2012, she was based in New York City.

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Ryosuke Yamanaka

First Name Ryosuke
Born on April 20, 1993 (age 31)
Height 171 cm | 5'7

Ryosuke Yamanaka is a Japanese football player for Urawa Red Diamonds.

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Ryuya Yamanaka

First Name Ryuya
Born on April 11, 1995 (age 29)
Height 161 cm | 5'3

Ryuya Yamanaka is a Japanese former professional boxer who held the WBO minimumweight title from 2017 to 2018.

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Tsuyoshi Yamanaka

First Name Tsuyoshi
Last Name Yamanaka
Born on January 18, 1939
Died on February 10, 2017 (aged 78)

Tsuyoshi Yamanaka was a Japanese freestyle swimmer. He competed in the 400 m, 1500 m and 4 × 200 m events at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won four silver medals; he also helped Japan win a bronze relay medal in 1964 by swimming in the heat, and placed fourth in the 4 × 200 m relay in 1956 and in the 1500m in 1960. At the 1960 Olympics, he swam the fastest leg in the 4 × 200 m relay, yet his team lost to the United States. Yamanaka won the 400 m and 1500 m events at the 1958 Asian Games.

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