List of Famous people named Inoue

The Marquis Inoue Kaoru , GCMG was a Japanese politician and a prominent member of the Meiji oligarchy during the Meiji period of the Empire of Japan. As one of the senior statesmen in Japan during that period, he had a tremendous influence on the selection of the nation's leaders and formation of its policies.

Inoue Enryō was a Japanese philosopher, Buddhist reformer, educator, and royalist. A key figure in the reception of Western philosophy, the emergence of modern Buddhism, and the permeation of the imperial ideology during the second half of the Meiji Era. He is the founder of Toyo University and the creator of Tetsugaku-dō Park 哲学堂公園 in Tokyo. Because he studied apparitions in order to debunk superstitions, he is sometimes called Professor Specter and the Spook Doctor .

Viscount Inoue Masaru was the first Director of Railways in Japan and is known as the "father of the Japanese railways".