Business
- Matsutaro Shoriki (sports commissioner / media mogul / politician, b.1885 d.1969): owned one of Japan's major daily newspapers, and founded Japan's first commercial television station. He also was elected to the House of Representatives and appointed to the House of Peers. He became Nippon Professional Baseball's (NPB) first commissioner in 1949, and in 1959, he was the first inductee into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame, and is known as the "father of Japanese professional baseball". In 1957, his biography was published in New York, titled Shoriki: Miracle Man of Japan. In 1969 he was awarded judo's highest rank by the Kodokan: 10th dan.
- Taki Theodoracopulos (shipping heir / businessman / writer / columnist, b.1937): Taki is 2008 World Masters judo champion, a former captain of the national Greek karate team (he holds a six-dan black belt), has represented Greek tennis in the Davis Cup, and is a keen skier and sailor. To take out the 2008 world title, he won nine three-minute matches, but lost two fingernails and suffered a black eye. He said: "Now I quit. I'll never do it again. I'm very banged up." He wrote about the experience in his online magazine.
- Francesco Rulli (businessman / filmmaker): born in Florence is a 4th degree black belt (Yodan), current competitor and member of the NYAC Judo Club and coach for the NYAC's Saturday Morning Program for children up to 13 years old. Francesco Rulli also created the website www.JudoArts.com and his company Film Annex is the main sponsor of the New York Judo Open Cup, co-sponsored with the New York Athletic Club. The New York Open Judo Cup is held once a year and its in invitational tournament for teams from allover the world, in the last three years the winners of this cup were Germany in 2011 and 2012 and France in 2013.
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