Ueda (surname)

Ueda is the romanization of different Japanese surnames, 上田 or (less commonly) 植田.

People with these surnames include:

• Ai Ueda (上田藍, born 1983), professional triathlete
• Ueda Akinari (1734–1809), Japanese author, scholar and waka poet,
• Akira Ueda (上田 晃, born 1970), video game designer
• Bin Ueda (上田 敏, 1874–1916), writer and translator
• Fumito Ueda (上田 文人, born 1970), video game designer
• Kana Ueda (植田 佳奈, born 1980), Japanese singer and voice actress.
• Kenkichi Ueda (植田謙吉, 1875–1962), general in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War
• Makoto Ueda (architecture critic) (植田実, born 1935), editor and architecture critic.
• Makoto Ueda (poetry critic) (上田真, born 1931), professor, author of numerous books about Japanese poetry
• Miyuki Ueda (上田みゆき, 1944), Japanese actress and voice actress.
• Rinko Ueda, Japanese manga artist
• Seiji Ueda (上田清二, born 1952), astronomer, asteroid hunter
• Shizuteru Ueda (上田 閑照, born 1926) is a Japanese philosopher specializing in philosophy of religion.
• Shōji Ueda (植田 正治, 1913–2000), photographer
• Tatsuya Ueda (上田 竜也, born 1983), member of Japanese boy band Kat-tun
• Yōji Ueda (上田 燿司, born 1974), Japanese voice actor
• Yūji Ueda (上田 祐司, born 1967), Japanese voice actor