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

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

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

South America

Literature

Budōka Aïkidoka