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- Minakata Kumagusu was a Japanese author and naturalist. Minakata was born in Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture. In 1883, Minakata moved to Tokyo, where he entered the preparatory school Kyouritsu Gakkou. The head master of Kyouritsu, Korekyo Takahashi, encouraged Minakata in his botanical studies as well as got him interested in English. The following year, Minakata passed the entrance exam to Tokyo University Preparatory School (Tokyo Daigaku Yobimon), counting among his classmates, the novelist Natsume Souseki. At end end of 1886, Minakata set off to study in the United States. He arrived in San Francisco in January of the next year, and he studied there for about 6 months. He next went to Michigan State Agricultural College, where he was accepted, becoming the first Japanese to pass the entrance exam there. These were just the first steps, however, in Minakata's unusually adventurous studies in various parts of the world, which would eventually include Cuba, Haiti, what is now Panama, Venezula, and England, before returning to Japan. In addition to his studies in slime moulds, Minakata was intensely interested in folklore, religion and natural history. He wrote several papers, including 51 monographs in Nature. He is famous for discovering many varieties of mycetozoa. Minakata was also an epileptic, suffering from grand mal seizures. He was able to predict when he was about to have a seizure (as is common in epilepsy) due to a sense of déjà vu. Minakata was a virgin till 41 years old.
- 南方 熊楠（みなかた くまぐす、1867年5月18日（慶応3年4月15日） - 1941年（昭和16年）12月29日）は、日本の博物学者、生物学者（とくに菌類学）、民俗学者。菌類学者としては動物の特徴と植物の特徴を併せ持つ粘菌の研究で知られている。主著『十二支考』『南方随筆』など。投稿論文や書簡が主な執筆対象であったため、平凡社編集による全集が刊行された。「歩くエンサイクロペディア（百科事典）」と呼ばれ、彼の言動や性格が奇抜で人並み外れたものであるため、後世に数々の逸話を残している。
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