Famous People with Name Asada

Mao Asada            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Mao Asada: a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2008 World Figure Skating Champion and Four Continents champion, the 2005/2006 season Grand Prix champion and the 2007 & 2008 Japanese national champion. Asada is currently ranked first in the world.[1],Mao Asada originally started out studying ballet, but later switched to skating in 1995 when her sister, Mai Asada also switched from ballet to figure skating.She won the Japanese novice national championships in the 2002-2003 season and earned an invitation to compete at the Junior national championships, where she placed 4th. She advanced to the senior championships and placed 7th. The following season, she repeated those placements at the Novice and Junior national championships and placed 8th at the senior level. That season, Asada competed internationally for the first time and won the Mladost Trophy.

Goryu Asada            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Goryu Asada: was a Japanese astronomer who helped to introduce modern astronomical instruments and methods into Japan. Asada spent much of his career in the flourishing commercial city of Osaka, where he practiced medicine for a living. Because of the Japanese government's policy of seclusion, Western scientific theory was generally available only through obsolete Chinese works edited by Jesuit missionaries in China. Yet Asada managed to construct sophisticated mathematical models of celestial movements and is sometimes credited with the independent discovery of Kepler's third law.

Kaori Asada            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kaori Asada: a Japanese singer / songwriter. She lived in New York during 1998 and speaks English (many of her songs are entirely in English). She writes and composes all her songs, and plays guitar and piano. Kaori Asada has said that the name Bonnie Pink is random and that she thought the words were cute together. There is no special meaning behind the name, she chose it because it was easy to remember.[1]Bonnie Pink was quite famous in her early years during the 90s and the early 2000s, but she slowly drifted out of popularity. However, in 2006 her hit single "A Perfect Sky" went to the top of the charts and brought her back into the J-Pop spotlight and her latest albums have become very popular and major successes for the 35-year-old singer.

Mai Asada            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Mai Asada: a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2004-2005 Japanese junior national silver medalist.