Taro Takemi KBE (武見 太郎, Takemi Tarō, August 7, 1904 – December 20, 1983) was a Japanese physician who served as 11th President of the Japan Medical Association for 25 years from 1957 to 1982, and also served as president of the World Medical Association from 1975 to 1976.

[2] He went to RIKEN to study the application of nuclear physics to medicine under Yoshio Nishina who was a famous physicist in Japan.

[1] He became a clinician in Ginza, Tokyo in 1939, and served as a visiting professor at Keio, Kitasato, and Tokai universities in Japan, and advised the Japan Science and Technology Agency.

[1] In 1982, he was appointed a visiting professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, but was unable to fulfill the commitment due to illness.

[3] The Takemi Memorial Hall was established by the Japan Radioisotope Association in Takizawa, Iwate in 1989.