Ume (Umeko) Tange (丹下 梅子; 1873–1955) was one of the first three women admitted to a Japanese university in 1913.

Ume Tange was the sixth child of seven siblings in a prosperous family in Kagoshima, southern Japan.

[1] While playing with one of her sisters, Tange was injured when she fell on a chopstick, losing the sight in one eye.

[1][3][2] After graduating, she worked as an assistant there, and became the first woman to pass the secondary teacher examination in chemistry.

[1] At Johns Hopkins, she was awarded a PhD in 1927, with a thesis entitled The preparation and properties of the alophanates of certain sterols.