Takaki Kanehiro

In this Japanese name, the surname is Takaki.

Takaki Kanehiro
高木 兼寛
Takaki Kanehiro
Born(1849-10-30)30 October 1849
Takaoka, Hyūga Province, Satsuma Domain, Tokugawa shogunate
Died12 April 1920(1920-04-12) (aged 70)
Tokyo, Empire of Japan
NationalityJapanese
Known fornaval physician

Baron Takaki Kanehiro (高木 兼寛, 30 October 1849 – 12 April 1920) was a Japanese naval physician. He is known for his work on preventing the vitamin deficiency disease beriberi among sailors in the Japanese navy, who had been living mainly on white rice.