The Usesugi clan where devoted Buddhists above all unlike many clans and where a known offspring of the Date Clan descended from the Fujiwara Clan these Uesugi used the Ikko Ikki Monks more obsessively then the other clans and had more of a tie with the people than others.
Notables
- Uesugi Shigefusa (13th century)
- Uesugi Norifusa (died 1355)
- Uesugi Shigeyoshi (died 1349)
- Uesugi Akiyoshi (died 1351)
- Uesugi Yoshinori (died 1378)
- Uesugi Noriharu (died 1379)
- Uesugi Norikata (1335–1394)
- Uesugi Norimoto (1383–1418)
- Uesugi Norizane (1410–1466)
- Uesugi Kiyokata (died 1442)
- Uesugi Fusaaki (1432–1466)
- Uesugi Noritada (1433–1454)
- Uesugi Akisada (1454–1510)
- Uesugi Tomooki (1488–1537)
- Uesugi Norimasa (1522–1579)
- Uesugi Tomosada (1525–1546)
- Uesugi Kenshin (1530–1578)
- Uesugi Kagetora (1552–1579)
- Uesugi Kagekatsu (1555–1623)
- Uesugi Harunori (1751–1822)
- Amakasu Kagemochi
- Ayukawa Kiyonaga
- Honjō Shigenaga
- Honjô Hidetsuna
- Irobe Katsunaga
- Jojo Masashige
- Kakizaki Kageie
- Kawada Nagachika
- Kitajô Takahiro
- Kitajô Kagehiro
- Kojima Motoshige
- Kojima Yataro
- Murakami Yoshikiyo
- Nakajô Fujikasuke
- Nakajô Kageyasu
- Naoe Kagetsuna
- Naoe Kanetsugu
- Okuma Tomohide
- Saito Tomonobu
- Samponji Sadanaga
- Shibata Naganori
- Shibata Shigeie
- Suda Mitsuchika
- Suibara Takaie
- Takemata Yoshitsuna
- Usami Sadamitsu
- Yamayoshi Toyomori
- Yasuda Akimoto
- Yasuda Nagahide
- Yoshie Kagesuke