Nomura

Last updated March 06, 2025 • 3 min readFrom Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Nomura (written: 野村 "field village" or 埜村 "wilderness village") is a Japanese surname.

Notable people with the surname include:

Don Nomura (born 1957), Japanese-American baseball agent
Katsuhiro Nomura [ ja ] (野村勝人), Japanese voice actor, including in the manga series Living for the Day After Tomorrow
Katsunori Nomura (野村克則, born 1973), Japanese baseball player and coach
Katsuya Nomura (野村克也, 1935–2020), Japanese baseball player and manager
Ken Nomura (野村謙, born 1965), Japanese D1 Grand Prix Driver
Kenji Nomura (乃村健次, born 1970), Japanese voice actor
Kenjiro Nomura (disambiguation), multiple people
Kichisaburō Nomura (野村吉三郎, 1877–1964), Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and the ambassador to the United States until the attack on Pearl Harbor
Kodō Nomura (野村胡堂, 1882–1963), pen-name of Japanese writer Osakazu Nomura, a novelist and music critic in Showa period Japan
Kunichi Nomura (野村訓市, born 1974), Japanese writer, actor, radio personality, book editor, interior designer, creative director, and DJ
Mami Nomura (野村真美, born 1964), Japanese actress
Mary Nomura (born 1925), Japanese-American singer, "the songbird of Manzanar"
Masayasu Nomura (野村眞康, 1927–2011), Japanese-American biochemist who made seminal contributions in the field of RNA biology
Mayuka Nomura (野村真悠華, born 1989), Japanese voice actress
Michiko Nomura (野村道子, born 1938), Japanese voice actress
Misu Nomura (野村ミス, 1896–1979), Japanese politician
Mizuki Nomura (野村美月), Japanese light novelist
Mutsuhiko Nomura (野村六彦, born 1940), Japanese footballer and manager
Naokuni Nomura (野村直邦, 1885–1973), Japanese admiral and naval attache to Nazi Germany
Ryutaro Nomura (野村龍太郎, 1859–1943), Japanese businessman
Satoru Nomura (野村悟, born 1946), Japanese Yakuza leader
Sayo Nomura (野村沙世, born 1989), Japanese long-distance runner
Shin Nomura (野村伸, born 1955), Japanese manga artist
Shūsuke Nomura (野村秋介, 1935–1993), Japanese activist
Tadahiro Nomura (野村忠宏, born 1974), Japanese Judo competitor
Takahito Nomura (野村貴仁, born 1969), Japanese baseball player
Takashi Nomura (野村孝, 1927–2015), Japanese film director
Tatsuji Nomura (野村達次, 1922–2013), Japanese scientist; pioneer in the development of laboratory animals for biomedical researches
Tetsuya Nomura (野村哲也, born 1970), Japanese game and character designer; works at Square Enix
Tokushichi Nomura II (野村徳七二代, 1878–1945), Japanese businessman; founder of the Nomura zaibatsu
Tomohiro Nomura (野村智宏, born 1975), Japanese high jumper
Toshiro Nomura (野村敏郎, born 1954), Japanese astronomer
Toyokazu Nomura (野村豊和, born 1949), Japanese judoka
Yasunori Nomura (野村泰紀, born 1974), Japanese theoretical physicist
Yasushi Nomura (野村靖, 1842–1909), Japanese politician and cabinet minister
Yoshio Nomura (野村義男, born 1964), Japanese idol, musician and actor
Yoshitarō Nomura (野村芳太郎, 1919–2005), Japanese film director
Yozo Nomura (野村洋三, 1869-1965), Japanese businessman and proprietor of the Samurai Shokai company
Yuka Nomura (野村佑香, born 1984), Japanese actress
Inoue Masaru (bureaucrat) (井上勝, 1843–1910), Japanese bureaucrat; "Father of the Japanese Railways"; briefly bore the name Yakichi Nomura (野村弥吉)

Fictional characters

Tomoko Nomura (野村朋子), a character from the manga and anime series Great Teacher Onizuka

Nomura

Fictional characters

See also