Nakamura (surname) explained
Nakamura |
Pronunciation: | Nakamura |
Meaning: | Middle village |
Region: | Japanese |
Origin: | Japanese |
Footnotes: | [1] |
is the 5th-most-common Japanese surname.[2] Less-common variants are, and . Notable people with the surname include:
Sports
- , Japanese tennis player
- , Japanese decathlete
- , Japanese ice hockey player
- , Japanese figure skater
- , Japanese volleyball player
- , Japanese rugby sevens player
- , Japanese field hockey player
- , Japanese ice hockey player
- , Japanese swimmer
- Kazuhiro Nakamura (ski jumper) (born 1980), Japanese ski jumper
- , Japanese volleyball player
- , Japanese basketball coach
- , Japanese sailor
- , Japanese figure skater
- , Japanese table tennis player
- Kisato Nakamura (born 1993), Japanese cyclist
- , Japanese middle-distance runner
- , Japanese basketball player
- , Japanese swimmer
- , Japanese synchronized swimmer
- , Japanese rugby union player and coach
- , Japanese speed skater
- , Japanese swimmer
- , Japanese rugby union player
- , Japanese speed skater
- , Japanese figure skater
- Tadao Nakamura (born 1947), Japanese golfer
- , Japanese biathlete
- , Japanese gymnast
- Teruo Nakamura (golfer) (born 1952), Japanese golfer
- Tomohiko Nakamura (born 1991), Japanese vert skater
- , Japanese golfer
- , Japanese golfer
- , Japanese bobsledder
- , Japanese baseball player
- , Japanese long-distance runner
- , Japanese long-distance runner
- , Japanese volleyball player
Martial arts and wrestling
- , Japanese mixed martial artist
- , Japanese mixed martial artist
- , Japanese mixed martial artist and judoka
- , Japanese professional wrestler
- , Japanese mixed martial artist
- , Japanese judoka
- , Japanese judoka
- , better known as Bad Nurse Nakamura, Japanese professional wrestler
- Seigi Nakamura (1924–1999), Okinawan karateka
- Shigeru Nakamura (karate instructor) (born 1894), Japanese karate instructor
- , Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
- , Japanese martial artist and founder of Japanese yoga
- , Japanese boxer
- , Japanese judoka
- , Japanese judoka
Baseball
- , Japanese baseball player
- , Japanese baseball player
- , Japanese baseball player
- , Japanese baseball player
- , Japanese baseball player
- Micheal Nakamura (born 1976), Japanese-Australian baseball player
- , Japanese baseball player
- , Japanese baseball player
- , Japanese baseball player
- , Japanese baseball player
Board games
- , Japanese Go player
- Hikaru Nakamura (born 1987), American chess player
- , Japanese shogi player
- , Japanese shogi player
- , Japanese Renju player
- , Japanese Go player
- , Japanese Magic: The Gathering player
- , Japanese Go player
- , Japanese shogi player
- , Japanese shogi player
Football
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- Haruki Nakamura (born 1986), American football player
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese women's footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer and manager
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer and manager
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
Academia
- , Japanese astronomer
- , Japanese academic
- Alice Nakamura, Canadian economist
- , Japanese chemist
- Emi Nakamura, American economist
- , Japanese academic
- , Japanese biochemist
- Karen Nakamura (born 1970), American academic and writer
- , Japanese scholar of Islam
- Lisa Nakamura, American academic
- , Japanese scientist
- , Japanese-born American engineer, inventor of blue LEDs, academic and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014
- , Japanese economist
- , Japanese physician
- , Japanese quantum physicist
- , Japanese geneticist and cancer researcher
Arts
- , Japanese model, television personality and actress
- Carol Nakamura (born 1983), Brazilian dancer, actress and television personality
- , Japanese writer
- , Japanese writer
- , Japanese anime screenwriter
- , Japanese writer
- , Japanese writer
- Tadashi Nakamura (filmmaker) (born c. 1980), Japanese-American filmmaker
Music
- , Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
- Aya Nakamura (born 1995), French singer
- Dan Nakamura, American music producer
- Goh Nakamura, American musician, film score composer and actor
- , Japanese songwriter and jazz pianist
- , Japanese singer, ballet dancer, rapper and member of K-pop girl group Le Sserafim
- , Japanese musician, and former guitarist and lead singer for the Japanese rock band Supercar
- , Japanese video game composer
- , Japanese singer
- , Japanese musician
- , Japanese singer-songwriter who performs under the name Naoto Inti Raymi
- , Japanese composer and music teacher
- , Japanese musician
- , Japanese jazz bassist
- Toshimaru Nakamura, Japanese musician
- , Japanese singer, model, television personality and gravure idol
- , Japanese composer and pianist
- , Japanese classical pianist
- , Japanese video game composer
Acting
- , Japanese actor
- , Japanese actor and politician
- , Japanese actress
- , Japanese voice actress
- , Japanese actress and gravure model
- , Japanese voice actor
- , Japanese voice actor and actor
- , Japanese actress and voice actress
- , Japanese actor
- , Japanese voice actor
- , Japanese actor and model
- Nakamura Kankurō VI (born 1981), Japanese kabuki actor
- Nakamura Kanzaburō, Kabuki stage name
- Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII (1955–2012), Japanese kabuki actor
- , Japanese actor
- , Japanese actress
- , Japanese actor and singer
- , Japanese actor
- , Japanese actor
- Saemi Nakamura, American actress
- Nakamura Shichinosuke II (born 1983), Japanese kabuki actor
- , Japanese gravure idol and actress
- , Japanese voice actor and singer
- , Japanese voice actor
- Suzy Nakamura, American actress
- , Japanese voice actor
- , Japanese actress
- , Japanese actor and opera singer
- , Japanese actor
- , Japanese actor
- , Japanese kabuki actor
- Nakamura Utaemon I (1714–1791), Japanese actor
- Nakamura Utaemon II (1752–1798), Japanese actor
- Nakamura Utaemon III (1778–1838), Japanese actor
- Nakamura Utaemon IV (1798–1852), Japanese actor
- Nakamura Utaemon V (1865–1940), Japanese actor
- Nakamura Utaemon VI (1917–2001), Japanese actor
- , Japanese actor and singer, member of Japanese talent group D-BOYS
- , Japanese voice actor
- , Japanese actress
- , Japanese actress and singer
- , Japanese actress
Visual arts
- , Japanese manga artist
- Félix Nakamura (1940–2000), Peruvian animator
- , Japanese painter
- , Japanese painter
- , Japanese photographer
- , Japanese manga artist
- , Japanese artist
- , Japanese photographer
- Kazuo Nakamura (1926–2002), Japanese-Canadian painter and sculptor
- , Japanese anime director
- , Japanese photographer
- , Japanese artist and poet
- , Japanese painter
- , Japanese painter and sculptor
- , Japanese film director
- , Japanese photographer
- Robert A. Nakamura (born 1937), American documentary filmmaker
- , Japanese anime director
- , Japanese manga artist
- , Japanese animator and anime director
- , Japanese yōga painter
- , Japanese film director and screenwriter
- , Japanese manga artist
- , Japanese animator
Politics and military
- , Japanese politician
- , Japanese politician
- , Japanese politician
- Judith Nakamura (born 1960), American judge
- , Japanese politician
- , Japanese general
- , Japanese general
- , former President of Palau
- , Imperial Japanese Army general
- , Japanese politician
- , Japanese businessman and politician
- , Japanese politician
- , Japanese politician
- , Japanese bureaucrat, entrepreneur and politician
- , Japanese general
- Itaru Nakamura (born 1963), Japanese police bureaucrat
Other
- Nakamura (bandit) or, Japanese bandit and alleged slayer of Akechi Mitsuhide
- Craig H. Nakamura (born 1956), American jurist
- Eric Nakamura, American magazine publisher
- , Japanese dissident and convicted murderer
- Ichiro Nakamura (died 1999), Japanese religious leader
- Nakamura Ichiroemon, 17th-century Japanese swordsman
- , Japanese video game artist
- , Japanese geisha
- , Japanese video game designer
- , Japanese celebrity chef
- , Japanese businessman
- , Japanese samurai, philosopher and educator
- , Japanese businessman
- , Japanese announcer
- , Japanese educator and Scouting leader
- , Japanese serial killer
- , Japanese car designer
- , Japanese video game designer
- , Japanese soldier and World War II holdout
- William K. Nakamura (1922–1944), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
- , Japanese shoot wrestler
- , Japanese web designer
Fictional characters
- Aika Nakamura, a character in the video game Persona 4
- Asako Nakamura, a character in the manga series Ushio and Tora
- Ethan Nakamura, a character in the novel series Percy Jackson and The Olympians
- Hajime Nakamura, a character in the tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Ryuki
- Hiro Nakamura, a character in the American television series Heroes
- Jay Nakamura, Superman (Jon Kent)'s boyfriend in DC Comics
- Kaito Nakamura, a character in the American television series Heroes
- Kimiko Nakamura, a character in the American television series Heroes
- , a character in the manga series Assassination Classroom
- Okuto Nakamura, a character in the manga series Go For It, Nakamura!
- Yuri Nakamura, a character in the anime series Angel Beats!
- Vice Admiral Nakamura, a character in the television series
- Nakamura, a character in the manga series Kodomo no Jikan
- Sawa Nakamura, a character in the manga ""
- Suzy Nakamura, a character in the graphic novel American Born Chinese
- Shiori Nakamura, a character in the video game Yo-kai Watch
See also
References
- https://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/names_files.html 1990 Census Name Files
- 明治安田生命 全国同姓調査 [''Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company - National same family name investigation'']]. Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company. 2008-09-24. 2019-03-09.