Ninomiya (surname) explained

Ninomiya (written: 二宮 or 二ノ宮 lit. "second shrine") is a Japanese family name.

Notable people

General

• Ayano Ninomiya, award-winning Japanese violinist
• Chūhachi Ninomiya, Japanese inventor and aviation pioneer
• Kazunari Ninomiya, member of the band Arashi and an actor in the 2006 film Letters from Iwo Jima
• Kent Ninomiya, first male Asian American to be a primary news anchor of a US television station
• Ninomiya Sontoku (born Ninomiya Kinjirō), prominent 19th-century Japanese agricultural leader, philosopher, moralist and economist, whose statues of him reading while walking are commonly seen near Japanese schools
• Tei Ninomiya, first Asian student at Smith College, later an administrator for YWCA in Japan
• Tomoko Ninomiya, Japanese manga artist

Athletics

• Hiroshi Ninomiya (born in 1937), Japanese football player and manager
• Hiroshi Ninomiya (born in 1969), Japanese football player
• Hirokazu Ninomiya, Japanese football player and manager
• Jōkō Ninomiya, Grandmaster, founder and director of Enshin Karate
• Kazuhiro Ninomiya, 1976 Olympic gold medalist and two-time world judo champion
• Kazuhiro Ninomiya (footballer), Japanese football player
• Makoto Ninomiya, Japanese tennis player
• Miho Ninomiya, Japanese judoka

Fictional characters

• Ninomiya, the main character in the light novel series Goshūshō-sama Ninomiya-kun
• Ninomiya-kun, of the fictional Sensei and Ninomiya in Minami-ke
• , a character in the anime series Gatchaman Crowds

Eponyms

• Nielsen-Ninomiya theorem, a no-go theorem in physics by Holger Bech Nielsen and Masao Ninomiya
• Hōtoku Ninomiya Shrine, Japanese Shinto shrine in Odawara, Kanagawa dedicated to Ninomiya Sontoku

See also

• Ninomiya (disambiguation), especially for place-related uses