Nomura
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Nomura (written: 野村 "field village" or 埜村 "wilderness village") is a Japanese surname.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Asuka Nomura, Japanese volleyball player
- Don Nomura, Japanese-American baseball agent
- , Japanese voice actor, including in the manga series Living for the Day After Tomorrow
- Katsunori Nomura, Japanese baseball player and coach
- Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball player and manager
- Ken Nomura, Japanese D1 Grand Prix Driver
- Kenji Nomura, Japanese voice actor
- Kenjiro Nomura (disambiguation), multiple people
- Kichisaburō Nomura, Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and the ambassador to the United States until the attack on Pearl Harbor
- Kodō Nomura, pen-name of Japanese writer Osakazu Nomura, a novelist and music critic in Showa period Japan
- Kunichi Nomura, Japanese writer, actor, radio personality, book editor, interior designer, creative director, and DJ
- Mami Nomura, Japanese actress
- Mary Nomura (born 1925), Japanese-American singer, "the songbird of Manzanar"
- Masayasu Nomura, Japanese-American biochemist who made seminal contributions in the field of RNA biology
- Mayuka Nomura, Japanese voice actress
- Michiko Nomura, Japanese voice actress
- Misu Nomura, Japanese politician
- Mizuki Nomura, Japanese light novelist
- Mutsuhiko Nomura, Japanese footballer and manager
- Naokuni Nomura, Japanese admiral and naval attache to Nazi Germany
- Ryutaro Nomura, Japanese businessman
- Satoru Nomura, Japanese Yakuza leader
- Sayo Nomura, Japanese long-distance runner
- Shin Nomura, Japanese manga artist
- Shūsuke Nomura, Japanese activist
- Tadahiro Nomura, Japanese Judo competitor
- Takahito Nomura, Japanese baseball player
- Takashi Nomura, Japanese film director
- Tatsuji Nomura, Japanese scientist; pioneer in the development of laboratory animals for biomedical researches
- Tetsuya Nomura, Japanese game and character designer; works at Square Enix
- Tokushichi Nomura II, Japanese businessman; founder of the Nomura zaibatsu
- Tomohiro Nomura, Japanese high jumper
- Toshiro Nomura, Japanese astronomer
- Toyokazu Nomura, Japanese judoka
- Yasunori Nomura, Japanese theoretical physicist
- Yasushi Nomura, Japanese politician and cabinet minister
- Yoshio Nomura, Japanese idol, musician and actor
- Yoshitarō Nomura, Japanese film director
- Yozo Nomura, Japanese businessman and proprietor of the Samurai Shokai company
- Yuka Nomura, Japanese actress
- Inoue Masaru (bureaucrat), Japanese bureaucrat; "Father of the Japanese Railways"; briefly bore the name Yakichi Nomura
Fictional characters
- Tomoko Nomura, a character from the manga and anime series Great Teacher Onizuka
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