Nomura

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

Notable people with the surname include:

• , Japanese volleyball player
• , Japanese-American baseball agent
• , Japanese voice actor, including in the manga series Living for the Day After Tomorrow
• , Japanese baseball player and coach
• , Japanese baseball player and manager
• , Japanese D1 Grand Prix Driver
• , Japanese voice actor
• Kenjiro Nomura (disambiguation), multiple people
• , Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and the ambassador to the United States until the attack on Pearl Harbor
• , pen-name of Japanese writer Osakazu Nomura, a novelist and music critic in Showa period Japan
• , Japanese writer, actor, radio personality, book editor, interior designer, creative director, and DJ
• , Japanese actress
• Mary Nomura (born 1925), Japanese-American singer, "the songbird of Manzanar"
• , Japanese-American biochemist who made seminal contributions in the field of RNA biology
• , Japanese voice actress
• , Japanese voice actress
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese light novelist
• , Japanese footballer and manager
• , Japanese admiral and naval attache to Nazi Germany
• , Japanese businessman
• , Japanese Yakuza leader
• , Japanese long-distance runner
• , Japanese manga artist
• , Japanese activist
• , Japanese Judo competitor
• , Japanese baseball player
• , Japanese film director
• , Japanese scientist; pioneer in the development of laboratory animals for biomedical researches
• , Japanese game and character designer; works at Square Enix
• , Japanese businessman; founder of the Nomura zaibatsu
• , Japanese high jumper
• , Japanese astronomer
• , Japanese judoka
• , Japanese theoretical physicist
• , Japanese politician and cabinet minister
• , Japanese idol, musician and actor
• , Japanese film director
• , Japanese businessman and proprietor of the Samurai Shokai company
• , Japanese actress
• , Japanese bureaucrat; "Father of the Japanese Railways"; briefly bore the name

Fictional characters

• , a character from the manga and anime series Great Teacher Onizuka

See also

• Nomura Holdings
• Nomura Securities
• Nomura, Ehime, former town in Ehime Prefecture, Japan
• Nomura Research Institute
• Nomura's jellyfish
• Namoura, another name for the pastry basbousa
• Namora, a character from Marvel Comics