Yamaguchi (surname)
Yamaguchi (山口, "mountain entrance/gateway") is the 15th most common Japanese surname.
People
People bearing the surname Yamaguchi include:
- Adam Yamaguchi, an American television correspondent and producer at Current TV
- Billy Yamaguchi, a famed Feng Shui Hairstylist and creator of hair product line
- Eri Yamaguchi (born 1973), a Japanese long-distance runner
- Erina Yamaguchi, a Japanese gravure idol
- Gōgen Yamaguchi (1909–1989), a Japanese karateka
- Gorō Yamaguchi (1933–1999), a world famous Japanese shakuhachi musician
- Hideko Yamaguchi, a plaintiff foster mother in Sweden v. Yamaguchi, a famous international family law trial
- Hitomi Yamaguchi (1923–1995), a popular Japanese novelist and essayist
- Jun Yamaguchi (born 1967), a Japanese composer
- Kappei Yamaguchi, a Japanese voice actor
- Kayo Yamaguchi (1899–1984), a Japanese painter
- Keiji Yamaguchi, a creature technical director in Industrial Light & Magic
- Koichi Yamaguchi, a bicycle framebuilder
- Kosuke Yamaguchi, an underwater hockey player/finswimmer
- Kristi Yamaguchi, a Japanese American figure skater
- Makoto Yamaguchi, an origami artist
- Masakatsu Yamaguchi, a plaintiff foster father in Sweden v. Yamaguchi, a famous international family law trial
- Mayumi Yamaguchi (born 1975), a Japanese voice actor
- Momoe Yamaguchi (born 1959), a former Japanese pop singer, actress and idol
- Motohiro Yamaguchi (born 1969), a Japanese football midfielder
- Noboru Yamaguchi (1901–1942), the second kumicho, or Godfather, of the Yamaguchi-gumi
- Otoya Yamaguchi (1943–1960), a Japanese ultranationalist best known for his assassination of Inejiro Asanuma
- Rico Yamaguchi, stage name for Japanese singer and AV actress Rina Nakanishi
- Roy Yamaguchi, a Japanese-American chef
- Ryōta Yamaguchi (born 1969), a Japanese anime screenwriter
- Seigo Yamaguchi (1924–1996), a Japanese aikido teacher
- Shigehiro Yamaguchi, a Japanese actor
- Shinji Yamaguchi, a Japanese manga artist
- Takayuki Yamaguchi, a Japanese voice actor
- Tamon Yamaguchi (1892–1942), a Japanese Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy
- Tomoko Yamaguchi (born 1964), a Japanese actress and singer
- Taro Yamaguchi (born 1970), a Japanese voice actor
- Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916–2010), a Japanese national who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during the Second World War
- Wally Yamaguchi, a Japanese professional wrestling personality, better known in the U.S. as Yamaguchi-San, the manager of Kai En Tai in World Wrestling Entertainment
- Yoshiko Ōtaka, born and aka Yoshiko Yamaguchi, an actress well-known as Lǐ Xiānglán (李香蘭, Ri Kōran?) during the World War II
- Yuki Yamaguchi, a Japanese sprinter
- Yuriko Yamaguchi (born 1965), a Japanese voice actor
- Yuriko Yamaguchi (born 1948), a Japanese-American sculptor
- Yutaka Yamaguchi (born 1940), a Japanese businessman and economist
Fictional characters
See also