Miyamoto
For the crater on Mars, see Miyamoto (crater).
Miyamoto (宮本 "base of the shrine") is a common Japanese surname, but can also be a Japanese given name.
People
- Fumiaki Miyamoto, oboist
- Karin Miyamoto, idol singer (Juice=Juice)
- Kazushi Miyamoto, professional wrestler
- Kenji Miyamoto, figure skater
- Kenji Miyamoto, politician
- Masafumi Miyamoto, founder of video game company Square (now Square Enix)
- Masao Miyamoto, psychiatrist, former Japanese civil servant, critic of the Japanese bureaucratic system
- Miyamoto Musashi, historical swordsman and Rōnin
- Shigeru Miyamoto, video game designer for Nintendo
- Shunichi Miyamoto, musician and voice actor
- Nobuko Miyamoto, actress
- Teru Miyamoto, author, recipient of the Akutagawa Prize
- Tsuneyasu Miyamoto, soccer player, FC Red Bull Salzburg & Japan
- Yuriko Miyamoto, author
Fictional characters
- Miyamoto Usagi, from the comic "Usagi Yojimbo"
- Carlos Miyamoto, a playable character in Final Fight 2
Locations
- Miyamoto is also the name of a 16th-century village (in present-day Mimasaka, Okayama) considered the birthplace of Miyamoto Musashi