Matsumoto (surname)

Matsumoto (松本, "base of the pine tree") is the 16th most common Japanese surname.

Notable people with the surname include:

• Hajime Matsumoto (born 1974), activist
• Hideto Matsumoto (1964–1998), musician better known by his stage name hide
• Hideya Matsumoto, mathematician
• Hiroyo Matsumoto (born 1985), professional wrestler
• Hitoshi Matsumoto (born 1963), comedian
• Ikuo Matsumoto (born 1941), footballer
• Izumi Matsumoto (born 1958), manga author
• Jirō Matsumoto (born 1970), manga author
• Jun Matsumoto (born 1983), singer and actor
• Kaoru Matsumoto (born 1960), professional wrestler
• Katsuji Matsumoto (1904–1986), illustrator and manga author
• Matsumoto Kōshirō, stage name for a lineage of kabuki actors
  • Matsumoto Kōshirō VII (1870–1949), tachiyaku kabuki actor from the Meiji Period through the 1940s
  • Matsumoto Kōshirō IX (born 1942), tachiyaku kabuki actor currently performing
• Leiji Matsumoto (born 1938), manga author
• Miyako Matsumoto (born 1985), actress and professional wrestler
• Namika Matsumoto (born 1992), Japanese weightlifter
• Rica Matsumoto (born 1968), voice actor and singer
• Rie Matsumoto (born 1985), anime director
• Roy Matsumoto (1914–2014), a United States Army soldier and inductee of the U.S. Army Rangers Hall Of Fame and the Military Intelligence Corps Hall of Fame
• Seichō Matsumoto (1909–1992), author
• Tak Matsumoto (born 1961), musician and guitarist
• Takashi Matsumoto (lyricist) (born 1949), lyricist and former musician
• Takashi Matsumoto (poet) (1906–1956), writer
• Tortoise Matsumoto (born 1966), singer
• Toshio Matsumoto (born 1932), avant garde film director
• Yasunori Matsumoto (born 1960), voice actor
• Yukihiro Matsumoto (born 1965), programmer, author and creator of Ruby programming language
• Shoko Asahara (born 1955), a.k.a. Chizuo Matsumoto, founder of the Aum Shinrikyo religion and convicted murderer

See also

• Matsumoto (disambiguation)