Nomura

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

Notable people with the surname include:

• Don Nomura (born 1957), Japanese-American baseball agent
• Katsuhiro Nomura, Japanese voice actor, including in the manga series Living for the Day After Tomorrow
• Katsunori Nomura (born 1973), Japanese baseball player and coach
• Katsuya Nomura (born 1935), Japanese baseball player and manager
• Ken Nomura (born 1965), Japanese D1 Grand Prix Driver
• Kenji Nomura (born 1970), Japanese voice actor
• Kenjiro Nomura (born 1966), Japanese former baseball player of the Hiroshima Carp
• Kenjiro Nomura (artist) (1896–1956), Japanese-American painter
• Kichisaburō Nomura (1877–1964), Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and the ambassador to the United States until the attack on Pearl Harbor
• Kodō Nomura (1882–1963), pen-name of Japarese writer Osakazu Nomura, a novelist and music critic in Showa period Japan
• Mami Nomura (born 1964), Japanese actress
• Michiko Nomura (born 1938), Japanese voice actress
• Naokuni Nomura (1885–1973), Japanese admiral and naval attache to Nazi Germany
• Takahito Nomura (born 1969), Japanese baseball player
• Tadahiro Nomura (born 1974), Japanese Judo competitor
• Tatsuji Nomura (1922–2013), Japanese scientist; pioneer in the development of laboratory animals for biomedical researches
• Ted Nomura, comic book writer and artist; creator of Luftwaffe 1946 for Antarctic Press
• Tetsuya Nomura (born 1970), Japanese game and character designer; works at Square Enix
• Tokushichi Nomura II (1878–1945), Japanese businessman; founder of the Nomura zaibatsu
• Toshiro Nomura (born 1954), Japanese astronomer
• Toyokazu Nomura (born 1949), Japanese judoka
• Yasunori Nomura, Japanese theoretical physicist
• Nomura Yasushi, (1842–1909), Japanese politician and cabinet minister
• Yoshitaro Nomura (1919–2005), Japanese film director
• Yuka Nomura (born 1984), Japanese actress
• Inoue Masaru (bureaucrat) (1843–1910), Japanese bureaucrat; "Father of the Japanese Railways"; briefly bore the name Nomura Yakichi

See also

• Nomura Holdings, part of the Nomura Group (also including Nomura Securities Co.)
• Nomura, Ehime, former town in Ehime Prefecture, Japan
• Nomura Research Institute
• Nomura's jellyfish