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 the 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