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Yamaguchi (surname)

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Yamaguchi (山口, "mountain entrance/gateway") is the 15th most common Japanese surname.

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People

People bearing the surname Yamaguchi include:

  • Adam Yamaguchi, an American television correspondent and producer at Current TV
  • Akira Yamaguchi, a Japanese modern artist
  • 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
  • Hisashi Yamaguchi (1952–2010), Japanese sumo wrestler
  • Hitomi Yamaguchi (1923–1995), a popular Japanese novelist and essayist
  • Hotaru Yamaguchi (born 1990), a Japanese football midfielder
  • 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
  • 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
  • Masaya Yamaguchi (born 1970), American jazz guitarist and music writer born in Japan
  • 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
  • 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 (voice actor) (born 1965), a Japanese voice actor
  • Yuriko Yamaguchi (sculptor) (born 1948), a Japanese-American sculptor
  • Yutaka Yamaguchi (born 1940), a Japanese businessman and economist
  • Satyu Yamaguti (1894-1976), famous Japanese parasitologist

    • Fictional characters

  • Kumiko "Yankumi" Yamaguchi, a character of Yukie Nakama in Gokusen
  • Yamaguchi-sensei, a doctor in the manga/anime series Fighting Spirit
  • Tadashi Yamaguchi,a member of the Karasuno Volleyball team in Haikyuu!!

    • References

    Yamaguchi (surname) Wikipedia
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