Nakamura (family name)
Nakamura is a Japanese family name .
Origin and meaning
Nakamura is the eighth most common family name in Japan in the spelling 中 Dorf (often interpreted as: in the middle of village, village center; actually: central settlement, main village) . The ENAMDICT name dictionary knows 12 other spellings, of which 仲 村 in particular occurs quite frequently.
Name bearer
A.
- Aiko Nakamura (* 1983), Japanese tennis player
- Akihiko Nakamura (* 1990), Japanese decathlete
- Akimasa Nakamura (* 1961), Japanese astronomer
- Akitoshi Nakamura (* 1958), pseudonym of the Japanese writer Yūichi Seirai
- Anju Nakamura (* 2000), Japanese Nordic combined athlete
- Asumiko Nakamura , Japanese manga artist
- Atsuo Nakamura (* 1940), Japanese actor and politician
- Atsutaka Nakamura (* 1990), Japanese football player
- Aya Nakamura (* 1995), French-Malian RnB singer
D.
- Daishin Nakamura (born 1966), Japanese baseball player
- Nakamura Daizaburō (1898–1947), Japanese painter
E.
- Eiichi Nakamura (chemist) (* 1951), Japanese chemist
- Eiichi Nakamura (hockey player) (1909-1945), Japanese field hockey player
F.
- Fumiaki Nakamura (* 1981), Japanese football player
- Fuminori Nakamura (* 1977), Japanese writer
- Nakamura Fusetsu (1866–1943), Japanese painter
G
- Nakamura Gakuryō (1890–1969), Japanese painter
- Ganjirō Nakamura (1902-1983), Japanese film actor
- Gō Nakamura (* 1986), Japanese football player
H
- Nakamura Hajime (1912–1999), Japanese Buddhist scholar and philosopher
- Hachidai Nakamura (1931–1992), Japanese jazz pianist and songwriter
- Hayato Nakamura (* 1991), Japanese football player
- Hideyuki Nakamura (* 1984), Japanese football player
- Hikaru Nakamura (Mangaka) (* 1984), Japanese manga artist
- Hikaru Nakamura (* 1987), American chess player
- Hirohito Nakamura (* 1974), Japanese football player
- Hiroko Nakamura (1944–2016), Japanese classical pianist
- Hitoshi Nakamura (born 1949), Japanese ice hockey player
- Hōdō Nakamura (* 1950), Japanese politician
- Hokuto Nakamura (* 1985), Japanese football player
- Hotaka Nakamura (born 1997), Japanese football player
I.
- Izumi Nakamura (* 1938), Japanese fisheries biologist
J
- Jakuemon Nakamura IV († 2012), Japanese actor
- Jirō Nakamura (* 2003), Japanese football player
K
- Kaede Nakamura (* 1991), Japanese soccer player
- Kazuhiro Nakamura (martial artist) (* 1979), Japanese martial artist
- Kazuhiro Nakamura (ski jumper) (* 1980), Japanese ski jumper
- Kazumi Nakamura (* 1971), Japanese volleyball player
- Kazuyoshi Nakamura (* 1955), Japanese football player
- Nakamura Keiu (1832-1891), Japanese educator and translator
- Kengo Nakamura (musician) (* 1965), Japanese jazz musician
- Kengo Nakamura (soccer player) (* 1980), Japanese soccer player
- Nakamura Ken'ichi (1895–1967), Japanese painter
- Keita Nakamura (* 1993), Japanese soccer player
- Keito Nakamura (* 2000), Japanese soccer player
- Kenji Nakamura (* 1964), Japanese sailor
- Nakamura Kenkichi (1889–1934), Japanese poet
- Kenzo Nakamura (* 1973), Japanese judoka
- Nakamura Kichiemon I (1886–1954), Kabuki actor
- Kinjiro Nakamura (* 1975), Japanese table tennis player
- Kiyoshi Nakamura (middle distance runner) (1913–1985), Japanese athlete
- Kiyoshi Nakamura (soccer player) (born 1971), Japanese soccer player
- Nakamura Kō (1920–2015), Japanese discus thrower
- Kōki Nakamura (* 1992), Japanese football player
- Kōsei Nakamura (* 1981), Japanese football player
- Kōsuke Nakamura (* 1995), Japanese football player
- Nakamura Kōtarō (1881–1947), Japanese general and minister
- Kunihiko Nakamura (* 1939), Japanese basketball player
- Kuniwo Nakamura (* 1943), President of Palau
- Nakamura Kusatao (1901–1983), Japanese writer and poet
- Kyōga Nakamura (* 1996), Japanese football player
M.
- Mai Nakamura (* 1979), Japanese swimmer
- Manabu Nakamura (* 1977), Japanese football player
- Nakamura Mariko , Japanese mangaka
- Masato Nakamura (* 1958), Japanese musician
- Masaya Nakamura (1925-2017), Japanese entrepreneur
- Michael Nakamura (born 1976), Australian baseball player
- Misato Nakamura (* 1989), Japanese judoka
- Nakamura Mitsuo (1911–1988), Japanese writer and literary critic
- Mizuki Nakamura (* 1996), Japanese sprinter
- Nakamura Murao (1886–1949), Japanese literary theorist and critic
N
- Naoki Nakamura (* 1996), Japanese ski jumper
- Naoshi Nakamura (* 1979), Japanese football player
- Noboru Nakamura (1913–1981), Japanese director and screenwriter
- Nobuo Nakamura (1908–1991), Japanese actor
- Norihiro Nakamura (* 1973), Japanese baseball player
P
- Peter Michiaki Nakamura (* 1962), Japanese clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Nagasaki
R.
- Reikichi Nakamura (* 1916), Japanese speed skater
- Reiko Nakamura (* 1982), Japanese swimmer
- Ryō Nakamura (* 1996), Japanese football player
- Ryōta Nakamura (* 1991), Japanese football player
- Ryūtarō Nakamura († 2013), Japanese cartoon film director
S.
- Seiichi Nakamura (* 1947), Japanese jazz musician
- Shigekazu Nakamura (* 1958), Japanese football player
- Shigenobu Nakamura (* 1950), Japanese composer
- Shin Nakamura (* 1974), Japanese football player
- Nakamura Shin'ichirō (1918-1997), Japanese writer
- Shinsuke Nakamura (* 1980), Japanese wrestler
- Shinya Nakamura (* 1973), Japanese go player
- Shogo Nakamura (* 1992), Japanese long-distance runner
- Shuji Nakamura (* 1954), Japanese physicist
- Shun Nakamura (* 1994), Japanese football player
- Shunsuke Nakamura (* 1978), Japanese football player
- Shunta Nakamura (* 1999), Japanese soccer player
- Shūsei Nakamura († 2014), Japanese voice actor
- Sumire Nakamura (* 2009), Japanese Go player
- Suzy Nakamura (* 1973), American actress
T
- Tadashi Nakamura (martial artist) (* 1942), Japanese martial artist
- Tadashi Nakamura (biathlete) (born 1956), Japanese biathlete
- Tadashi Nakamura (soccer player) (born 1971), Japanese soccer player
- Taichi Nakamura (* 1993), Japanese football player
- Taisuke Nakamura (* 1989), Japanese football player
- Nakamura Taizaburō (1912-2003), Japanese martial artist
- Takumi Nakamura (* 2001), Japanese soccer player
- Takuya Nakamura (* 1984), Japanese ice hockey player
- Tamotsu Nakamura (* 1934), Japanese alpinist
- Taniko Nakamura (* 1943), Japanese gymnast
- Nakamura Tarō (1918-2011), Japanese politician
- Tatsuya Nakamura (musician, 1945) (* 1945), Japanese jazz drummer and composer
- Tatsuya Nakamura (musician, 1965) (born 1965), Japanese fusion drummer and actor
- Nakamura Teii (1900–1982), Japanese painter
- Nakamura Teijo (1900–1988), Japanese haiku poet
- Tempu Nakamura (1876–1968), Japanese martial artist and yoga teacher (Shin-Shin-Toitsu-Do)
- Nakamura Teruo (1919–1979), Japanese soldier
- Tetsuaki Nakamura (* 1948), Japanese boxer
- Tohru Nakamura (* 1983), German chef
- Tokihiro Nakamura (* 1960), Japanese politician
- Torakichi Nakamura (1915-2008), Japanese golfer
- Toshiharu Nakamura (* 1935), Japanese field hockey player
- Nakamura Toshimaru , Japanese musician
- Tōya Nakamura (* 2000), Japanese football player
- Tsuko Nakamura (* 1943), Japanese astronomer
- Nakamura Tsune (1887-1924), Japanese painter of the yoga direction
Y
- Yasuo Nakamura (* 1971), Japanese bobsleigh athlete
- Yasushi Nakamura (* 1982), Japanese jazz musician (double bass)
- Yoshiki Nakamura (* 1969?), Japanese mangaka
- Yoshio Nakamura (* 1970), Japanese judoka
- Yoshirō Nakamura (* 1979), Japanese football player
- Yugo Nakamura (* 1970), Japanese web designer
- Yūichi Nakamura (Seiyū) (* 1980), Japanese voice actor
- Yūichi Nakamura (actor) (* 1987), Japanese actor
- Yūki Nakamura (* 1987), Japanese football player
- Yukimasa Nakamura (* 1972), Japanese judoka
- Yurika Nakamura (* 1986), Japanese athlete
- Yūsuke Nakamura (* 1986), Japanese football player
- Yuto Nakamura (soccer player) (* 1987), Japanese-Hong Kong soccer player
- Yūto Nakamura (Nordic combined) (* 1997), Japanese Nordic skier
- Yūya Nakamura (soccer player, 1986) (born 1986), Japanese soccer player
- Yūya Nakamura (soccer player, 1987) (born 1987), Japanese soccer player
- Yuzo Nakamura (* 1942), Japanese volleyball player