Nomura

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

Notable people with the surname include:

• Don Nomura (born 1957), Japanese-American baseball agent
• Katsuhiro Nomura (野村 勝人), Japanese voice actor, including in the manga series Living for the Day After Tomorrow
• Katsunori Nomura (野村 克則, born 1973), Japanese baseball player and coach
• Katsuya Nomura (野村 克也, 1935–2020), Japanese baseball player and manager
• Ken Nomura (野村 謙, born 1965), Japanese D1 Grand Prix Driver
• Kenji Nomura (乃村 健次, born 1970), Japanese voice actor
• Kenjiro Nomura (disambiguation), multiple people
• Kichisaburō Nomura (野村 吉三郎, 1877–1964), Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and the ambassador to the United States until the attack on Pearl Harbor
• Kodō Nomura (野村 胡堂, 1882–1963), pen-name of Japanese writer Osakazu Nomura, a novelist and music critic in Showa period Japan
• Kunichi Nomura (野村 訓市, born 1974), Japanese writer, actor, radio personality, book editor, interior designer, creative director, and DJ
• Mami Nomura (野村 真美, born 1964), Japanese actress
• Mary Nomura (born 1925), Japanese-American singer, "the songbird of Manzanar"
• Masayasu Nomura (野村 眞康, 1927–2011), Japanese-American biochemist who made seminal contributions in the field of RNA biology
• Mayuka Nomura (野村 真悠華, born 1989), Japanese voice actress
• Michiko Nomura (野村 道子, born 1938), Japanese voice actress
• Misu Nomura (野村 ミス, 1896–1979), Japanese politician
• Mizuki Nomura (野村 美月), Japanese light novelist
• Mutsuhiko Nomura (野村 六彦, born 1940), Japanese footballer and manager
• Naokuni Nomura (野村 直邦, 1885–1973), Japanese admiral and naval attache to Nazi Germany
• Ryutaro Nomura (野村 龍太郎, 1859–1943), Japanese businessman
• Satoru Nomura (野村 悟, born 1946), Japanese Yakuza leader
• Sayo Nomura (野村 沙世, born 1989), Japanese long-distance runner
• Shin Nomura (野村 伸, born 1955), Japanese manga artist
• Shūsuke Nomura (野村 秋介, 1935–1993), Japanese activist
• Tadahiro Nomura (野村 忠宏, born 1974), Japanese Judo competitor
• Takahito Nomura (野村 貴仁, born 1969), Japanese baseball player
• Takashi Nomura (野村 孝, 1927–2015), Japanese film director
• Tatsuji Nomura (野村 達次, 1922–2013), Japanese scientist; pioneer in the development of laboratory animals for biomedical researches
• Tetsuya Nomura (野村 哲也, born 1970), Japanese game and character designer; works at Square Enix
• Tokushichi Nomura II (野村 徳七 二代, 1878–1945), Japanese businessman; founder of the Nomura zaibatsu
• Tomohiro Nomura (野村 智宏, born 1975), Japanese high jumper
• Toshiro Nomura (野村 敏郎, born 1954), Japanese astronomer
• Toyokazu Nomura (野村 豊和, born 1949), Japanese judoka
• Yasunori Nomura (野村 泰紀, born 1974), Japanese theoretical physicist
• Yasushi Nomura (野村 靖, 1842–1909), Japanese politician and cabinet minister
• Yoshio Nomura (野村 義男, born 1964), Japanese idol, musician and actor
• Yoshitarō Nomura (野村 芳太郎, 1919–2005), Japanese film director
• Yuka Nomura (野村 佑香, born 1984), Japanese actress
• Inoue Masaru (bureaucrat) (井上 勝, 1843–1910), Japanese bureaucrat; "Father of the Japanese Railways"; briefly bore the name Yakichi Nomura (野村弥吉)