Kumiko (くみこ, クミコ) is a feminine
Japanese given name.
Possible writings
Kumiko can be written using different
kanji and can mean:
*久美子, "forever, beauty, child"
*空見子, "sky, see, child"
*公美子, "public, beauty, child"
*來未子, "come, not, child"
*功美子, "success, beauty child"
The name can also be written in
hiragana or
katakana.
People
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Kumiko Asō (久美子), a Japanese actress
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Kumiko Akiyoshi (久美子), a Japanese actress
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Kumiko Ogura (久美子), a Japanese female badminton player
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Kumiko Nakano
Nakano Kumiko (中野公美子, born March 3, 1977 in Osaka, Japan) is an actress who debuted as a Japanese idol with the girl band Osaka Performance Doll from 1993 to 1997.
Television
*星の金貨 (''Hoshi no kinka'')
*竜馬におまかせ!
*B ...
(公美子), a Japanese actress
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Kumiko Goto (久美子), a Japanese model, actress and wife of
Jean Alesi
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Kumiko Takeda (久美子), a Japanese actress and model
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Kumiko Hayashi (久美子), a Japanese politician
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Kumiko Aihara
is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party and a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Hokkaidō and law graduate of Hokkai Gakuen University, she was elected for the first ...
(久美子), a Japanese politician
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Kumiko Nishihara (久美子, born 1965), a
Japanese voice actress
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Kumiko Watanabe (久美子, born 1965), a Japanese actress and voice actress
*Kumiko Nakane (中根久美子), a Japanese voice actress
*, Japanese animator and character designer
*, Japanese singer
*, Japanese writer
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Kumiko Okamoto (久美子), a Japanese retired female tennis player
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Kumiko Sato (久美子), a Japanese figure skating coach
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Kumiko Ikeda
is a Japanese long jumper.
She won bronze medals at the 2000 World Junior Championships and the 2001 Summer Universiade, and finished eleventh at the 2001 World Championships. On the regional level she won a bronze medal at the 2005 Asian Cha ...
(久美子), a Japanese long jumper
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Kumiko Koiwai
is a Japanese former competitive figure skater. She is the 1993 World Junior champion, 1992 NHK Trophy silver medalist, 1997 Winter Universiade champion, and a three-time Japan national bronze medalist.
Skating career
Koiwai finished 8th a ...
(久美子), a former Japanese figure skater
*, Japanese cross-country skier
Fictional characters
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Kumiko (character), a character portrayed by Tamlyn Tomita in ''
The Karate Kid Part II'' (1986) and ''
Cobra Kai'' (2021)
*Kumiko Yamaguchi (久美子), the main character in the manga, anime, and television drama series ''
Gokusen''
*Kumiko Okada (久美子), a character in Haruki Murakami's novel ''
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle''
*Kumiko Ōmae (久美子), the protagonist of the novel series ''
Sound! Euphonium''
*Kumiko Tanaka?, the little daughter of Mr. Tanaka in Memoirs of a Geisha
*Kumiko, title character in the 2014 American drama film ''
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter''
*Kumiko "The Bullet", pilot of one of the playable machines in ''
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity''
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Kumiko Albertson
The American animated television series ''The Simpsons'' contains a wide range of minor and supporting characters like co-workers, teachers, students, family friends, extended relatives, townspeople, local celebrities, and even animals. The write ...
, a recurring character in ''The Simpsons''
See also
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4454 Kumiko, main-belt Asteroid
* Kumikō, a game of
kōdō
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kumiko, the pieces of lattice work in
shoji
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Japanese feminine given names