Mamoru (まもる, マモル) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
*
Marcus Mamoru Toji (born 1984), American actor
*, Japanese composer
*, Japanese composer best known for his work with animator Hayao Miyazaki
*, anime director
*, Japanese shogi player
*, Japanese film director
*, Japanese inventor, music composer, and Chief Executive Officer of VitaCraft and VitaCraft Japan
*, Olympics marksmen
*, Japanese anime director
*, Japanese boxer
*, Japanese middle-distance runner
*, Japanese actor and voice actor
*, Japanese astronaut
*, Japanese animator and character designer
*, Japanese film director
*, Japanese impostor
*
Mamoru Sato
Mamoru Sato is an American modernist sculptor. He was born in El Paso, Texas in 1937. He initially majored in aeronautical engineering but switched to art, receiving a BA in fine art in 1963 and an MFA in sculpture in 1965, both from the Univer ...
(born 1937), American modernist sculptor
*, Imperial Japanese Navy officer
*, Japanese Minister of Foreign affairs at the end of World War II
*, Japanese illustrator/manga artist
*, Japanese ice hockey player
*, Japanese criminal/murderer
*, Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor
*, Japanese architect
*, Japanese mixed martial artist
Fictional characters
*, a character in ''
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
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'' visual novel and anime series
*, a character in the ''Sailor Moon'' series
*, a character in the ''
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*, a character in ''
From the New World''
*, a character in ''Forbidden Siren''
*, a character in the ''
Captain Tsubasa'' series
*, a character in ''
Kage Kara Mamoru!''
*
Mamoru Kodai in Space Battleship Yamato
*, a character in the ''Fighting Spirit'' (はじめの一歩, ''Hajime no Ippo'') series
*, a character in ''
Mamoru-kun ni Megami no Shukufuku wo!''
* Mamoru-kun, the
anthropomorphic canine mascot for
Fukuoka Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Fukuoka Prefecture has a population of 5,109,323 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,986 Square kilometre, km2 (1,925 sq mi). Fukuoka Prefecture borders S ...
's disaster prevention, created by
CyberConnect2
is a Japanese video game development studio mostly known for its work on the ''.hack'' series, along with a series of fighting games based on the ''Naruto'' franchise. They are also known for creating the ''Little Tail Bronx'' series (e.g. '' ...
. Mamoru-kun was originally planned to be the main character of ''Tail Concerto II'', but due to the poor sales of
the last game, it never came to fruition.
See also
*''
Kage Kara Mamoru!'', series of light novels written by Achi Taro
*''
Mamoru-kun ni Megami no Shukufuku o!'', a light novel series by Hiroki Iwata
*
4613 Mamoru, a main-belt asteroid
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Japanese masculine given names