Masumi is a unisex Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese hurdler * Masuumi Juma, a Japanese voice actor *

Masumi Aya is a Japanese hammer thrower. Her personal best throw is 67.26 metres, achieved in August 2006 in Toyama Toyama may refer to: Places and organizations * Toyama Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan located in the Hokuriku region on the main Honshu ...

, a Japanese hammer thrower * Masumi Fuchise, a Japanese racewalker * Masumi Hayashi (disambiguation) *

Masumi Itō (she also goes by the pseudonym ) is a Japanese singer and composer from Ibaraki prefecture in Japan. Itō has composed the soundtracks to many anime television shows and is part of the bands Oranges & Lemons and Heart of Air. Discography ...

, a Japanese singer and composer *

Masumi Kuwata Masumi Kuwata (桑田真澄 ''Kuwata Masumi'', born 1 April 1968 in Yao, Osaka, Japan) is a former Japanese right-handed pitcher who played the bulk of his career with the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball. He pitched 21 seasons wit ...

, a former Japanese right-handed pitcher *

Masumi Mishina (born 12 March 1982 in Kanagawa) is a Japanese softball player who won the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an inter ...

, a Japanese softball player *

Masumi Mitsui Masumi Mitsui, (7 October 1887 – 22 April 1987), was a Japanese-born Canadian veteran of World War I who had his property confiscated and was detained during World War II as part of the Japanese-Canadian internment. In World ...

, Japanese-Canadian veteran of World War I *

Masumi Miyazaki (born January 26, 1968 in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan), is an actress and model. She graduated from the private Horikoshi High School, and made her film debut in the 1983 release ''Aiko 16-sai'', and was selected as the 11th Clarion Girl i ...

, an actress *

Masumi Okada was a professional actor, singer, stand-up comedian, and film producer. Also known by his nickname "Fanfan", he was born in Nice, France, to a Japanese father, Minoru Okada, who was an artist, and a Danish mother, Ingeborg Sevaldsen, who was the ...

, a professional actor, singer, stand-up comedian, and film producer *

Masumi Oshima is a Japanese writer. She has won the ''Bungakukai'' Prize and the Naoki Prize, and her works have been adapted for television and film. Biography Masumi Oshima was born in 1962. She was raised in Nagoya and grew up reading science fiction. A ...

, Japanese writer *

Masumi Uno is a Japanese watercolor painter and a member of the Japan Artists Association. Works Uno trained as a Nihon Buyō dancer, from which she often borrows stories for her paintings. Her paintings depict animals (mostly fox Foxes are smal ...

, a Japanese watercolor painter *

Sachiko Masumi is a retired Japanese track and field athlete who competes in the long jump. She has a personal best of 6.65 metres for the long jump and occasionally competes in the triple jump, having a best of 13.34 m for that event. She was the Japane ...

(born 1984), Japanese long jumper

Fictional characters

* Masumi, the main character of ''

Swan Swans are birds of the family (biology), family Anatidae within the genus ''Cygnus''. The swans' closest relatives include the goose, geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form t ...

'' * Masumi, a character in the manga version of ''

Candy Boy is an eight-minute original net animation produced by Anime International Company, and directed by Takafumi Hoshikawa. Since November 22, 2007, the ONA is available through streaming on the Cho! animelo audiovisual website and the Nico Nic ...

'' * Masumi Inou, in ''

Search Guard Successor Foundation is the 30th series in Toei's Super Sentai series, a metaseries of Japanese tokusatsu programming. It was the first installment to be broadcast in the 16:9 aspect ratio. It premiered on February 19, 2006, at 7:30 JST on TV Asahi's 2006 ''Super ...

'' * Masumi Nishijima, in ''

Future Diary is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sakae Esuno. It was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's '' Shōnen Ace'' between January 2006 and December 2010, and has been collected into 12 ''tankōbon'' volumes. The plot depicts the Dia ...

'' * Masumi Sera, a character from ''

Detective Conan ''Case Closed'', also known as , is a Japanese detective fiction, detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's Shōnen manga, ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' ...

'' * Masumi Ageo, the character of '' Crayon Shin-Chan'' * Masumi Usui (碓氷真澄), a character from the video game '' A3!''

Fictional characters

See also