Masumi is a unisex Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
*, Japanese hurdler
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Masuumi Juma, a Japanese voice actor
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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
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Masumi Fuchise
(born 2 September 1986) is a Japanese racewalker. She was seventh at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics and is a two-time Asian Race Walking Champion. In 2009, she set the Japanese record for the 20 kilometres race walk event. She also w ...
, a Japanese racewalker
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Masumi Hayashi (disambiguation) Masumi Hayashi may refer to:
* Masumi Hayashi (photographer)
Dr. Masumi Hayashi (September 3, 1945 – August 17, 2006) was an American photographer and artist who taught art at Cleveland State University, in Cleveland, Ohio, for 24 years. She ...
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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
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, a Japanese singer and composer
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Masumi Kuwata, a former Japanese right-handed pitcher
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Masumi Mishina, a Japanese softball player
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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
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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
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Masumi Okada, a professional actor, singer, stand-up comedian, and film producer
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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
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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
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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 ...
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* Masumi, a character in the manga version of ''
Candy Boy''
* Masumi Inou, in ''
Search Guard Successor Foundation''
* 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 ...
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* Masumi Sera, a character from ''
Detective Conan''
* Masumi Ageo, the character of ''
Crayon Shin-Chan''
* Masumi Usui (碓氷真澄), a character from the video game ''
A3!
''A3!'' (acronym for "Act! Addict! Actors!") is a Japanese mobile game developed by Liber Entertainment. The game was released on January 27, 2017, in Japan. It was given a worldwide English release on October 23, 2019, which later ended servi ...
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See also
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4293 Masumi
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures.
In mathematics
Four is the smallest c ...
, a main-belt asteroid
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Japanese unisex given names