Miyamoto (written: 宮本 lit. "base of the shrine") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Ariana Miyamoto is a Japanese model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Japan 2015. She represented Japan at the Miss Universe 2015 pageant and placed in the top 10. She was the first ''hāfu'' (mixed) woman to be Miss Japan. Early li ...

, beauty queen *

Fumiaki Miyamoto (born November 3, 1949) is a Japanese classical oboist and conductor. Career Miyamoto started his oboe lesson at Toho Gakuen High School with Seizo Suzuki, and began his worldwide career at the age of 18, when he moved to Germany to study with He ...

, oboist *, shogi player *

Kanako Miyamoto is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer affiliated with Axlone. She is known for voicing Makoto Kenzaki/Cure Sword from '' DokiDoki! PreCure'' and as the singer of several ''Pretty Cure'' songs. Biography Kanako Miyamoto was born on Nove ...

, (born 1989) voice actress and singer *

Karin Miyamoto is a Japanese singer. She is a former member of Juice=Juice, an all-female pop group within Hello! Project. Hello! Project groups and units * Hello Pro Egg / Hello Pro Kenshusei * Shin Minimoni (2009) * Reborn Eleven (2011) * Juice=Juice (2 ...

, idol singer (Juice=Juice) *

Kazushi Miyamoto is a Japanese professional wrestler. Career Kazushi Miyamoto will forever have the distinction of being the first post-split graduate of the All Japan Pro Wrestling dojo. While in the Dojo Miyamoto was trained by Hiroshi Hase, Johnny Smith, and ...

, professional wrestler *

Kenji Miyamoto (figure skater) is a Japanese figure skating choreographer, coach, and former competitive ice dancer. He skated with Rie Arikawa, winning two Japanese national titles, and then with Nakako Tsuzuki. During his career, he competed at a total of ten ISU Champi ...

, figure skater *

Kenji Miyamoto (politician) was a Japanese communist politician. He was the leader of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) from 1958 to 1977. Early life Miyamoto was born in Shimata-mura (島田村), Yamaguchi in 1908. He was originally from Yamaguchi Prefecture. Miyam ...

, politician *

Masafumi Miyamoto is a Japanese investor and businessman best known as the founder of the video game developer Square. Miyamoto graduated from Waseda University in 1983, and joined his father's electric power conglomerate, Den-Yu-Sha as a programmer in their soft ...

, founder of video game company

Square In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral, which means that it has four equal sides and four equal angles (90-degree angles, π/2 radian angles, or right angles). It can also be defined as a rectangle with two equal-length adj ...

(now

Square Enix is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational holding company, production enterprise and entertainment conglomerate, best known for its ''Final Fantasy'', ''Dragon Quest'', ''Star Ocean'' and ''Kingdom Hearts'' role-playing video game ...

) * Masao Miyamoto, psychiatrist, former civil servant, critic of the Japanese bureaucratic system *

Miyamoto Musashi , also known as Shinmen Takezō, Miyamoto Bennosuke or, by his Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku, was a Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer and rōnin, who became renowned through stories of his unique double-bladed swordsmanship a ...

, historical swordsman and

Rōnin A ''rōnin'' ( ; ja, 浪人, , meaning 'drifter' or 'wanderer') was a samurai without a lord or master during the feudal period of Japan (1185–1868). A samurai became masterless upon the death of his master or after the loss of his master's ...

*, Go player *

Nobuko Miyamoto is a Japanese actress. She was born in Otaru, Hokkaidō, and raised in Nagoya. She was married to director Juzo Itami from 1969 until his death in 1997, and regularly starred in his films. She has been nominated for eight Best Actress Japanese ...

, actress *

Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japanese video game designer, producer and game director at Nintendo, where he serves as one of its representative directors. Widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential designers in the history of video games, he is ...

, creator of the ''

Super Mario (also known as and ) is a platform game series created by Nintendo starring their mascot, Mario. It is the central series of the greater Mario (franchise), ''Mario'' franchise. At least one ''Super Mario'' game has been released for every m ...

'' and ''

The Legend of Zelda ''The Legend of Zelda'' is an action-adventure game franchise created by the Japanese game designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka. It is primarily developed and published by Nintendo, although some portable installments and re-rele ...

'' video game series *

Shunichi Miyamoto is a Japanese musical artist and voice actor. He is noted for having performed several songs for the anime adaptation of ''D.N.Angel''. Biography Early life and music interest Miyamoto started playing the piano at the age of four. Later, he e ...

, musician and voice actor *

Takeshi Miyamoto is a member of the Japanese Communist Party serving in the House of Representatives House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entitles. In many countries, the House of Representatives is ...

, politician *

Teru Miyamoto is a Japanese author. Biography Miyamoto was born in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan and graduated from the faculty of letters at Otemon Gakuin University after which he became a copywriter. In 1970, he began to write his first novel and quit his ...

, author, recipient of the

Akutagawa Prize The is a Japanese literary award presented biannually. Because of its prestige and the considerable attention the winner receives from the media, it is, along with the Naoki Prize, one of Japan's most sought after literary prizes. History The ...

*, footballer *, basketball player *

Tomomi Miyamoto (former name; Tomomi Mitsui, 三井ともみ) is a former Japanese football player. She played for Japan national team. Club career Miyamoto was born in Sagamihara on December 31, 1978. After graduating from high school, she joined Prima H ...

, footballer *, gymnast *

Tsuneyasu Miyamoto is a former Japanese football coach and former player who last coached Gamba Osaka. He played for Japan national team. A central defender, Miyamoto went on to make 71 international appearances and led the Japan national team in the 2002 and ...

, soccer player,

FC Red Bull Salzburg FC Red Bull Salzburg is an Austrian professional football club based in Wals-Siezenheim, that competes in the Austrian Bundesliga, the top flight of Austrian Football. Their home ground is the Red Bull Arena. Due to sponsorship restrictions, ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

Yuriko Miyamoto was a Japanese novelist, short-story writer, social activist, and literary critic active during the Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan. She is best known for her autobiographical fiction and involvement in proletarian and women's libera ...

, author * Koji Miyamoto, professional wrestling historian * Nari Miyamoto, most beautiful women in the world

Fictional characters

Miyamoto Usagi is a fictional character, who appears in the American comic book ''Usagi Yojimbo'', a Dark Horse Comics book created by Stan Sakai. Usagi is an anthropomorphic rabbit (''Usagi'' is Japanese for "rabbit") and a ronin now walking the ''musha shu ...

, from the comic "Usagi Yojimbo" *

Carlos Miyamoto is a 1993 in video gaming, 1993 side-scrolling beat 'em up video game released by Capcom for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (known as the Super Famicom in Japan). It is the direct sequel to the 1989 in video gaming, 1989 arcade game, co ...

, a playable character in ''

Final Fight 2 is a 1993 side-scrolling beat 'em up video game released by Capcom for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (known as the Super Famicom in Japan). It is the direct sequel to the 1989 coin-operated arcade game ''Final Fight'', which was pr ...

'' * Masashi Miyamoto, a character in the 2012 anime ''

Btooom! ''Btooom!'' (stylized as ''BTOOOM!'') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Junya Inoue. It was serialized in Shinchosha's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Comic Bunch'', where it ran from 2009 until 2018, with its chapters collect ...

'' * Terunosuke Miyamoto, an antagonist from the manga series ''

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. It was originally serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from 1987 to 2004, and was transferred to the monthly ''seinen'' manga ...

'': '' Diamond Is Unbreakable''

Fictional characters

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