Murayama (written: ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Akihiro Murayama
is a Japanese mixed martial artist who has competed mainly for Pancrase, Shooto and Greatest Common Multiple.
Mixed martial arts career Early career
Murayama started his professional career in 2003. In his first years, he fought mainly for ' ...
(born 1980), Japanese mixed martial artist
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Kaita Murayama
was a Japanese writer and artist. One of his self-portraits appears in the Mie Prefectural Art Museum in Tsu, Mie, Tsu Mie Prefecture, Japan (not pictured here). He trained at the Fine Arts Academy in Tokyo and was influenced by Western art style ...
(1896–1919), Japanese author
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Milton Murayama
Milton Atsushi Murayama (April 10, 1923 – July 27, 2016) was an American novelist and playwright. A Nisei, he wrote the 1975 novel ''All I Asking for Is My Body'', which is considered a classic novel of the experiences of Japanese Americans ...
(1923-2016), Japanese-Hawaiian novelist and playwright
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Noé Murayama
Noé Murayama (July 4, 1930 – August 25, 1997) was a Mexican actor, who starred in numerous Mexican films.
Biography
Noé was born in Ciudad del Maíz in the state of San Luis Potosí, Mexico. His father was Japanese Mexican. His name is a ...
(1930–1997), Mexican actor
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Shichirō Murayama (1908–1995), a Japanese linguist
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Tamotsu Murayama (1905–1968), Director of the Boy Scouts of Japan
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Tatsuo Murayama (1915–2010), Japanese politician
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Murayama Tōan
Murayama Tōan Antonio (村山等安)Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, João Paulo Oliveira e Costa p.7/ref> was a 17th-century Japanese magistrate of the city of Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Nagasaki (''Nagasaki daikan'', 長崎代官). He was born i ...
, Japanese magistrate in 17th-century
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Tomohiko Murayama (born 1987), Japanese footballer
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Tomiichi Murayama
is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1994 to 1996. He led the Japanese Socialist Party, and was responsible for changing its name to the Social Democratic Party (Japan), Social Democratic Party of Japan in 1996. Up ...
(born 1924), 81st Prime Minister of Japan
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Tomoyoshi Murayama
was a Japanese artist, play writer, novelist and drama producer active during the Shōwa period in Japan.
Early life
Murayama was born in the Kanda Suehiro district of Tokyo. His father, who was a medic in the Imperial Japanese Navy, died when h ...
(1901–1977), Japanese avant-garde artist
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Úrsula Murayama
Úrsula Murayama ( born 1972 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actress. She currently lives in Spain.
Biography and career
Murayama is the best known for the role of Jacinta in ''Esmeralda (Mexican TV series), Esmeralda'' (1997). The main he ...
(born 1972), Mexican actress
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Wataru Murayama
is a female Japanese manga writer. In the west she is mostly known for writing the manga Desert Coral.
Profile
In the past she worked for Mag Garden's Monthly Comic Blade up until September 2006. Following that she became pregnant in Septembe ...
, female Japanese manga writer
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Yasuaki Murayama
is a Japanese professional shogi player, ranked 7-dan.
Early life
Yasuaki Murayama was born on May 9, 1984, in Hino, Tokyo. He learned how to play shogi from his grandfather when he was 5 years old, and won the 20th in 1995.
Murayama was accep ...
(born 1984), Japanese shogi player
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Yoshitaka Murayama
is a Japanese game designer, game director and game producer. He is the creator of the ''Suikoden'' series of role-playing video games, which he produced and directed for Konami until his departure in 2002 before the release of ''Suikoden III''.
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, creator of the video game series ''Suikoden''
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Yusuke Murayama (born 1981), Japanese former football player
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Japanese-language surnames