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Japanese surname
Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames, as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written the same in kanji may also be pronounced ...
. Notable people with the surname include:
*, Japanese graphic artist who designed Pikachu
*, Japanese business executive
*, Japanese footballer
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Goro Nishida
was a Japanese mathematician. He was a leading member of the Japanese school of homotopy theory, following in the tradition of Hiroshi Toda.
Nishida received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 1973, after spending the 1971–72 academic year a ...
(1943–2014), Japanese mathematician
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Hikaru Nishida
is a Japanese pop singer and actress. She was born in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, and made her singing debut on April 6, 1988 with the release of the single "Fifteen", named after her age at the time. Nishida is affiliated with Manase ...
(born 1972), Japanese singer and actress
*, Japanese high jumper
*, Japanese long-distance runner
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Kitaro Nishida (1870–1945), Japanese philosopher, founder of the Kyoto School of philosophy
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Makoto Nishida (born 1962), Japanese politician
*, Japanese footballer and manager
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Naomi Nishida
is an actress. She won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 2001 Yokohama Film Festival and at the 25th Hochi Film Award for her performance in ''Nabbie's Love''.
Personal life
She married a Japanese shoe designer in 2005, and gave birth to ...
(born 1972), Japanese actress
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Nishida Shun'ei
is a Japanese painter who specializes in portraits and is a professor of Japanese painting at Hiroshima City University.http://www.adachi-museum.or.jp/e/i_award.html, The Adachi Museum, The Adachi Museum of Art Award, Award-winning Works, Ret ...
(born 1953), Japanese painter
*, Japanese actor
*, Japanese fencer
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Shoji Nishida
is a conservative Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). He was born in Kyoto Prefecture on 19 September 1958, graduated from Shiga University in 1981, beca ...
(born 1958), Japanese politician
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Shuhei Nishida
was a Japanese Olympic athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault.[Takayuki Nishida
is a retired male long-distance runner from Japan who mainly competed in the marathon race
The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of , usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes. The m ...]
(born 1977), Japanese long-distance runner
*, Japanese shogi player
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Tatsuo Nishida
was a professor at Kyoto University. His work encompasses research on a variety of Tibeto-Burman languages, he made great contributions in particular to the deciphering of the Tangut language.
Biography
Born in Osaka, Nishida graduated from the K ...
(1928–2012), Japanese linguist
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Toshisada Nishida
Toshisada Nishida (3 March, 1941 – 7 June, 2011) was a Japanese primatologist who established one of the first long term chimpanzee field research sites. He was the first to discover that chimpanzees, instead of forming nuclear family-like ...
(1941–2011), Japanese primatologist
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Toshiyuki Nishida
is a Japanese actor. He has won two Japanese Academy Awards for best actor, for '' The Silk Road'' (1988) and ''Tsuribaka Nisshi 6'' (1993). He has also won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor for '' Get Up!'' and '' Tsuribaka Nisshi 14'' (200 ...
(born 1947), Japanese actor
*, Japanese volleyball player
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Japanese-language surnames