is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Aijiro Tomita
was a Japanese politician who served as governor of Hiroshima Prefecture from January 1937 to November 1938. He was governor of Mie Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Mie Prefecture has a populatio ...
(1885–1954), Japanese politician
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Hiroyuki Tomita
Hiroyuki Tomita (Japanese: 冨田洋之; born November 21, 1980) is a Japanese gymnast. Tomita won three Olympic medals at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics.
Personal life
Tomita began gymnastics at the age of eight (born 1980), Japanese gymnast
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Isao Tomita
, often known simply as Tomita, was a Japanese composer, regarded as one of the pioneers of electronic music and space music, and as one of the most famous producers of analog synthesizer arrangements. In addition to creating note-by-note realiz ...
(1932–2016), Japanese electronic music composer
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Kazuo Tomita (born 1939), Japanese swimmer who participated in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome
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Kishti Tomita (born 1963), Swedish voice coach and television personality
*, Japanese former professional baseball player
*, Japanese footballer
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Kōichirō Tomita (1925–2006), Japanese astronomer
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Kōsei Tomita (born 1936), Japanese voice actor
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Makiko Tomita
is a Japanese rugby sevens player. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics as a member of the Japan women's national rugby sevens team. She also competed in the 2010 Asian Games.
Tomita studied at Waseda University in the School of Intern ...
(born 1991), Japanese rugby sevens player
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Masaru Tomita
is a Japanese molecular biologist and computer scientist, best known as the director of the E-Cell simulation environment software and/or the inventor of GLR parser algorithm.Tomita M. (1984).LR parsers for natural languages. COLING. 10th Intern ...
(born 1957), Japanese molecular biologist and computer science professor, and son of Isao Tomita
*, Japanese former professional baseball player
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Mayu Tomita (born 1995), Japanese singer and actress
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Minoru Tomita (1924–2015), Japanese mathematician and originator of
Tomita-Takesaki theory in
von Neumann algebra
In mathematics, a von Neumann algebra or W*-algebra is a *-algebra of bounded operators on a Hilbert space that is closed in the weak operator topology and contains the identity operator. It is a special type of C*-algebra.
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Naoya Tomita
is a Japanese breaststroke swimmer. In 2010, he won the 200 m event at the World Championships (short course) and at the Asian Games. At the 2014 Asian Games he was caught on surveillance cameras while stealing a video camera belonging to the Y ...
(born 1989), Japanese breaststroke swimmer
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Nene Tomita
Nene Tomita ( ja, 冨田寧寧; ''Tomita Nene''), born September 30, 1982, is a former volleyball player who played for Toray Arrows.
Profiles
Her parents were the basketball players in China. When she was baby her father died, and her mother ...
(born 1982), Japanese volleyball player
*, Japanese snowboarder
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Shoichi Tomita (born 1936), Japanese Olympic ice hockey player
*, Japanese idol
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Tamlyn Tomita
Tamlyn Naomi Tomita (born January 27, 1966) is a Japanese-American actress and singer. She made her screen debut as Kumiko in ''The Karate Kid Part II'' (1986) and reprised the character for the streaming series ''Cobra Kai'' (2021). She is also ...
(born 1966), Japanese-born American actress
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Teiko Tomita (1896–1990), Japanese poet
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Tomita Tsunejirō
, born , was the earliest disciple of judo. His name appears in the first line of the enrollment book of the Kōdōkan.
. Tomita, together with Saigō Shirō, became the first in the history of judo to be awarded the rank of Shodan by the foun ...
(1865–1937), Japanese judoka, and the first ever to be awarded black belt in judo
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Tsutomu Tomita (born 1943), the former chairman of Toyota Motorsport GmbH and current president of Fuji Speedway
*Richard Tomita (born 1927), American
Olympic weightlifter
Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lift ...
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Yoshio Tomita
is a male former international table tennis player from Japan.
Table tennis career
From 1955 to 1957 he won eight medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships.
The eight World Championship medals included ...
, Japanese table tennis world champion
See also
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Tomita–Takesaki theory In the theory of von Neumann algebras, a part of the mathematical field of functional analysis, Tomita–Takesaki theory is a method for constructing modular automorphisms of von Neumann algebras from the polar decomposition of a certain involution ...
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Japanese-language surnames