Tomoko (ともこ, トモコ) is a female Japanese

given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...

. Like many Japanese names, Tomoko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: * 友子 - "friendly child" * 知子 - "knowing child" * 智子 - "wise child" * 朋子 - "friendly child" * 皆子 - "beautiful girl" * 詩子 - "poetic child"

People with the name

* , Japanese politician * , Japanese voice actress * Tomoko Aran (荒野智子), born January 14, 1958, Japanese city pop artist * , Japanese judoka * , Japanese origami writer * , Japanese swimmer * , Japanese announcer * , Japanese actress and essayist * , Japanese motorcycle racer * , Japanese actress * , Japanese voice actress * , Japanese politician * , victim of Minamata disease and subject of the photo '' Tomoko and Mother in the Bath'' * , Japanese singer * , Japanese voice actress * , Japanese artist * , Japanese voice actress * , Japanese singer * , Japanese professional wrestler * , Japanese singer, part of 1980s J-Pop duo BaBe * , Japanese painter * , Japanese voice actress * Tomoko Masuzawa, American philosopher * , Japanese women's footballer * , Japanese film director and actress * Tomoko Miho (1931 – 2012), American graphic designer * , Japanese professional wrestler * , Japanese photographer *

Tomoko Moriguchi-Matsuno Tomoko Moriguchi-Matsuno (née Moriguchi; born August 25, 1945), also known as Tomoko Matsuno, is an American businesswoman who served as CEO of Uwajimaya from 2007 to 2017. Biography Moriguchi-Matsuno was born at Tule Lake National Monument, Tu ...

(born 1945), American businesswoman * , Japanese women's footballer * , Japanese swimmer * , Japanese voice actress * , Japanese actress * , Japanese businesswoman * , Japanese actress * , Japanese

manga artist A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist be ...

* , Japanese rock climber * , Japanese women's footballer * , Japanese geneticist, pioneer of the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution * , Japanese fencer * , Japanese volleyball player * , Japanese swimmer * , Japanese fencer * , Japanese ice hockey player * , Japanese lawyer, politician and writer * , Japanese photographer * Tomoko Sugawara, Japanese harpist * , Japanese women's footballer * , Japanese actress *

Tomoko Takahashi Tomoko Takahashi is a Japanese artist. She was born in Tokyo in 1966 and has based in London since the early 1990s. She studied at Tama Art University, Goldsmiths College and the Slade School of Fine Art. Takahashi's main medium is install ...

(born 1966), Japanese artist * , Japanese politician * Tomoko Tamura, Japanese table tennis player * , Japanese ice dancer * , Japanese singer, songwriter and arranger * , Japanese manga artist * , Japanese politician * , Japanese actress and singer * , Japanese tennis player * , Japanese writer * , Japanese volleyball player

Fictional characters

* Tomoko Anabuki a character from the ''

Strike Witches is a Japanese media mix originally created by Fumikane Shimada via a series of magazine illustration columns. The franchise has since been adapted into several light novel, manga, and anime series and various video games. ...

'' light novel * Tomoko Saeki, a character from the anime and manga series '' DNA²'' * Tomoko Kuroki, the main character from the manga series '' WataMote'' * Tomoko Nakaoka, the baby sister of '' Barefoot Gen''. *, a character from the manga and anime series '' Great Teacher Onizuka'' * Tomoko Nozama, a character from the tokusatsu show '' Kamen Rider Fourze'' * In Liu Cixin's science fiction novel

Death's End ''Death's End'' () is a science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. It is the third novel in the trilogy titled Remembrance of Earth's Past, following the Hugo Award-winning novel '' The Three-Body Problem'' and its sequel, '' The Dar ...

the ambassador of an alien civilisation is called 智子 and appears in the shape of a Japanese woman. This is a double entendre between sophon (a fictitious elementary particle) and the Japanese name. * Tomoko Hayashi, a character from the tokusatsu show '' Himitsu Sentai Gorenger'' * Tomoko Shiretoko, a character from the ''

Boku no Hero Academia is a Japanese superhero manga series written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi. It has been serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' since July 2014, with its chapters additionally collected into ...

'' * Tomoko Higashikata, a character from the anime and manga '' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure''

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