Yokoi is Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Gunpei Yokoi
, sometimes transliterated Gumpei Yokoi, was a Japanese video game designer. He was a long-time Nintendo employee, best known as creator of the Game & Watch handheld system, inventor of the cross-shaped Control Pad, the original designer of th ...
, designer of the Game Boy and other Nintendo products
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Hirotaka Yokoi
(born June 8, 1978) is a Japanese former mixed martial artist and professional wrestler. A professional MMA competitor from 2000 until 2007, Yokoi fought for PRIDE, Shooto, RINGS, and DEEP, while in professional wrestling he wrestled mainly for P ...
, professional mixed martial arts fighter
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Shoichi Yokoi
was a sergeant in the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during the Second World War, and was one of the last three Japanese holdouts to be found after the end of hostilities in 1945. He was discovered in the jungles of Guam on 24 January 1972, almos ...
, soldier and celebrity
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Shonan Yokoi, political reformer
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Mitsuo Yokoi, a Japanese voice actor (known as "Tesshō Genda")
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Yokoi Yayū
was a Japanese samurai best known for his haibun, a scholar of Kokugaku, and haikai poet. He was born , and took the pseudonym Tatsunojō. His family are believed to be descendants of Hōjō Tokiyuki.
Life
Yayū was born in Nagoya, the firs ...
, 18th-century poet
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Japanese-language surnames