Susumu is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: * Susumu Akagi (born 1972) Japanese voice actor * Susumu Aoyagi (青柳進, born 1968), Japanese baseball player *

Susumu Chiba is a Japanese voice actor from Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Some of his major roles include Seiji Hayami in '' Cutie Honey Flash'', Chiaki Nagoya in ''Phantom Thief Jeanne'', Sai Fujiwara in '' Hikaru no Go'', Chairman Muranishi in '' Ki ...

(born 1970), Japanese voice actor *, Japanese bobsledder * Susumu Fujita (1912–1991), Japanese actor *

Susumu Fukui is a professional Go player. Biography Susumu became a professional in 1965. He was promoted to 9 dan in 1994. Susumu became a student of Kaoru Iwamoto , also known as Honinbo Kunwa, was a Japanese professional Go player and writer who ach ...

(born 1947), Japanese Go player * Susumu Hani (born 1928), Japanese film director *, Japanese ice hockey player *

Susumu Hirasawa is a Japanese musician and composer. In the fifth year of elementary school, Hirasawa took up the electric guitar, inspired by the surf and instrumental rock bands he heard on the radio and on TV, later joining his junior high school's band. ...

(born 1954), Japanese progressive-electronic artist *

Susumu Ishii Susumu Ishii (石井進 ''Ishii Susumu''; 1924–1991) a.k.a. 石井隆匡 was the second ''kaicho'' (godfather) of the Inagawa-kai yakuza gang in Japan. He was also fifth ''socho'' of the Yokosuka-ikka. Ishii was born in Yokosuka in 1924. In ...

(1924–1991), Japanese criminal *, Japanese urologist *

Susumu Kajiyama is a retired yakuza best known for his arrest in 2003, who was dubbed the "loan shark king". He has been introduced as a senior member of the Shizuoka-based Goryo-kai, a secondary organization of Japan's largest yakuza syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gum ...

(born around 1950), Japanese criminal *

Susumu Katsumata (disambiguation) Susumu Katsumata may refer to: * Susumu Katsumata (footballer), Japanese footballer * Susumu Katsumata (manga artist), Japanese manga artist {{Hndis ...

, multiple people * Susumu Kitagawa (born 1951), Japanese chemist *, Japanese sport shooter *

Susumu Kuno is a Japanese linguist and author. He is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1964 and spent his entire career. He received his A.B. and A.M. from Tokyo University where he received a th ...

(born 1933), Japanese linguist and author *

Susumu Kurobe (born ; 22 October 1939) is a television, film and stage actor from Kurobe, Toyama, Japan, widely known for his portrayal of Shin Hayata, the first Ultraman in the '' titular character series'', a role he has played since the original series in ...

(born 1939), Japanese actor * Susumu Matsushima (born 1913), Japanese photographer * Susumu Matsushita (born 1950), Japanese manga artist. *

Susumu Mochizuki , better known by his ring name , is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to Dragon Gate. He is not related to fellow Dragon Gate wrestler and long term ally/rival Masaaki Mochizuki, who debuted much earlier for WAR. Professiona ...

(born 1978), Japanese professional wrestler *, Japanese politician * Susumu Noguchi (1908-1961), Japanese professional boxer * Susumu Ohno (1928–2000), Japanese American geneticist and evolutionary biologist *

Susumu Ōno was a Tokyo-born linguist, specializing in the early history of the Japanese language. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1943, where he studied under Shinkichi Hashimoto. He was professor emeritus at Gakushuin University. Career Ō ...

(born 1919), Japanese linguist *

Susumu Ojima is a Japanese entrepreneur who was a founder and chairman of Huser Co., Ltd. Biography In 1953, he was born in Shikama, Kami District, Miyagi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Miyagi Prefecture ...

(born 1953), Japanese entrepreneur *, Japanese swimmer *

Susumu Tachi is a professor of Graduate School of Media Design at Keio University and Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo. Education Dr. Tachi received the B.E., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in mathematical engineering and information physics from the U ...

(born 1946), Japanese academic *, Japanese middle-distance runner *, Japanese sprinter * Susumu Terajima (born 1963), Japanese actor * Tōki Susumu (born 1974), Japanese former sumo wrestler *

Susumu Tonegawa is a Japanese scientist who was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of V(D)J recombination, the genetic mechanism which produces antibody diversity. Although he won the Nobel Prize for his w ...

(born 1939), Japanese scientist *, Japanese footballer and manager * Yamazaki Susumu (circa 1833-1868), Japanese spy *, Japanese Buddhist scholar *

Susumu Yanase is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan, Diet (national legislature). A native of Utsunomiya, Tochigi and graduate of Tohoku University, he joined the government of Tochi ...

(born 1950), Japanese politician *

Susumu Yokota Susumu Yokota (横田進 ''Yokota Susumu'', or ススム・ヨコタ ''Susumu Yokota''; born 1960 or 1961 – March 27, 2015) was a Japanese composer. He released several albums under pseudonyms including Stevia, Ebi, and others. Yokota worked ...

(21st century), Japanese composer *, Japanese manga artist

Fictional characters

*Susumu Gondawara, a minor character from '' Yakuza 2''/'' Yakuza Kiwami 2'' *, main character from '' Mr. Driller'' *

Susumu Kodai is a fictional character appearing in ''Space Battleship Yamato''. In the ''Star Blazers'' localization, he is known as Derek Wildstar, also known as Jason Kodai in the English dub of the first ''Yamato'' movie. Character commentary In the se ...

, main character from ''Space Battleship Yamato'' * Susumu Utada, a character from '' Machine Robo Rescue''

Fictional characters

See also