Mori

Mori is a Japanese and Italian surname. In Japanese, Mori may also be a given name. It is also the name of two clans in Japan, and one in India.

Italian persons named Mori

• Cesare Mori, Italian "Iron Prefect"
• Claudia Mori, Italian actress, singer, television producer
• Daniele Mori (born 1990) Italian footballer
• Fabrizio Mori, Italian hurdler
• Massimiliano Mori, Italian former professional road bicycle racer.
• Nicolas Mori, Anglo-Italian violinist
• Primo Mori, Italian professional road bicycle racer.
• Simone Mori, Italian former professional racing cyclist

Japanese persons named Mori

There are two names, Mori 森, [moɽi] and Mōri 毛利, [moːɽi].

• Mori Arinori, Japanese statesman
• Mori Chack, graphics designer
• Mōri Motonari, daimyo
• Mori Ōgai, novelist and physician
• Mori Sosen, Japanese painter
• Mori Mari, novelist (Ōgai's daughter)
• Mori Ranmaru, samurai during the Sengoku period
• Akio Mori, physiologist and writer
• Bárbara Mori, Mexican actress (Japanese paternal grandfather)
• Hanae Mori, fashion designer
• Hiroshi Mori, writer and engineer.
• Ikue Mori, musician
• Izumi Mori, fashion model
• Junko Mori, metalwork sculptor
• Kaori Mori, badminton player
• Kaoru Mori, manga author
• Kumiko Mori, opera singer
• Manny Mori, current President of the Federated States of Micronesia (has Japanese ancestry)
• Mariko Mori, artist
• Masahiro Mori, roboticist
• Minoru Mori, building tycoon
• Mitsuko Mori, actress
• Naoko Mori, actress
• Okamoto Mori, actor
• Riyo Mori, Miss Universe 2007
• Shigefumi Mori, mathematician
• Shigeki Mori, mayor of Neagari
• Shigekazu Mori, baseball player
• Shinichi Mori, enka singer
• Shinji Mori, baseball player
• Takaji Mori, football player
• Takeshi Mori (commander) (1894–1945), commander of the Japanese Empire's First Imperial Guards Division, at the end of World War II
• Takeshi Mori (director) (b. 1963), anime director, storyboard artist, and script writer
• Takeshi Mori (announcer) (b. 1959), announcer on Yomiuri TV in Japan
• Tatsuya Mori, film director
• Toshia Mori, actress
• Yoshirō Mori, former Prime Minister of Japan
• Yukinojo Mori, poet

Other people named Mori

• Móri, Icelandic rapper
• Camilo Mori, Chilean painter
• Damian Mori, Italian-Australian football player
• Michael Mori, U.S. military lawyer
• J. Mori Johnson, U.S. medical association director
• Rogelio Funes Mori, Argentine football player

Fictional Moris

• Ai Mori in The Law of Ueki
• Kogoro Mori (Richard Moore), character in Detective Conan/Case Closed
• Takashi "Mori" Morinozuka, character in Ouran High School Host Club
• Ran Mori (Rachel Moore), character in Detective Conan/Case Closed
• Shin Mōri (Cye Mouri), character in Yoroiden Samurai Troopers/Ronin Warriors
• Yorick Mori, character in the online multiplayer game League of Legends

Mori in foreign languages

• Mori (森) is a Japanese word for forest
• In Latin, mori means "to die". In modern Italian, mori may also derive from Latin maurus that means "dark skinned".
  • Memento mori, artistic creations to remind people of their own mortality, Latin for "Remember that you are mortal," "Remember you will die," or "Remember your death"
• mori, is a horse in mongolian, the last i vowel is not pronounced.

Groups

• Mori (clan), a Rajput clan of India
• MORI, a research organisation based in the United Kingdom
• Mori clan (Genji), descendants of Genji in Japan
• Mōri clan, a family of daimyō from Aki Province in Japan

Places

• Mori, Agra, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India
• Mori, a town in Trentino, Italy
• Mori, Shizuoka, a town in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
• Mori, Hokkaidō, a town in Hokkaidō, Japan
• Mori Kazakh Autonomous County, county in Xinjiang, China

See also

• Moori (disambiguation)
• Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand