Mori
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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. There is also a village called Mori in India (East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh).
Italian persons named Mori [edit]
- Cesare Mori, Italian "Iron Prefect"
- Claudia Mori, Italian actress, singer, television producer
- Daniele Mori (born 1990) Italian footballer
- Fabrizio Mori, Italian hurdler
- Francesco Mori, Italian Painter
- 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
- Brooke Mori, former child star, Huckapoo singer (PJ Bardot)
Japanese persons named Mori [edit]
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
- Yoshiro Mori (mathematician)
- Yukinojo Mori, poet
Other people named Mori [edit]
- 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
- Vaclav Mori, Czech violinist
Fictional Moris [edit]
- Ai Mori in The Law of Ueki
- Mori Kibbutz, the brother of Brucie in Grand Theft Auto IV
- Mori Green, a minor character in Grand Theft Auto IV
- 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
- Azrael Mori, character in the star wars role play. Legendary Sith Assassin.
Mori in foreign languages [edit]
- 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 [edit]
- 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 [edit]
- 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
- Mori (restaurant), an historic New York City restaurant
See also [edit]
- Moori (disambiguation)
- Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand
- Quattro Mori: Flag of Sardinia
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