Honda (surname)
Appearance
Honda (Hondo) (written: 本田 literally "root ricefield" or "origin ricefield", 本多 lit. "root/origin many" or 誉田 lit. "honor ricefield")
is a Japanese surname.Notable people with the surname include:
Media, arts, and entertainment
[edit]- A. Honda, one of the two manga artists under the pen name Akira Himekawa
- Chieko Honda (1963–2013), Japanese voice actor
- Hiroshi Honda (1910-1970), American painter
- Hitomi Honda, Japanese actress and former member of Japanese girl group AKB48 and South Korean girl group Iz*One
- Ishirō Honda (1911–1993), Japanese filmmaker
- Minako Honda (Minako Kudo), Japanese singer
- Kyoya Honda, Japanese actor and model
- Takeshi Honda (animator), Japanese Director, animator and character designer
- Toshiyuki Honda, Japanese jazz musician and composer
- Tsubasa Honda, Japanese actress and model
- Yuka Honda, Japanese musician
Science, mathematics, and technology
[edit]- Kotaro Honda, inventor
- Masaji Honda (1897–1984), Japanese botanist (es:Masaji Honda)
- Taira Honda, Japanese mathematician
Sport
[edit]- Akihiko Honda, Japanese boxing promoter
- Daisaburo Honda (本田 大三郎, born 1935), Japanese sprint canoeist
- Erina Honda (本田 恵利奈, born 1994), Japanese badminton player
- Gene Honda, public address announcer of the Chicago White Sox
- Keisuke Honda, football manager and former player
- Marin Honda, Japanese figure skater
- Ryuki Honda (本田 竜輝, born 2000), Japanese professional wrestler
- Shinnosuke Honda (本田 慎之介, born 1990), Japanese footballer
- Soichiro Honda (本多 宗一郎, born 1978), Japanese professional wrestler known as Antonio Honda
- Tadashi Honda (本多 忠, born 1951), Japanese swimmer
- Takeshi Honda, Japanese figure skater
- Tamon Honda (本田 多聞, born 1963), Japanese professional wrestler and Olympic amateur wrestler
- Tomoru Honda (本多 灯, born 1998), Japanese Olympic swimmer
- Yuichi Hondo, baseball player
- Yuki Honda (本多 勇喜, born 1991), Japanese footballer
Other
[edit]- Hiroshi Honda (disambiguation), multiple people
- Katsuichi Honda, journalist
- Kei Honda, professional shogi player
- Keiji Honda, game developer
- Komatsu Honda, Honda Tadakatsu's daughter, adopted daughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Sanada Nobuyuki's wife
- Mike Honda, U.S. Congressman (D-CA), 2001–2017
- Sayuri Honda (本田 小百合, born 1978), Japanese shogi player
- Soichiro Honda, founder of Honda Motor Company
- Tadakatsu Honda (Honda Heihachirō), samurai general from Japanese history
Fictional characters
[edit]- E. Honda, character in the Street Fighter series
- Kiku Honda (Japan), one of main characters in Hetalia: Axis Powers
- Hayato Honda, a character in Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo
- Hiroto Honda (Tristan Taylor), character in the Yu-Gi-Oh! series
- Keiko Honda, character in the manga series Crayon Shin-chan
- Kyoko Honda and Tohru Honda, characters in the manga/anime series Fruits Basket
- Mami Honda, character in the manga Gals!
- Mio Honda, character in the video game The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls
- Piston Hondo, formerly known as Piston Honda; a character in the Punch-Out!! series
- Sakura Honda, the female version of Kiku Honda from Hetalia: Axis Powers. Appears in season 5.
- Shigekuni Honda, central character in The Sea of Fertility quartet by Yukio Mishima
- Tamaki Honda (本田 珠輝), protagonist of the manga series Magic of Stella