Yamaguchi (surname)

For other uses, see Yamaguchi (disambiguation).

Yamaguchi (山口, "mountain entrance/gateway") is the 15th most common Japanese surname.

People

People bearing the surname Yamaguchi include:

• Adam Yamaguchi, an American television correspondent and producer at Current TV
• Akira Yamaguchi, a Japanese modern artist
• Eri Yamaguchi (born 1973), a Japanese long-distance runner
• Erina Yamaguchi, a Japanese gravure idol
• Gōgen Yamaguchi (1909–1989), a Japanese karateka
• Gorō Yamaguchi (1933–1999), a world-famous Japanese shakuhachi musician
• Hideko Yamaguchi, a plaintiff foster mother in Sweden v. Yamaguchi, a famous international family law trial
• Hisashi Yamaguchi (1952–2010), Japanese sumo wrestler
• Hitomi Yamaguchi (1923–1995), a popular Japanese novelist and essayist
• Hotaru Yamaguchi (born 1990), a Japanese football midfielder
• Jun Yamaguchi (born 1967), a Japanese composer
• Kappei Yamaguchi, a Japanese voice actor
• Kayo Yamaguchi (1899–1984), a Japanese painter
• Keiji Yamaguchi, a creature technical director in Industrial Light & Magic
• Koichi Yamaguchi, a bicycle framebuilder
• Kristi Yamaguchi, a Japanese American figure skater
• Makoto Yamaguchi, an origami artist
• Masakatsu Yamaguchi, a plaintiff foster father in Sweden v. Yamaguchi, a famous international family law trial
• Masaya Yamaguchi (born 1970), American jazz guitarist and music writer born in Japan
• Mayumi Yamaguchi (born 1975), a Japanese voice actor
• Momoe Yamaguchi (born 1959), a former Japanese pop singer, actress and idol
• Motohiro Yamaguchi (born 1969), a Japanese football midfielder
• Noboru Yamaguchi (1901–1942), the second kumicho, or Godfather, of the Yamaguchi-gumi
• Otoya Yamaguchi (1943–1960), a Japanese ultranationalist best known for his assassination of Inejiro Asanuma
• Rico Yamaguchi, stage name for Japanese singer and AV actress Rina Nakanishi
• Roy Yamaguchi, a Japanese-American chef
• Ryōta Yamaguchi (born 1969), a Japanese anime screenwriter
• Seigo Yamaguchi (1924–1996), a Japanese aikido teacher
• Shigehiro Yamaguchi, a Japanese actor
• Takayuki Yamaguchi, a Japanese voice actor
• Tamon Yamaguchi (1892–1942), a Japanese Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy
• Tomoko Yamaguchi (born 1964), a Japanese actress and singer
• Taro Yamaguchi (born 1970), a Japanese voice actor
• Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916–2010), a Japanese national who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during the Second World War
• Wally Yamaguchi, a Japanese professional wrestling personality, better known in the U.S. as Yamaguchi-San, the manager of Kai En Tai in World Wrestling Entertainment
• Yoshiko Ōtaka, born and aka Yoshiko Yamaguchi, an actress well known as Lǐ Xiānglán (李香蘭, Ri Kōran) during the World War II
• Yuki Yamaguchi, a Japanese sprinter
• Yuriko Yamaguchi (voice actor) (born 1965), a Japanese voice actor
• Yuriko Yamaguchi (sculptor) (born 1948), a Japanese-American sculptor
• Yutaka Yamaguchi (born 1940), a Japanese businessman and economist
• Satyu Yamaguti (1894-1976), famous Japanese parasitologist

Fictional characters

• Kumiko "Yankumi" Yamaguchi, a character of Yukie Nakama in Gokusen
• Yamaguchi-sensei, a doctor in the manga/anime series Fighting Spirit
• Tadashi Yamaguchi,a member of the Karasuno Volleyball team in Haikyuu!!