Honda (surname)

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

 * 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

 * Kotaro Honda, inventor
 * Masaji Honda (1897–1984), Japanese botanist (es:Masaji Honda)
 * Taira Honda, Japanese mathematician

Sport

 * Akihiko Honda, Japanese boxing promoter
 * Daisaburo Honda (本田 大三郎), Japanese sprint canoeist
 * Erina Honda (本田 恵利奈), 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), Japanese professional wrestler
 * Shinnosuke Honda (本田 慎之介), Japanese footballer
 * Soichiro Honda (本多 宗一郎), Japanese professional wrestler known as Antonio Honda
 * Tadashi Honda (本多 忠), Japanese swimmer
 * Takeshi Honda, Japanese figure skater
 * Tamon Honda (本田 多聞), Japanese professional wrestler and Olympic amateur wrestler
 * Tomoru Honda (本多 灯), Japanese Olympic swimmer
 * Yuichi Hondo, baseball player
 * Yuki Honda (本多 勇喜), Japanese footballer

Other

 * 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), Japanese shogi player
 * Soichiro Honda, founder of Honda Motor Company
 * Tadakatsu Honda (Honda Heihachirō), samurai general from Japanese history

Fictional characters

 * 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