Kuroda

Kuroda (written: 黒田 lit. "black ricefield") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Aki Kuroda (黒田 アキ), Japanese painter
 * Akinobu Kuroda (黒田 明伸), Japanese historian
 * Chris Kuroda, lighting designer and operator for the band Phish and Justin Bieber, among others
 * Emily Kuroda (born 1952), American actress
 * Fukumi Kuroda (黒田 福美), Japanese actress
 * Haruhiko Kuroda (黒田 東彦), governor of Bank of Japan and former president of Asian Development Bank
 * Haruka Kuroda (黒田 はるか), Japanese-born English actress
 * Hiroki Kuroda (黒田 博樹), Japanese baseball player
 * Iou Kuroda (黒田 硫黄), pen name of a Japanese manga artist
 * Jutaro Kuroda (黒田　重太郎), Japanese painter
 * Kan'ichi Kuroda (黒田 寛一), Japanese far-left philosopher and social theorist
 * Kuroda Kanbei (黒田 官兵衛), famed strategist under Toyotomi Hideyoshi
 * Kuroda Nagamasa (黒田 長政), Samurai, son of Kuroda Kanbei
 * Kuroda Kiyotaka (黒田 清隆), Japanese politician and second Prime Minister of Japan
 * Momoko Kuroda (黒田杏子), Japanese haiku poet
 * Nagamichi Kuroda (黒田 長礼), Japanese ornithologist
 * Natsuko Kuroda (黒田 夏子), Japanese writer
 * Paul Kuroda, (1917-2001), Japanese-American nuclear scientist
 * Robert T. Kuroda (1922–1944), American soldier Medal of Honor recipient
 * Sayako Kuroda (黒田 清子), child of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan
 * Seiki Kuroda (黒田 清輝), Japanese painter
 * Sige-Yuki Kuroda (黒田 成幸), linguist, inventor of the Kuroda normal form
 * Shigenori Kuroda (黒田 重徳), Japanese general
 * Takaya Kuroda (黒田 崇矢), Japanese voice actor
 * Tatsuaki Kuroda (黒田 辰秋), Japanese woodworker and lacquerware artist
 * Tetsuhiro Kuroda (黒田 哲広), Japanese professional wrestler
 * Tokubei Kuroda (黒田 徳米), Japanese malacologist
 * Yōsuke Kuroda (黒田 洋介), Japanese anime screenwriter

Fictional characters

 * Hikari Kuroda (黒田 光), a character in the visual novel School Days