List of samurai

The following is a list of Samurai and their wives. They are listed alphabetically by their family names. Some changed their names and they are listed by their final names. Note that this list is not complete or comprehensive; the total number of persons who belonged to the samurai-class of Japanese society, during the time that such a social category existed, would be in the millions.

A

 * Abe Masakatsu
 * Adachi Yasumori
 * Adachi Kagemori
 * Adams, William (Foreign born)
 * Aiou Mototsuna
 * Akai Terukage
 * Akao Kiyotsuna
 * Akechi Mitsuhide
 * Akiyama Nobutomo
 * Amago Haruhisa
 * Amago Yoshihisa
 * See also Amago clan
 * Andō Morinari
 * Ankokuji Ekei
 * Aochi Shigetsuna
 * Aokage Takaakira
 * Akahori Chohichi
 * Arai Hakuseki
 * Araki Motokiyo
 * Araki Murashige
 * Araki Muratsugu
 * Arima Kihei
 * Asakura Yoshikage
 * Ayame Kagekatsu
 * Azai Hisamasa
 * Azai Nagamasa
 * Azai Sukemasa

B

 * Baba Nobufusa
 * Bessho Nagaharu

C

 * Chacha
 * Chiba Shusaku Narimasa
 * Chōsokabe Morichika
 * Chōsokabe Kunichika
 * Chōsokabe Motochika
 * Chōsokabe Nobuchika


 * Collache, Eugène

D

 * Date Masamune
 * Date Shigezane
 * See also Date clan
 * Doi Toshikatsu

E

 * Escorial Herardo (Filipino born)
 * Etō Shinpei
 * Endō Naotsune
 * Enjoji Nobutane
 * Enomoto Takeaki
 * Era Fusahide

F

 * Fūma Kotarō (ninja)
 * Fuwa Mitsuharu
 * Fukushima Masanori

G

 * Gamō Katahide
 * Gamō Ujisato

H

 * Harada Naomasa
 * Harada Nobutane
 * Harada Sanosuke
 * Harukichi Shimoi
 * Hasekura Tsunenaga
 * Hattori Hanzō (ninja)
 * Hatano Hideharu
 * Hasegawa Eishin
 * Hayashizaki Jinsuke Shigenobu
 * Hayashi Narinaga
 * Hijikata Toshizo
 * Hirate Masahide
 * Hitotsubashi Keiki
 * Hōjō Masako
 * Hōjō Tokimune
 * Hōjō Ujiyasu
 * Hōjō Ujimasa
 * Honda Tadakatsu
 * Honda Tadatomo
 * Honganji Kennyo
 * Horio Yoshiharu
 * Hosokawa Fujitaka
 * Hosokawa Gracia
 * Hosokawa Tadaoki
 * Hotta Masatoshi
 * Hatuki mashou

I

 * Ibuka Kajinosuke
 * Ii Naoaki
 * Ii Naomasa
 * Ii Naomori
 * Ii Naonaka
 * Ii Naosuke
 * Ii Naotaka
 * Ii Naotora
 * Ii Naoyuki
 * Ii Naozumi
 * Iizasa Ienao
 * Ijuin Tadaaki
 * Ikeda Tsuneoki
 * Imagawa Ujizane
 * Imagawa Yoshimoto
 * Imai Kanehira
 * Inaba Yoshimichi
 * Inugami Nagayasu
 * Ishida Mitsunari
 * Isshiki Fujinaga
 * Itagaki Nobukata
 * Itō Hirobumi
 * Iwanari Tomomichi

J

 * Jinbo Nagamoto

K

 * Kakeda Toshimune
 * Kaneko Ietada
 * Katagiri Katsumoto
 * Katakura Kojūro
 * Katakura Shigenaga
 * Kataoka Mitsumasa
 * Katō Kiyomasa
 * Kawakami Gensai
 * Kido Takayoshi
 * Kikkawa Hiroie
 * Kimotsuki Kanetsugu
 * Kitamura Kansuke
 * Kobayakawa Hideaki
 * Kobayakawa Hidekane
 * Kobayakawa Takakage
 * Konishi Yukinaga
 * Kojima Toyoharu
 * Kuroda Kanbei
 * Kuroda Kiyotaka
 * Kusunoki Masashige
 * Kuwana Tarozaemon
 * Kumagai Naozane
 * kagetoru Mato

M

 * Maeda Keiji
 * Maeda Matsu
 * Maeda Nagatane
 * Maeda Toshiie
 * Maeda Toshinaga
 * Maeda Toshitsune
 * Magome Kageyu
 * Manabe Akifusa
 * Matsudaira Katamori (7th son of Yoshitatsu)
 * Matsudaira Nobutsuna
 * Matsudaira Nobuyasu
 * Matsudaira Higo no Kami Katamori
 * Matsudaira Sadanobu
 * Matsudaira Tadayoshi
 * Matsudaira Teru
 * Matsunaga Hisahide
 * Matsunaga Hisamichi
 * Matsuo Bashō
 * Matsudaira Motoyasu
 * Minamoto no Mitsunaka
 * Minamoto no Yoshiie
 * Minamoto no Yoshimitsu
 * Minamoto no Yoshinaka
 * Minamoto no Yoshitomo
 * Minamoto no Yoshitsune
 * Minamoto no Tameyoshi
 * Minamoto no Yorimasa
 * Minamoto no Yorimitsu
 * Minamoto no Yoritomo
 * Minamoto no Noriyori
 * Minoro Takashi
 * Miura Anjin
 * Miura Yoshimoto
 * Miyamoto Musashi
 * Miyoshi Chōkei
 * Miyoshi Kazuhide
 * Miyoshi Masaga
 * Miyoshi Masayasu
 * Miyoshi Moriyata
 * Miyoshi Nagayuki
 * Miyoshi Yoshitsugu
 * Mizuno Tadakuni
 * Moniwa Yoshinao
 * Mōri Motonari
 * Mōri Nagasada
 * Mori Nagayoshi
 * Mōri Okimoto
 * Mori Ranmaru
 * Mōri Takamoto
 * Mori Tadamasa
 * Mōri Terumoto
 * Mori Yoshinari
 * Murai Sadakatsu
 * Mafuji shidoto

N

 * Nagakura Shinpachi
 * Nagao Harukage
 * Nagao Kagenobu
 * Nagao Masakage
 * Nagao Tamekage
 * Nakagawa Kiyohide
 * Nakaoka Shintarō
 * Naoe Kagetsuna
 * Naoe Kanetsugu
 * Narita Kaihime
 * Nene
 * Nihonmatsu Yoshitsugu
 * Niimi Nishiki
 * Niiro Tadamoto
 * Niwa Nagahide
 * Niwa Nagashige

O

 * Oda Hiroyoshi
 * Oda Nobuhide
 * Oda Nobukata
 * Oda Nobukiyo
 * Oda Nobunaga
 * Oda Nobutada
 * Oda Nobutomo
 * Oda Nobukatsu
 * Oda Nobuyasu
 * Ogasawara Shōsai
 * Ōishi Kuranosuke
 * Okada Izō
 * Judge Ooka
 * Ōta Dōkan
 * Ōtani Yoshitsugu
 * Ōtani Yoshiharu
 * Ōtomo Sōrin
 * Okita Sōji
 * Ōkubo Toshimichi
 * Okunomiya Masaie
 * Ōuchi Yoshitaka
 * Omy Yoshika
 * Pore Sufi

R

 * Reizei Takatoyo
 * Rokkaku Sadayori
 * Rokkaku Yoshiharu
 * Rokkaku Yoshikata
 * Rusu Masakage
 * Ryūzōji Takanobu
 * See also Ryūzōji clan

S

 * Saigo Kiyokazu
 * Saigō Masako
 * Sagara Taketō
 * Saigō Takamori
 * Saigo Yoshikatsu
 * Saitō Dōsan
 * Saitō Hajime
 * Saito Musashibō Benkei
 * Saitō Yoshitatsu
 * Sakai Tadakiyo
 * Sakai Tadashige
 * Sakai Tadatsugu
 * Sakai Tadayo
 * Sakakibara Yasumasa
 * Sakamoto Ryōma
 * Sakuma Morimasa
 * Sakuma Nobumori
 * Sanada Akihime
 * Sanada Komatsuhime
 * Sanada Masayuki
 * Sanada Nobuyuki
 * Sanada Yukimura
 * See also Sanada clan
 * Sasaki Kojirō
 * Sassa Narimasa
 * Sasuke Sarutobi
 * Serizawa Kamo
 * Shibata Katsuie
 * Shima Sakon
 * Shimada Ichirō
 * Shimazu Katsuhisa
 * Shimazu Tadahisa
 * Shimazu Tadatsune
 * Shimazu Tadayoshi
 * Shimazu Takahisa
 * Shimazu Toyohisa
 * Shimazu Yoshihiro
 * Shimazu Yoshihisa
 * Shindou Hiroshii
 * See also Shimazu clan
 * Sogo Nagayasu
 * Sue Yoshitaka

T

 * Tachibana Muneshige
 * Tachibana Dōsetsu
 * Tachibana Ginchiyo
 * Taigen Sessai
 * Taira no Kiyomori
 * Taira Masakado
 * Takahashi Shigetane
 * Takenaka Shigeharu
 * Takasugi Shinsaku
 * Takayama Justo (Shigetomo)
 * Takayama Ukon
 * Takechi Hanpeita
 * Takeda Katsuyori
 * Takeda Nobukatsu
 * Takeda Nobushige
 * Takeda Shingen
 * Takenaka Hanbei
 * Tani Tadasumi
 * Tōdō Takatora
 * Toki Yorinari
 * Tochimitsu Gantyoki
 * Tokugawa Ieyasu
 * Tokugawa Hidetada
 * Tokugawa Nariaki
 * Tokugawa Yoshinobu
 * Torii Mototada
 * Toyotomi Hidenaga
 * Toyotomi Hideyoshi
 * Toyotomi Hideyori
 * Tozuka Tadaharu
 * Tsukahara Bokuden

U

 * Uesugi Kagekatsu
 * Uesugi Kagetora
 * Uesugi Kenshin
 * Ujiie Naotomo
 * Ukita Naoie
 * Ukita Okiie
 * Umezawa Michiharu
 * Usami Sadamitsu
 * Uyama Hisanobu

W

 * Wada Shinsuke
 * Watanabe Kazan
 * Watanabe no Tsuna

X
Yasumero Kenshin

Y

 * Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi
 * Yagyū Munenori
 * Yamauchi Kazutoyo
 * Yamada Arinaga
 * Yamada Arinobu
 * Yamada Nagamasa
 * Yamagata Masakage
 * Yamakawa Hiroshi
 * Yamakawa Kenjirō
 * Yamakawa Naoe (father of Hiroshi and Kenjiro)
 * Yamanaka Yukimori
 * Yamanami Keisuke
 * Yamaoka Tesshū
 * Yanagawa Kenzaburo
 * Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
 * Yonekura Shigetsugu
 * Yūki Hideyasu
 * Yasuke