Nakamura (surname)

Nakamura (中村) is the 5th-most-common Japanese surname. Less-common variants are 中邑, 仲村 and 仲邑. Notable people with the surname include:

Sports

 * Aiko Nakamura (中村 藍子), Japanese tennis player
 * Akihiko Nakamura (中村 明彦), Japanese decathlete
 * Ami Nakamura (中村 亜実), Japanese ice hockey player
 * Ayane Nakamura (中村 愛音), Japanese figure skater
 * Ayumi Nakamura (中村 亜友美), Japanese volleyball player
 * Chiharu Nakamura (中村 知春), Japanese rugby sevens player
 * Eiichi Nakamura (field hockey) (中村 英一), Japanese field hockey player
 * Hitoshi Nakamura (中村 等), Japanese ice hockey player
 * Katsumi Nakamura (中村 克), Japanese swimmer
 * Kazuhiro Nakamura (ski jumper) (born 1980), Japanese ski jumper
 * Kazumi Nakamura (中村 和美), Japanese volleyball player
 * Kazuo Nakamura (basketball) (中村 和雄), Japanese basketball coach
 * Kenji Nakamura (sailor) (中村 健次), Japanese sailor
 * Kento Nakamura (中村 健人), Japanese figure skater
 * Kinjiro Nakamura (仲村 錦治郎), Japanese table tennis player
 * Kisato Nakamura (born 1993), Japanese cyclist
 * Kiyoshi Nakamura (athlete) (中村 清), Japanese middle-distance runner
 * Kunihiko Nakamura (中村 邦彦), Japanese basketball player
 * Mai Nakamura (backstroke swimmer) (中村 真衣), Japanese swimmer
 * Mai Nakamura (synchronised swimmer) (中村 麻衣), Japanese synchronized swimmer
 * Naoto Nakamura (rugby union) (中村 直人), Japanese rugby union player and coach
 * Reikichi Nakamura (中村 礼吉), Japanese speed skater
 * Reiko Nakamura (中村 礼子), Japanese swimmer
 * Ryoto Nakamura (中村 亮土), Japanese rugby union player
 * Shota Nakamura (中村 奨太), Japanese speed skater
 * Shu Nakamura (中村 優), Japanese figure skater
 * Tadao Nakamura (born 1947), Japanese golfer
 * Tadashi Nakamura (biathlete) (中村 忠), Japanese biathlete
 * Taniko Nakamura-Mitsukuri (中村-三栗 多仁子), Japanese gymnast
 * Teruo Nakamura (golfer) (born 1952), Japanese golfer
 * Tomohiko Nakamura (born 1991), Japanese vert skater
 * Torakichi Nakamura (中村 寅吉), Japanese golfer
 * Tōru Nakamura (golfer) (中村 通), Japanese golfer
 * Yasuo Nakamura (中村 康夫), Japanese bobsledder
 * Yuhei Nakamura (中村 悠平), Japanese baseball player
 * Yuji Nakamura (中村 祐二), Japanese long-distance runner
 * Yurika Nakamura (中村 友梨香), Japanese long-distance runner
 * Yūzo Nakamura (中村 祐造), Japanese volleyball player

Martial arts and wrestling

 * Daisuke Nakamura (fighter) (中村 大介), Japanese mixed martial artist
 * Hiroshi Nakamura (fighter) (中村 浩士), Japanese mixed martial artist
 * Kazuhiro Nakamura (中村 和裕), Japanese mixed martial artist and judoka
 * Keigo Nakamura (中村 圭吾), Japanese professional wrestler
 * Keita Nakamura (中村 K太郎), Japanese mixed martial artist
 * Kenzo Nakamura (中村 兼三), Japanese judoka
 * Misato Nakamura (中村 美里), Japanese judoka
 * Rie Nakamura (中村 理恵), better known as Bad Nurse Nakamura, Japanese professional wrestler
 * Seigi Nakamura (1924–1999), Okinawan karateka
 * Shigeru Nakamura (karate instructor) (born 1894), Japanese karate instructor
 * Shinsuke Nakamura (中邑 真輔), Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
 * Tempu Nakamura (中村 天風), Japanese martial artist and founder of Japanese yoga
 * Tetsuaki Nakamura (中村 哲明), Japanese boxer
 * Yoshio Nakamura (中村 佳央), Japanese judoka
 * Yukimasa Nakamura (中村 行成), Japanese judoka

Baseball

 * Akira Nakamura (baseball) (中村 晃), Japanese baseball player
 * Daishin Nakamura (中村 大伸), Japanese baseball player
 * Kyohei Nakamura (中村 恭平), Japanese baseball player
 * Masaru Nakamura (中村 勝), Japanese baseball player
 * Masato Nakamura (baseball) (中村 真人), Japanese baseball player
 * Micheal Nakamura (born 1976), Japanese-Australian baseball player
 * Minoru Nakamura (中村 稔), Japanese baseball player
 * Norihiro Nakamura (中村 紀洋), Japanese baseball player
 * Shogo Nakamura (baseball) (中村 奨吾), Japanese baseball player
 * Takeya Nakamura (中村 剛也), Japanese baseball player

Board games

 * Nakamura Dōseki (中村 道碩), Japanese Go player
 * Hikaru Nakamura (born 1987), American chess player
 * Momoko Nakamura (中村 桃子), Japanese shogi player
 * Osamu Nakamura (中村 修), Japanese shogi player
 * Shigeru Nakamura (renju player) (中村 茂), Japanese Renju player
 * Shinya Nakamura (仲邑 信也), Japanese Go player
 * Shuhei Nakamura (中村 修平), Japanese Magic: The Gathering player
 * Sumire Nakamura (仲邑 菫), Japanese Go player
 * Ryōsuke Nakamura (中村 亮介), Japanese shogi player
 * Taichi Nakamura (中村 太地), Japanese shogi player

Football

 * Akihiro Nakamura (中村 彰宏), Japanese footballer
 * Atsutaka Nakamura (中村 充孝), Japanese footballer
 * Fumiaki Nakamura (中村 文昭), Japanese footballer
 * Go Nakamura (中村 豪), Japanese footballer
 * Haruki Nakamura (born 1986), American football player
 * Hayato Nakamura (中村 隼), Japanese footballer
 * Hideyuki Nakamura (中村 英之), Japanese footballer
 * Hirohito Nakamura (中村 洋仁), Japanese footballer
 * Hokuto Nakamura (中村 北斗), Japanese footballer
 * Kaede Nakamura (中村 楓), Japanese women's footballer
 * Kazuyoshi Nakamura (中村 一義), Japanese footballer
 * Keita Nakamura (footballer) (中村 慶太), Japanese footballer
 * Keito Nakamura (中村 敬斗), Japanese footballer
 * Kengo Nakamura (中村 憲剛), Japanese footballer
 * Kiyoshi Nakamura (footballer) (中村 聖), Japanese footballer
 * Koki Nakamura (中村 宏輝), Japanese footballer
 * Kosei Nakamura (中村 幸聖), Japanese footballer
 * Kosuke Nakamura (中村 航輔), Japanese footballer
 * Kyoga Nakamura (仲村 京雅), Japanese footballer
 * Manabu Nakamura (中村 学), Japanese footballer
 * Naoshi Nakamura (中村 直志), Japanese footballer
 * Ryota Nakamura (中村 亮太), Japanese footballer
 * Shigekazu Nakamura (中村 重和), Japanese footballer and manager
 * Shin Nakamura (中村 伸), Japanese footballer
 * Shun Nakamura (footballer) (中村 駿), Japanese footballer
 * Shunsuke Nakamura (中村 俊輔), Japanese footballer
 * Shunta Nakamura (中村 駿太), Japanese footballer
 * Tadashi Nakamura (footballer) (中村 忠), Japanese footballer and manager
 * Taisuke Nakamura (中村 太亮), Japanese footballer
 * Takumi Nakamura (中村 拓海), Japanese footballer
 * Toshiki Nakamura (中村 俊貴), Japanese footballer
 * Toya Nakamura (中村 桐耶), Japanese footballer
 * Yoshiro Nakamura (中村 祥朗), Japanese footballer
 * Yuki Nakamura (中村 祐輝), Japanese footballer
 * Yusuke Nakamura (footballer) (中村 友亮), Japanese footballer
 * Yuto Nakamura (中村 祐人), Japanese footballer
 * Yuya Nakamura (footballer, born 1986) (中村 祐也), Japanese footballer
 * Yuya Nakamura (footballer, born 1987) (中村 祐哉), Japanese footballer

Academia

 * Akimasa Nakamura (中村 彰正), Japanese astronomer
 * Akira Nakamura (academic) (中村 粲), Japanese academic
 * Alice Nakamura, Canadian economist
 * Eiichi Nakamura (chemist) (中村 栄一), Japanese chemist
 * Emi Nakamura, American economist
 * Hajime Nakamura (中村 元), Japanese academic
 * Hiroshi Nakamura (biochemist) (中村 拓), Japanese biochemist
 * Karen Nakamura (born 1970), American academic and writer
 * Kojiro Nakamura (中村 廣治郎), Japanese scholar of Islam
 * Lisa Nakamura, American academic
 * Satoshi Nakamura (中村 哲), Japanese scientist
 * Shuji Nakamura (中村 修二), Japanese-born American engineer, inventor of blue LEDs, academic and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014
 * Takafusa Nakamura (中村 隆英), Japanese economist
 * Tetsu Nakamura (physician) (中村 哲), Japanese physician
 * Yasunobu Nakamura (中村 泰信), Japanese quantum physicist
 * Yusuke Nakamura (geneticist) (中村 祐輔), Japanese geneticist and cancer researcher

Arts

 * Anne Nakamura (中村 アン), Japanese model, television personality and actress
 * Carol Nakamura (born 1983), Brazilian dancer, actress and television personality
 * Chiyo Nakamura (中村 チヨ), Japanese writer
 * Fuminori Nakamura (中村 文則), Japanese writer
 * Makoto Nakamura (中村 誠), Japanese anime screenwriter
 * Mitsuo Nakamura (中村 光夫), Japanese writer
 * Shin'ichirō Nakamura (中村 真一郎), Japanese writer
 * Tadashi Nakamura (filmmaker) (born c. 1980), Japanese-American filmmaker

Music

 * Ataru Nakamura (中村 中), Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
 * Aya Nakamura (born 1995), French singer
 * Dan Nakamura, American music producer
 * Goh Nakamura, American musician, film score composer and actor
 * Hachidai Nakamura (中村 八大), Japanese songwriter and jazz pianist
 * Kazuha Nakamura (中村 一葉), Japanese singer, ballet dancer, rapper and member of K-pop girl group Le Sserafim
 * Koji Nakamura (中村 弘二), Japanese musician, and former guitarist and lead singer for the Japanese rock band Supercar
 * Kôzô Nakamura (中村 康三), Japanese video game composer
 * Maiko Nakamura (中村 舞子), Japanese singer
 * Masato Nakamura (中村 正人), Japanese musician
 * Naoto Nakamura (中村 直人), Japanese singer-songwriter who performs under the name Naoto Inti Raymi
 * Shigenobu Nakamura (中村 滋延), Japanese composer and music teacher
 * Tatsuya Nakamura (中村 達也), Japanese musician
 * Teruo Nakamura (musician) (中村 照夫), Japanese jazz bassist
 * Toshimaru Nakamura, Japanese musician
 * Yu Nakamura (中村 優), Japanese singer, model, television personality and gravure idol
 * Yuriko Nakamura (中村 由利子), Japanese composer and pianist
 * Hiroko Nakamura (中村 紘子), Japanese classical pianist
 * Takayuki Nakamura (中村 隆之), Japanese video game composer

Acting

 * Aoi Nakamura (中村 蒼), Japanese actor
 * Atsuo Nakamura (中村 敦夫), Japanese actor and politician
 * Ayano Nakamura (仲村 綾乃), Japanese actress
 * Chie Nakamura (中村 千絵), Japanese voice actress
 * Chise Nakamura (中村 知世), Japanese actress and gravure model
 * Daiki Nakamura (中村 大樹), Japanese voice actor
 * Daisuke Nakamura (actor) (中村 太亮), Japanese voice actor and actor
 * Eriko Nakamura (中村 繪里子), Japanese actress and voice actress
 * Nakamura Ganjirō II (中村 鴈治郎), Japanese actor
 * Hidetoshi Nakamura (中村 秀利), Japanese voice actor
 * Kaito Nakamura (actor) (中村 嘉惟人), Japanese actor and model
 * Nakamura Kankurō VI (born 1981), Japanese kabuki actor
 * Nakamura Kanzaburō, Kabuki stage name
 * Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII (1955–2012), Japanese kabuki actor
 * Katsuo Nakamura (中村 嘉葎雄), Japanese actor
 * Mami Nakamura (中村 麻美), Japanese actress
 * Masatoshi Nakamura (中村 雅俊), Japanese actor and singer
 * Masaya Nakamura (actor) (中村 昌也), Japanese actor
 * Nobuo Nakamura (中村 伸郎), Japanese actor
 * Saemi Nakamura, American actress
 * Nakamura Shichinosuke II (born 1983), Japanese kabuki actor
 * Shizuka Nakamura (中村 静香), Japanese gravure idol and actress
 * Shugo Nakamura (仲村 宗悟), Japanese voice actor and singer
 * Shūsei Nakamura (仲村 秀生), Japanese voice actor
 * Suzy Nakamura, American actress
 * Tadashi Nakamura (voice actor) (中村 正), Japanese voice actor
 * Tamao Nakamura (中村 玉緒), Japanese actress
 * Tetsu Nakamura (actor) (中村 哲), Japanese actor and opera singer
 * Tomoya Nakamura (中村 倫也), Japanese actor
 * Tōru Nakamura (actor) (仲村 トオル), Japanese actor
 * Nakamura Umemaru (初代 中村 梅丸), Japanese kabuki actor
 * Nakamura Utaemon I (1714–1791), Japanese actor
 * Nakamura Utaemon II (1752–1798), Japanese actor
 * Nakamura Utaemon III (1778–1838), Japanese actor
 * Nakamura Utaemon IV (1798–1852), Japanese actor
 * Nakamura Utaemon V (1865–1940), Japanese actor
 * Nakamura Utaemon VI (1917–2001), Japanese actor
 * Yuichi Nakamura (actor) (中村 優一), Japanese actor and singer, member of Japanese talent group D-BOYS
 * Yuichi Nakamura (voice actor) (中村 悠一), Japanese voice actor
 * Yūko Nakamura (中村 優子), Japanese actress
 * Yuri Nakamura (中村 友理), Japanese actress and singer
 * Yuri Nakamura (singer) (中村 由利), Japanese actress

Visual arts

 * Asumiko Nakamura (中村 明日美子), Japanese manga artist
 * Félix Nakamura (1940–2000), Peruvian animator
 * Nakamura Fusetsu (中村 不折), Japanese painter
 * Gakuryō Nakamura (中村 岳陵), Japanese painter
 * Gorō Nakamura (中村 梧郎), Japanese photographer
 * Hikaru Nakamura (artist) (中村 光), Japanese manga artist
 * Hiroshi Nakamura (artist) (中村 宏), Japanese artist
 * Ikuo Nakamura (中村 征夫), Japanese photographer
 * Kazuo Nakamura (1926–2002), Japanese-Canadian painter and sculptor
 * Kenji Nakamura (中村 健治), Japanese anime director
 * Masaya Nakamura (photographer) (中村 正也), Japanese photographer
 * Mitsuru Nakamura (中村 満), Japanese artist and poet
 * Nakamura Daizaburō (中村 大三郎), Japanese painter
 * Naondo Nakamura (中村 直人), Japanese painter and sculptor
 * Noboru Nakamura (中村 登), Japanese film director
 * Rikkō Nakamura (中村 立行), Japanese photographer
 * Robert A. Nakamura (born 1937), American documentary filmmaker
 * Ryūtarō Nakamura (中村 隆太郎), Japanese anime director
 * Shungiku Nakamura (中村 春菊), Japanese manga artist
 * Takashi Nakamura (中村 たかし), Japanese animator and anime director
 * Nakamura Tsune (中村 彝), Japanese yōga painter
 * Yoshihiro Nakamura (中村 義洋), Japanese film director and screenwriter
 * Yoshiki Nakamura (仲村 佳樹), Japanese manga artist
 * Yutaka Nakamura (中村 豊), Japanese animator

Politics and military

 * Hirohiko Nakamura (中村 博彦), Japanese politician
 * Hōdō Nakamura (中村 法道), Japanese politician
 * Nakamura Junkuro (中村 純九郎), Japanese politician
 * Judith Nakamura (born 1960), American judge
 * Kishirō Nakamura (中村 喜四郎), Japanese politician
 * Aketo Nakamura (中村 明人), Japanese general
 * Kōtarō Nakamura (中村 孝太郎), Japanese general
 * Kuniwo Nakamura (中村 國雄), former President of Palau
 * Nakamura Satoru (general) (中村 覚), Imperial Japanese Army general
 * Seiji Nakamura (仲村 正治), Japanese politician
 * Shozaburo Nakamura (中村 正三郎), Japanese businessman and politician
 * Tetsuji Nakamura (中村 哲治), Japanese politician
 * Tokihiro Nakamura (中村 時広), Japanese politician
 * Nakamura Yoshikoto (中村 是公), Japanese bureaucrat, entrepreneur and politician
 * Masao Nakamura (中村 正雄), Japanese general
 * Itaru Nakamura (born 1963), Japanese police bureaucrat

Other

 * Nakamura (bandit) or Nakamura Chōbei (中村 長兵衛), Japanese bandit and alleged slayer of Akechi Mitsuhide
 * Craig H. Nakamura (born 1956), American jurist
 * Eric Nakamura, American magazine publisher
 * Hiroshi Nakamura (dissident) (中村 泰), Japanese dissident and convicted murderer
 * Ichiro Nakamura (died 1999), Japanese religious leader
 * Nakamura Ichiroemon, 17th-century Japanese swordsman
 * Ikumi Nakamura (中村 育美), Japanese video game artist
 * Kiharu Nakamura (中村 喜春), Japanese geisha
 * Koichi Nakamura (中村 光一), Japanese video game designer
 * Koumei Nakamura (中村 孝明), Japanese celebrity chef
 * Kunio Nakamura (中村 邦夫), Japanese businessman
 * Nakamura Masanao (中村 正直), Japanese samurai, philosopher and educator
 * Masaya Nakamura (businessman) (中村 雅哉), Japanese businessman
 * Mitsuhiro Nakamura (中村 光宏), Japanese announcer
 * Satoru Nakamura (Scouting) (中村 知), Japanese educator and Scouting leader
 * Seisaku Nakamura (中村 誠策), Japanese serial killer
 * Shiro Nakamura (中村 史郎), Japanese car designer
 * Shun Nakamura (中村 俊), Japanese video game designer
 * Teruo Nakamura (中村 輝夫), Japanese soldier and World War II holdout
 * William K. Nakamura (1922–1944), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
 * Yorinaga Nakamura (中村 頼永), Japanese shoot wrestler
 * Yugo Nakamura (中村 勇吾), Japanese web designer

Fictional characters

 * Aika Nakamura, a character in the video game Persona 4
 * Asako Nakamura, a character in the manga series Ushio and Tora
 * Ethan Nakamura, a character in the novel series Percy Jackson and The Olympians
 * Hajime Nakamura, a character in the tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Ryuki
 * Hiro Nakamura, a character in the American television series Heroes
 * Jay Nakamura, Superman (Jon Kent)'s boyfriend in DC Comics
 * Kaito Nakamura, a character in the American television series Heroes
 * Kimiko Nakamura, a character in the American television series Heroes
 * Rio Nakamura (中村 莉桜), a character in the manga series Assassination Classroom
 * Okuto Nakamura, a character in the manga series Go For It, Nakamura!
 * Yuri Nakamura, a character in the anime series Angel Beats!
 * Vice Admiral Nakamura, a character in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation
 * Nakamura, a character in the manga series Kodomo no Jikan
 * Sawa Nakamura, a character in the manga "Aku no Hana"
 * Suzy Nakamura, a character in the graphic novel American Born Chinese
 * Shiori Nakamura, a character in the video game Yo-kai Watch