Ninomiya (surname)

Ninomiya (written: 二宮 or 二ノ宮 lit. "second shrine") is a Japanese family name.

General

 * Ayano Ninomiya, award-winning Japanese violinist
 * Chūhachi Ninomiya, Japanese inventor and aviation pioneer
 * Kazunari Ninomiya, member of the band Arashi and an actor in the 2006 film Letters from Iwo Jima
 * Kent Ninomiya, first male Asian American to be a primary news anchor of a US television station
 * Ninomiya Sontoku (born Ninomiya Kinjirō), prominent 19th-century Japanese agricultural leader, philosopher, moralist and economist, whose statues of him reading while walking are commonly seen near Japanese schools
 * Tei Ninomiya, first Asian student at Smith College, later an administrator for YWCA in Japan
 * Tomoko Ninomiya, Japanese manga artist

Athletics

 * Hiroshi Ninomiya (born in 1937), Japanese football player and manager
 * Hiroshi Ninomiya (born in 1969), Japanese football player
 * Hirokazu Ninomiya, Japanese football player and manager
 * Jōkō Ninomiya, Grandmaster, founder and director of Enshin Karate
 * Kazuhiro Ninomiya, 1976 Olympic gold medalist and two-time world judo champion
 * Kazuhiro Ninomiya (footballer), Japanese football player
 * Makoto Ninomiya, Japanese tennis player
 * Miho Ninomiya, Japanese judoka

Fictional characters

 * Ninomiya, the main character in the light novel series Goshūshō-sama Ninomiya-kun
 * Ninomiya-kun, of the fictional Sensei and Ninomiya in Minami-ke
 * Rui Ninomiya (爾乃美家 累), a character in the anime series Gatchaman Crowds

Eponyms

 * Nielsen-Ninomiya theorem, a no-go theorem in physics by Holger Bech Nielsen and Masao Ninomiya
 * Hōtoku Ninomiya Shrine, Japanese Shinto shrine in Odawara, Kanagawa dedicated to Ninomiya Sontoku