Nobuo

Nobuo (written: 信男, 信雄, 伸郎, 伸夫, 宣生, のぶお in hiragana or ノブオ in katakana) is a masculine, Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:


 * Nobuo Amayake (天宅 信雄), Japanese professional Go player
 * Nobuo Aoyagi (青柳 信雄), Japanese film director and film producer
 * Nobuo Chigusa (千種 信雄), Japanese basketball player
 * Nobuo Fujita (藤田 信雄), Warrant Flying Officer of the Imperial Japanese Navy
 * Nobuo Hattori (服部 信雄), Japanese basketball player
 * Nobuo Ikeda (池田 信夫), Japanese economist
 * Nobuo Kaiho (海保 宣生), Japanese basketball player
 * Nobuo Kaneko (金子 信雄), Japanese actor
 * Nobuo Kawai (川合 伸旺), Japanese actor
 * Nobuo Kishi (岸 信夫), Japanese politician
 * Nobuo Kojima (小島 信夫), Japanese writer
 * Nobuo Kyo (姜 暢雄), Japanese actor
 * Nobuo Matsuno (松野 信夫), Japanese politician
 * Nobuo Mii (三井 信雄), Japanese computer pioneer
 * Nobuo Kanda (神田 信夫), Japanese historian
 * Nobuo Nakagawa (中川 信夫), Japanese film director
 * Nobuo Nakamura (中村 伸郎), Japanese actor
 * Nobuo Nashiro (名城 信男), Japanese boxer
 * Nobuo Noda (野田 信夫), Japanese business scholar
 * Nobuo Okishio (置塩 信雄), Japanese economist
 * Nobuo Sasaki (佐々木 信男), Japanese handball player
 * Nobuo Satō (佐藤 信夫), former Japanese figure skater and current coach
 * Nobuo Sekine (関根 伸夫), Japanese sculptor
 * Nobuo Suga (born 1933), Japanese biologist, known for hearing research
 * Nobuo Tanaka (田中 伸男), former executive director of the International Energy Agency
 * Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi (1911–1943), war participant
 * Nobuo Tobita (飛田 展男), Japanese voice actor
 * Nobuo Uematsu (植松 伸夫), Japanese composer of video game music
 * Nobuo Yana (八名 信夫), Japanese film actor
 * Nobuo Yoneda (米田 信夫), Japanese mathematician and computer scientist