Shigeru

Shigeru (written: 茂, 繁, 滋, しげる in hiragana or シゲル in katakana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:


 * Shigeru Ban (坂 茂), a Japanese architect
 * Shigeru Chiba (千葉 繁), a Japanese voice actor
 * Shigeru Egami (江上 茂), Japanese karateka
 * Shigeru Endo (遠藤 茂), Japanese sport wrestler
 * Shigeru Itō (伊藤茂), Japanese socialist politician
 * Shigeru Izumi (泉 茂), Japanese painter and printmaker
 * Shigeru Izumiya (泉谷 しげる), Japanese actor and singer
 * Shigeru Kasamatsu (笠松 茂), Japanese artistic gymnast
 * Shigeru Kayano (萱野 茂), Japanese Ainu activist
 * Shigeru Kobayashi (小林 繁), Japanese baseball player
 * Shigeru Miyagawa (宮川 滋), Japanese rower
 * Shigeru Miyamoto (宮本 茂), a video game designer for Nintendo, notable for creating Mario among many other characters
 * Shigeru Mizuki (水木 しげる), expert on yokai and creator of the popular manga series Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro, and others
 * Shigeru Morikasa (森笠 繁), Japanese baseball player
 * Shigeru Nakahara (中原 茂), Japanese voice actor
 * Narahara Shigeru (奈良原 繁), Japanese politician
 * Shigeru Oyama (大山 茂), Japanese karateka
 * Shigeru Sawada (沢田 茂), Japanese general
 * Shigeru Shimada (島田 繁), Japanese ice hockey player
 * Shigeru Takashina (1943–2013), Japanese karateka
 * Shigeru Uehara (上原 繁), a Japanese automotive team lead, designer, and engineer at Honda, notable for his work on Honda NSX and Honda S2000 projects
 * Shigeru Umebayashi (梅林 茂), a Japanese film score composer
 * Shigeru Yoshida (吉田 茂), Japanese diplomat and politician, former Prime Minister

Fictional characters

 * Shigeru Akagi (赤木 しげる), from Akagi
 * Shigeru Aoba (青葉 シゲル), a character from Neon Genesis Evangelion
 * Emperor Shigeru, a character in the Ranger's Apprentice series by John Flanagan.
 * Shigeru Jou/Kamen Rider Stronger (城 茂/仮面ライダーストロンガー)
 * Shigeru Kanmuri (冠 茂), a character from Yakitate!! Japan
 * Shigeru Okido (オーキド・シゲル), the Japanese name of Gary Oak, a Pokémon character (named after Shigeru Miyamoto)
 * Otori Shigeru, a character in Lian Hearn's popular Tales of the Otori trilogy
 * Shigeru Yahaba, a character from Haikyu!!