Tomoko

Tomoko (ともこ, トモコ) is a female Japanese given name. Like many Japanese names, Tomoko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
 * 友子 - "friendly child"
 * 知子 - "knowing child"
 * 智子 - "wise child"
 * 朋子 - "friendly child"
 * 皆子 - "beautiful girl"
 * 詩子 - "poetic child"

People with the name

 * Tomoko Abe (阿部 知子), Japanese politician
 * Tomoko Akane (赤根 智子), Japanese judge
 * Tomoko Akiya (秋谷 智子), Japanese voice actress
 * Tomoko Aran (荒野智子), born January 14, 1958, Japanese city pop artist
 * Tomoko Fukumi (福見 友子), Japanese judoka
 * Tomoko Fuse (布施 知子), Japanese origami writer
 * Tomoko Hagiwara (萩原 智子), Japanese swimmer
 * Tomoko Honda (本田 朋子), Japanese announcer
 * Tomoko Hoshino (星野 知子), Japanese actress and essayist
 * Tomoko Igata (井形 とも子), Japanese motorcycle racer
 * Tomoko Ikuta (生田 智子), Japanese actress
 * Tomoko Ishida (石田 智子), Japanese sprinter
 * Tomoko Ishimura (石村 知子), Japanese voice actress
 * Tomoko Kami (紙 智子), Japanese politician
 * Tomoko Kamimura (上村 智子), victim of Minamata disease and subject of the photo Tomoko and Mother in the Bath
 * Tomoko Kanazawa (金澤 朋子), Japanese singer
 * Tomoko Kaneda (金田 朋子), Japanese voice actress
 * Tomoko Kashiki (樫木 知子), Japanese artist
 * Tomoko Kawakami (川上 とも子), Japanese voice actress
 * Tomoko Kawase (川瀬 智子), Japanese singer
 * Tomoko Kitamura (北村 智子), Japanese professional wrestler
 * Tomoko Kondō (近藤 智子), Japanese singer, part of 1980s J-Pop duo BaBe
 * Tomoko Konoike (鴻池 朋子), Japanese painter
 * Tomoko Maruo (丸尾 知子), Japanese voice actress
 * Tomoko Masuzawa, American philosopher
 * Tomoko Matsunaga (松永 知子), Japanese women's footballer
 * Tomoko Matsunashi (松梨 智子), Japanese film director and actress
 * Tomoko Miho (1931 – 2012), American graphic designer
 * Tomoko Miyaguchi (宮口 知子), Japanese professional wrestler
 * Tomoko Miyamoto (宮本 とも子), Japanese photographer
 * Tomoko Moriguchi-Matsuno (born 1945), American businesswoman
 * Tomoko Muramatsu (村松 智子), Japanese women's footballer
 * Tomoko Nagai (永井 奉子), Japanese swimmer
 * Tomoko Naka (中 友子), Japanese voice actress
 * Tomoko Nakajima (中嶋 朋子), Japanese actress
 * Tomoko Namba (南場 智子), Japanese businesswoman
 * Tomoko Naraoka (奈良岡 朋子), Japanese actress
 * Tomoko Ninomiya (二ノ宮 知子), Japanese manga artist
 * Tomoko Ogawa (尾川 智子), Japanese rock climber
 * Tomoko Ohara (大原智子), Japanese women's footballer
 * Tomoko Ohta (太田 朋子), Japanese geneticist, pioneer of the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution
 * Tomoko Oka (岡 智子), Japanese fencer
 * Tomoko Okano (岡野 知子), Japanese volleyball player
 * Tomoko Onogi (大野木 智子), Japanese swimmer
 * Tomoko Owada (大和田 智子), Japanese fencer
 * Tomoko Sakagami (坂上 智子), Japanese ice hockey player
 * Tomoko Sasaki (佐々木 知子), Japanese lawyer, politician and writer
 * Tomoko Sawada (澤田 知子), Japanese photographer
 * Tomoko Sugawara, Japanese harpist
 * Tomoko Suzuki (鈴木 智子), Japanese women's footballer
 * Tomoko Tabata (田畑 智子), Japanese actress
 * Tomoko Takahashi (born 1966), Japanese artist
 * Tomoko Tamura (田村智子), Japanese politician
 * Tomoko Tamura, Japanese table tennis player
 * Tomoko Tanaka (田中 智子), Japanese ice dancer
 * Tomoko Tane (種 ともこ), Japanese singer, songwriter and arranger
 * Tomoko Taniguchi (たにぐち 智子), Japanese manga artist
 * Tomoko Ukishima (浮島 智子), Japanese politician
 * Tomoko Yamaguchi (山口 智子), Japanese actress and singer
 * Tomoko Yonemura (米村 知子), Japanese tennis player
 * Tomoko Yoshida (吉田 知子), Japanese writer
 * Tomoko Yoshihara (吉原 知子), Japanese volleyball player
 * Tomoko Yoshino (芳野友子), Japanese president of RENGO

Fictional characters

 * Tomoko Anabuki (穴拭 智子), a character from the Strike Witches light novel
 * Tomoko Hayashi, a character from the tokusatsu show Himitsu Sentai Gorenger
 * Tomoko Higashikata, a character from the manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
 * Tomoko Kuroki, the main character from the manga series WataMote
 * Tomoko Midorikawa (緑川 とも子), a character from the 2012 anime series Smile PreCure!
 * Tomoko Nakaoka, the baby sister of Barefoot Gen
 * Tomoko Nomura (野村 朋子), a character from the manga and anime series Great Teacher Onizuka
 * Tomoko Nozama, a character from the tokusatsu show Kamen Rider Fourze
 * Tomoko Saeki, a character from the anime and manga series DNA²
 * Tomoko Shiretoko, a character from the Boku no Hero Academia
 * In Liu Cixin's science fiction novel Death's End the ambassador of an alien civilisation is called 智子 and appears in the shape of a Japanese woman. This is a double entendre between sophon (a fictitious elementary particle) and the Japanese name.