Nakamura (surname)
Nakamura is the 7th most common Japanese surname. Less common variants are, and. Notable people with the surname include:
Sports
- Aiko Nakamura, Japanese tennis player
- Akihiko Nakamura, Japanese decathlete
- Ami Nakamura, Japanese ice hockey player
- Ayane Nakamura, Japanese figure skater
- Ayumi Nakamura, Japanese volleyball player
- Chiharu Nakamura, Japanese rugby sevens player
- Eiichi Nakamura, Japanese field hockey player
- Hitoshi Nakamura, Japanese ice hockey player
- Katsuhiro Nakamura, Japanese baseball player, coach and manager
- Katsumi Nakamura, Japanese swimmer
- Kazuhiro Nakamura , Japanese ski jumper
- Kazumi Nakamura, Japanese volleyball player
- Kazuo Nakamura, Japanese basketball coach
- Kenji Nakamura, Japanese sailor
- Kento Nakamura, Japanese figure skater
- Kinjiro Nakamura, Japanese table tennis player
- Kisato Nakamura, Japanese cyclist
- Kiyoshi Nakamura, Japanese middle-distance runner
- Kunihiko Nakamura, Japanese basketball player
- Mai Nakamura, Japanese swimmer
- Mai Nakamura, Japanese synchronized swimmer
- Naoto Nakamura, Japanese rugby union player and coach
- Reikichi Nakamura, Japanese speed skater
- Reiko Nakamura, Japanese swimmer
- Ryoto Nakamura, Japanese rugby union player
- Shota Nakamura, Japanese speed skater
- Shu Nakamura, Japanese figure skater
- Tadao Nakamura, Japanese golfer
- Tadashi Nakamura, Japanese biathlete
- Taniko Nakamura-Mitsukuri, Japanese gymnast
- Teruo Nakamura , Japanese golfer
- Tomohiko Nakamura, Japanese vert skater
- Torakichi Nakamura, Japanese golfer
- Tōru Nakamura, Japanese golfer
- Yasuo Nakamura, Japanese bobsledder
- Yuhei Nakamura, Japanese baseball player
- Yuji Nakamura, Japanese long-distance runner
- Yurika Nakamura, Japanese long-distance runner
- Yūzo Nakamura, Japanese volleyball player
Martial arts and wrestling
- Daisuke Nakamura, Japanese mixed martial artist
- Hiroshi Nakamura, Japanese mixed martial artist
- Kazuhiro Nakamura, Japanese mixed martial artist and judoka
- Keita Nakamura, Japanese mixed martial artist
- Kenzo Nakamura, Japanese judoka
- Misato Nakamura, Japanese judoka
- Rie Nakamura, better known as Bad Nurse Nakamura, Japanese professional wrestler
- Seigi Nakamura, Okinawan karateka
- Shigeru Nakamura , Japanese karate instructor
- Shinsuke Nakamura, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
- Tadashi Nakamura, Japanese karateka
- Nakamura Taizaburo, founder of Nakamura-ryū
- Tempu Nakamura, Japanese martial artist and founder of Japanese yoga
- Tetsuaki Nakamura, Japanese boxer
- Yoshio Nakamura, Japanese judoka
- Yukimasa Nakamura, Japanese judoka
Baseball
- Akira Nakamura, Japanese baseball player
- Daishin Nakamura, Japanese baseball player
- Kyohei Nakamura, Japanese baseball player
- Masaru Nakamura, Japanese baseball player
- Masato Nakamura, Japanese baseball player
- Micheal Nakamura, Japanese-Australian baseball player
- Minoru Nakamura, Japanese baseball player
- Norihiro Nakamura, Japanese baseball player
- Shogo Nakamura, Japanese baseball player
- Takeya Nakamura, Japanese baseball player
Board games
- Nakamura Dōseki, Japanese Go player
- Hikaru Nakamura, American chess grandmaster
- Momoko Nakamura, Japanese shogi player
- Osamu Nakamura, Japanese shogi player
- Shigeru Nakamura, Japanese Renju player
- Shinya Nakamura, Japanese Go player
- Shuhei Nakamura, Japanese Magic: The Gathering player
- Sumire Nakamura, Japanese Go player
- Ryōsuke Nakamura, Japanese shogi player
- Taichi Nakamura, Japanese shogi player
Football
- Akihiro Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Atsutaka Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Fumiaki Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Go Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Haruki Nakamura, American football player
- Hayato Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Hideyuki Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Hirohito Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Hokuto Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Kaede Nakamura, Japanese women's footballer
- Kazuyoshi Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Keita Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Keito Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Kengo Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Kiyoshi Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Koki Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Kosei Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Kosuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Kyoga Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Manabu Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Naoshi Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Ryota Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Shigekazu Nakamura, Japanese footballer and manager
- Shin Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Shun Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Shunsuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Shunta Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Tadashi Nakamura, Japanese footballer and manager
- Taisuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Takumi Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Toshiki Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Toya Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Yoshiro Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Yuki Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Yusuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Yuto Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Yuya Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- Yuya Nakamura, Japanese footballer
Academia
- Akimasa Nakamura, Japanese astronomer
- Akira Nakamura, Japanese academic
- Alice Nakamura, Canadian economist
- Eiichi Nakamura, Japanese chemist
- Emi Nakamura, American economist
- Hajime Nakamura, Japanese academic
- Hiroshi Nakamura, Japanese biochemist
- Karen Nakamura, American academic and writer
- Kojiro Nakamura, Japanese scholar of Islam
- Lisa Nakamura, American academic
- Satoshi Nakamura, Japanese scientist
- Shuji Nakamura, Japanese-born American engineer, inventor, academic and 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Takafusa Nakamura, Japanese economist
- Tetsu Nakamura, Japanese physician
- Yasunobu Nakamura, Japanese quantum physicist
- Yusuke Nakamura, Japanese geneticist and cancer researcher
Arts
- Anne Nakamura, Japanese model, television personality and actress
- Carol Nakamura, Brazilian dancer, actress and television personality
- Chiyo Nakamura, Japanese writer
- Fuminori Nakamura, Japanese writer
- Makoto Nakamura, Japanese anime screenwriter
- Mitsuo Nakamura, Japanese writer
- Shin'ichirō Nakamura, Japanese writer
- Tadashi Nakamura , Japanese-American filmmaker
Music
- Ataru Nakamura, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
- Aya Nakamura, French singer
- Dan Nakamura, American music producer
- Goh Nakamura, American musician, film score composer and actor
- Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese songwriter and jazz pianist
- Koji Nakamura, Japanese musician, and former guitarist and lead singer for the Japanese rock band Supercar
- Kôzô Nakamura, Japanese video game composer
- Maiko Nakamura, Japanese singer
- Masato Nakamura, Japanese musician
- Naoto Inti Raymi, Japanese singer-songwriter who performs under the name Naoto Inti Raymi
- Shigenobu Nakamura, Japanese composer and music teacher
- Tatsuya Nakamura, Japanese musician
- Teruo Nakamura, Japanese jazz bassist
- Tomotsugu Nakamura, Japanese electronic musician
- Toshimaru Nakamura, Japanese musician
- Yu Nakamura, Japanese singer, model, television personality and gravure idol
- Yuriko Nakamura, Japanese composer and pianist
- Hiroko Nakamura, Japanese classical pianist
- Takayuki Nakamura, Japanese video game composer
Acting
- Aoi Nakamura, Japanese actor
- Atsuo Nakamura, Japanese actor and politician
- Ayano Nakamura, Japanese actress
- Chie Nakamura, Japanese voice actress
- Chise Nakamura, Japanese actress and gravure model
- Daiki Nakamura, Japanese voice actor
- Daisuke Nakamura, Japanese voice actor and actor
- Eriko Nakamura, Japanese actress and voice actress
- Ganjirō Nakamura, Japanese actor
- Hidetoshi Nakamura, Japanese voice actor
- Kaito Nakamura, Japanese actor and model
- Nakamura Kankurō VI, Japanese kabuki actor
- Nakamura Kanzaburō, Kabuki stage name
- Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII, Japanese kabuki actor
- Katsuo Nakamura, Japanese actor
- Mami Nakamura, Japanese actress
- Masatoshi Nakamura, Japanese actor and singer
- Masaya Nakamura, Japanese actor
- Nobuo Nakamura, Japanese actor
- Saemi Nakamura, American actress
- Nakamura Shichinosuke II, Japanese kabuki actor
- Shizuka Nakamura, Japanese gravure idol and actress
- Shugo Nakamura, Japanese voice actor and singer
- Shūsei Nakamura, Japanese voice actor
- Suzy Nakamura, American actress
- Tadashi Nakamura, Japanese voice actor
- Tamao Nakamura, Japanese actress
- Tetsu Nakamura, Japanese actor and opera singer
- Tomoya Nakamura, Japanese actor
- Tōru Nakamura, Japanese actor
- Nakamura Umemaru, Japanese kabuki actor
- Nakamura Utaemon I, Japanese actor
- Nakamura Utaemon II, Japanese actor
- Nakamura Utaemon III, Japanese actor
- Nakamura Utaemon IV, Japanese actor
- Nakamura Utaemon V, Japanese actor
- Nakamura Utaemon VI, Japanese actor
- Yuichi Nakamura, Japanese actor and singer, member of Japanese talent group D-BOYS
- Yuichi Nakamura, Japanese voice actor
- Yūko Nakamura, Japanese actress
- Yuri Nakamura, Japanese actress and singer
- Yuri Nakamura, Japanese actress
Visual arts
- Asumiko Nakamura, Japanese manga artist
- Félix Nakamura, Peruvian animator
- Nakamura Fusetsu, Japanese painter
- Gakuryō Nakamura, Japanese painter
- Gorō Nakamura, Japanese photographer
- Hikaru Nakamura, Japanese manga artist
- Hiroshi Nakamura, Japanese artist
- Ikuo Nakamura, Japanese photographer
- Kazuo Nakamura, Japanese-Canadian painter and sculptor
- Kenji Nakamura, Japanese anime director
- Masaya Nakamura, Japanese photographer
- Mitsuru Nakamura, Japanese artist and poet
- Nakamura Daizaburō, Japanese painter
- Naondo Nakamura, Japanese painter and sculptor
- Noboru Nakamura, Japanese film director
- Rikkō Nakamura, Japanese photographer
- Robert A. Nakamura, American documentary filmmaker
- Ryūtarō Nakamura, Japanese anime director
- Shungiku Nakamura, Japanese manga artist
- Takashi Nakamura, Japanese animator and anime director
- Nakamura Tsune, Japanese yōga painter
- Yoshihiro Nakamura, Japanese film director and screenwriter
- Yoshiki Nakamura, Japanese manga artist
- Yutaka Nakamura, Japanese animator
Politics and military
- Hirohiko Nakamura, Japanese politician
- Hōdō Nakamura, Japanese politician
- Nakamura Junkuro, Japanese politician
- Judith Nakamura, American judge
- Kishirō Nakamura, Japanese politician
- Aketo Nakamura, Japanese general
- Kōtarō Nakamura, Japanese general
- Kuniwo Nakamura, former President of Palau
- Nakamura Satoru, Imperial Japanese Army general
- Seiji Nakamura, Japanese politician
- Shozaburo Nakamura, Japanese businessman and politician
- Tetsuji Nakamura, Japanese politician
- Tokihiro Nakamura, Japanese politician
- Nakamura Yoshikoto, Japanese bureaucrat, entrepreneur and politician
- Masao Nakamura, Japanese general
Other
- Nakamura or Nakamura Chōbei, Japanese bandit and alleged slayer of Akechi Mitsuhide
- Craig H. Nakamura, American jurist
- Eric Nakamura, American magazine publisher
- Hiroshi Nakamura, Japanese dissident and convicted murderer
- Ichiro Nakamura, Japanese religious leader
- Nakamura Ichiroemon, 17th-century Japanese swordsman
- Kiharu Nakamura, Japanese geisha
- Koichi Nakamura, Japanese video game designer
- Koumei Nakamura, Japanese celebrity chef
- Kunio Nakamura, Japanese businessman
- Nakamura Masanao, Japanese samurai, philosopher and educator
- Masaya Nakamura, Japanese businessman
- Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Japanese announcer
- Satoru Nakamura, Japanese educator and Scouting leader
- Seisaku Nakamura, Japanese serial killer
- Shiro Nakamura, Japanese car designer
- Shun Nakamura, Japanese video game designer
- Teruo Nakamura, Japanese soldier and World War II holdout
- William K. Nakamura, United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
- Yorinaga Nakamura, Japanese shoot wrestler
- Yugo Nakamura, 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
- Kaito Nakamura, a character in the American television series Heroes
- Kimiko Nakamura, a character in the American television series Heroes
- List of Assassination Classroom characters#Class 3-E, a character in the manga series Assassination Classroom
- Yuri Nakamura, a character in the anime series Angel Beats!
- Vice Admiral Nakamura, a character in the television series
- Nakamura, a character in the manga series Kodomo no Jikan
- Sawa Nakamura, a character in the manga ":es:Aku no Hana|Aku no hana"