Nomura (written: 野村 "field village" or 埜村 "wilderness village") is a Japanese surname.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Don Nomura (born 1957), Japanese-American baseball agent
- Katsuhiro Nomura (野村 勝人), Japanese voice actor, including in the manga series Living for the Day After Tomorrow
- Katsunori Nomura (野村 克則, born 1973), Japanese baseball player and coach
- Katsuya Nomura (野村 克也, 1935–2020), Japanese baseball player and manager
- Ken Nomura (野村 謙, born 1965), Japanese D1 Grand Prix Driver
- Kenji Nomura (乃村 健次, born 1970), Japanese voice actor
- Kenjiro Nomura (disambiguation), multiple people
- Kichisaburō Nomura (野村 吉三郎, 1877–1964), Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and the ambassador to the United States until the attack on Pearl Harbor
- Kodō Nomura (野村 胡堂, 1882–1963), pen-name of Japanese writer Osakazu Nomura, a novelist and music critic in Showa period Japan
- Kunichi Nomura (野村 訓市, born 1974), Japanese writer, actor, radio personality, book editor, interior designer, creative director, and DJ
- Mami Nomura (野村 真美, born 1964), Japanese actress
- Mary Nomura (born 1925), Japanese-American singer, "the songbird of Manzanar"
- Masayasu Nomura (野村 眞康, 1927–2011), Japanese-American biochemist who made seminal contributions in the field of RNA biology
- Mayuka Nomura (野村 真悠華, born 1989), Japanese voice actress
- Michiko Nomura (野村 道子, born 1938), Japanese voice actress
- Misu Nomura (野村 ミス, 1896–1979), Japanese politician
- Mizuki Nomura (野村 美月), Japanese light novelist
- Mutsuhiko Nomura (野村 六彦, born 1940), Japanese footballer and manager
- Naokuni Nomura (野村 直邦, 1885–1973), Japanese admiral and naval attache to Nazi Germany
- Ryutaro Nomura (野村 龍太郎, 1859–1943), Japanese businessman
- Satoru Nomura (野村 悟, born 1946), Japanese Yakuza leader
- Sayo Nomura (野村 沙世, born 1989), Japanese long-distance runner
- Shin Nomura (野村 伸, born 1955), Japanese manga artist
- Shūsuke Nomura (野村 秋介, 1935–1993), Japanese activist
- Tadahiro Nomura (野村 忠宏, born 1974), Japanese Judo competitor
- Takahito Nomura (野村 貴仁, born 1969), Japanese baseball player
- Takashi Nomura (野村 孝, 1927–2015), Japanese film director
- Tatsuji Nomura (野村 達次, 1922–2013), Japanese scientist; pioneer in the development of laboratory animals for biomedical researches
- Tetsuya Nomura (野村 哲也, born 1970), Japanese game and character designer; works at Square Enix
- Tokushichi Nomura II (野村 徳七 二代, 1878–1945), Japanese businessman; founder of the Nomura zaibatsu
- Tomohiro Nomura (野村 智宏, born 1975), Japanese high jumper
- Toshiro Nomura (野村 敏郎, born 1954), Japanese astronomer
- Toyokazu Nomura (野村 豊和, born 1949), Japanese judoka
- Yasunori Nomura (野村 泰紀, born 1974), Japanese theoretical physicist
- Yasushi Nomura (野村 靖, 1842–1909), Japanese politician and cabinet minister
- Yoshio Nomura (野村 義男, born 1964), Japanese idol, musician and actor
- Yoshitarō Nomura (野村 芳太郎, 1919–2005), Japanese film director
- Yuka Nomura (野村 佑香, born 1984), Japanese actress
- Inoue Masaru (bureaucrat) (井上 勝, 1843–1910), Japanese bureaucrat; "Father of the Japanese Railways"; briefly bore the name Yakichi Nomura (野村弥吉)
Fictional characters
edit- Tomoko Nomura (野村 朋子), a character from the manga and anime series Great Teacher Onizuka
See also
edit- Nomura Holdings
- Nomura Securities
- Nomura, Ehime, former town in Ehime Prefecture, Japan
- Nomura Research Institute
- Nomura's jellyfish
- Namoura, another name for basbousa
- Namora, a character from Marvel Comics