Abe (surname)

Abe (Japanese pronunciation: [abe] ( listen) - written: 安倍, 安部 or 阿部) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• The Abe clan, one of the oldest Japanese clans, which was particularly prominent in the Heian period
• Asami Abe (born 1985), Japanese J-pop singer
• Genki Abe (1894–1989), pre-war police bureaucrat and head of the Tokko police, and war-time cabinet minister
• Hiroaki Abe (1889–1949), Japanese admiral
• Hiroshi Abe (actor) (born 1964), Japanese model and actor
• Hiroshi Abe (astronomer), Japanese astronomer
• Hiroyuki Abe (disambiguation), multiple people
• Jun Abe (born 1955), Japanese photographer
• Juran Hisao (born Masao Abe; 1902–1957), Japanese author
• Kan Abe (1894–1946), Japanese politician, father of Shintaro Abe
• Kaoru Abe (阿部 薫, 1949–1978), Japanese jazz saxophonist
• Kazushige Abe (born 1968), Japanese author
• Keigo Abe (born 1938), Senior Shotokan karate instructor
• Keiko Abe (born 1937), Japanese composer and virtuoso marimba player
• Kenjirō Abe (born 1989), Japanese professional shogi player
• Kenshiro Abbe (born Kenshirō Abe; 1915–1985), Japanese martial artist in the United Kingdom
• Kōbō Abe (born Kimifusa Abe; 1924–1993), Japanese author
• Kōru Abe, professional shogi player
• Kōsō Abe (1892–1947), Japanese admiral, executed as war criminal
• Mao Abe (born 1990), Japanese singer
• Masao Abe (1915–2006), Japanese academic in Buddhist philosophy and comparative religion
• Abe Masahiro (1819-1857), chief senior councillor in the Tokugawa shogunate when Commodore Perry arrived in Japan
• Masashi Abe (born 1965), Japanese Nordic combined skier
• Momoko Abe (born 1994), Japanese model
• Abe no Nakamaro, scholar, administrator, and waka poet in the Nara period
• Naoki Abe (阿部 直紀, born 1945), Japanese long jumper
• Natsumi Abe (born 1981), Japanese J-pop singer
• Nobuyuki Abe (1875–1953), 36th Prime Minister of Japan
• Norick Abe (1975–2007), Japanese motorcycle road racer
• Noriyuki Abe (born 1961), Japanese anime director
• Sada Abe (1905–after 1970), Japanese convicted murderer, prostitute and actress
• Sadao Abe (born 1970), Japanese actor
• Satoru Abe (born 1926), American sculptor
• Abe no Seimei, an onmyōji, a leading specialist of onmyōdō during the middle of the Heian Period in Japan
• Abe no Yasuna, a disciple of Kamo no Yasunori and father of Abe no Seimei
• Shigeaki Abe (阿部 成章, born 1947), Japanese basketball player
• Shinnosuke Abe (born 1979), Japanese baseball player for the Yomiuri Giants
• Shintaro Abe (1924–1991), Japanese politician, father of Shinzo
• Shinzō Abe (born 1954), 90th and 96th Prime Minister of Japan
• Takashi Abe (born 1976), Japanese professional shogi player
• Takuma Abe (阿部 拓馬, born 1987), Japanese footballer
• Tokiharu Abe (1911–1996), Japanese ichthyologist
• Tomoji Abe (1903–1973), Japanese novelist
• Kae Araki, (born Yoshie Abe, 1963), Japanese voice actress
• Yoshishige Abe (1883–1966), educator, cabinet minister
• Yoshiteru Abe, Japanese go player
• Yoshitoshi Abe (born 1971), Japanese graphic artist
• Yoshiyuki Abe (born 1969), Japanese professional cyclist
• Yuki Abe (born 1981), Japanese international football (association) player
• Yumiko Abe (born 1979), Japanese professional wrestler
• Yurika Abe (阿部 友里香, born 1995), Japanese Paralympic cross-country skier and biathlete
• Yutaka Abe (1895–1977), Japanese film director

Other people

• Magnus Ngei Abe (born 1965), Nigerian politician