Okamoto

Okamoto (written: 岡本 literally "hill base") is the 48th most common Japanese surname.[1] [2] Notable people with the surname include:

  • Anri Okamoto (born 1994), fashion model and an actress in Japan
  • Atsushi Okamoto (born 1981), professional Nippon Professional Baseball player
  • Aya Okamoto (born 1982), actress and voice actress
  • Ayako Okamoto (born 1951), Japanese professional golfer
  • Chizuko Okamoto (born 1951), Japanese woman who was convicted of killing her own daughter
  • Fuji Okamoto (1905–1984), Japanese boxer
  • Hama Okamoto (born 1991), Japanese musician
  • Haruko Okamoto (née Ishida, born 1945), Japanese figure skater
  • Hayato Okamoto (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Hideo Okamoto (岡本 秀雄, born 1948), Japanese rower
  • Hideya Okamoto (born 1987), Japanese football player
  • Hisashi Okamoto (born 1956), Japanese mathematician
  • Hitoshi Okamoto, guitarist of the Japanese pop band Garnet Crow
  • Keito Okamoto (born 1993), Japanese singer and member of the group Hey! Say! JUMP
  • Kihachi Okamoto (1924–2005), Japanese film director
  • Kiichi Okamoto (岡本 帰一, 1888–1930), Japanese painter and illustrator
  • Kōzō Okamoto (born 1947), member of the Japanese armed militant group, Japanese Red Army (JRA)
  • Kumiko Okamoto (born 1965), retired female tennis player from Japan
  • Lynn Okamoto, Japanese manga artist
  • Mariko Okamoto (born 1951), Japanese volleyball player
  • Masahiro Okamoto (born 1983), Japanese football player
  • Maya Okamoto (born 1967), in Shinjuku, Tokyo, is a voice actor
  • Mayo Okamoto (born 1974), Japanese singer-songwriter
  • Mike Okamoto (born Detroit, United States), is an American comic book artist and commercial illustrator
  • Mitsunori Okamoto (born 1971), Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan
  • Mori Okamoto, actor
  • Natsuki Okamoto (born 1989), Japanese fashion model and actress
  • Noboru Okamoto (岡本 登, born 1937), Japanese hammer thrower
  • Nobuhiko Okamoto (born 1986), male Japanese voice actor from Tokyo, Japan
  • Okamoto Kanoko (1889–1939), pen-name of a Japanese author, tanka poet, and Buddhism scholar
  • Okamoto Kido (1872–1939), Japanese author
  • Rai Okamoto (1927–1993), American architect, planner, and author
  • Rei Okamoto (born 1991), Japanese model and actress
  • Shosei Okamoto (岡本 將成, born 2000), Japanese footballer
  • Tadashi Okamoto (岡本 正, born 1947), Japanese boxer
  • Takeyuki Okamoto (岡本 武行, born 1967), Japanese footballer and manager
  • Tao Okamoto, (born 1985), Japanese model and actress
  • Tarō Okamoto (1911–1996), Japanese artist noted for abstract and avant-garde paintings and sculpture
  • Tetsuo Okamoto (1932–2007), Brazilian swimmer
  • Tomotaka Okamoto (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Vincent Okamoto (born 1943), American Army officer
  • Yasuaki Okamoto (born 1988), Japanese football player
  • Okamoto Yasutaka (岡本 保孝, 1797–1878), Japanese kokugaku scholar
  • Yoriko Okamoto (born 1971), first Japanese athlete to become an Olympic taekwondo medalist
  • Yoichi Okamoto (1915–1985), American photographer
  • Yoshiki Okamoto (born 1961), video game designer credited with producing many of Capcom's popular titles
  • Yoshiro Okamoto (born 1943), Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party
  • Yuki Okamoto (岡本 勇輝, born 1983), Japanese footballer
  • Yukiko Okamoto (actress) (born 1979), Japanese actress
  • Yukiko Okamoto (athlete) (born 1974), Japanese female distance runner
Okamoto
PronunciationOkamoto
Origin
Word/nameJapanese
Meaninghill base (岡本)
Region of originJapanese

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