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 (1943–2020), American Army officer and judge
• 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

Pronunciation	Okamoto
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	hill base (岡本)
Region of origin	Japanese

See also

• 6244 Okamoto, a main-belt asteroid
• Okamoto Station (Hyōgo), railway station of the Hankyu Kobe Line in Higashinada-ku, Kobe
• Okamoto–Uchiyama cryptosystem, discovered in 1998 by T. Okamoto and S. Uchiyama
• Okamoto's, a rock band whose members each adopted stage names with the surname Okamoto
• Taro Okamoto Award, award for Contemporary Art (TARO Award)

References

1. research work by Tadashige Murayama, no date when research completed.
2. "Japan's top 100 most common family names". The Japan Times. 2009-10-11. Retrieved 2017-09-06.