Noboru
Introduction '''Noboru''' (written: , , , ,  in hiragana or  katakana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:*, official in the government of Japan's Okinawa Prefecture*, former professional sumo wrestler and current politician from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia*, Japanese folklorist*, Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher*, Japanese film actor known for his yakuza roles*, animator who was born in Tokyo, Japan*, Japanese biologist, medical doctor and professor of medicine*, Japanese manga artist*Noboru Kikuta (菊田 昇, 19261991), Japanese gynecologist*, Japanese former politician*Noboru Misawa, anime director and storyboard artist in Japan*, Japanese film director and screenwriter*, former Japanese football player*, Japanese hammer thrower*, Japanese manga artist*, Japanese singer, actor, and voice actor*, Japanese footballer*, Japanese professional golfer*, Japanese freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics*, Japanese politician and the 74th Prime Minister of Japan (1987 to 1989)*, Japanese film director*, Japanese field hockey player*, Japanese freestyle swimmer*, prize-winning Japanese author of fiction*, Japanese boxer*, former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer*, Japanese photographer*, Japanese swimmer*, the second kumicho, or Godfather, of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza gang in Japan*, male Japanese light novel and game scenario author*, professional sumo wrestler from Ulan-Bator, Mongolia
Fictional characters *, a character in the ''tokusatsu'' series ''Kamen Rider Blade''*, a character in the manga/anime series ''Great Teacher Onizuka''
See also *4807 Noboru, a main-belt asteroid