Murata (surname)
Murata is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Akihiro Murata, Japanese shogi player
- Atsuki Murata, Japanese voice actor and actor
- Chiho Murata Japanese shogi player
- Daishi Murata, Japanese rugby union player
- Hideo Murata, Japanese singer
- Kanako Murata
- Kazuma Murata, Japanese field hockey player
- Kiyoko Murata, Japanese writer
- Koichi Murata, Japanese footballer
- Murata Naoki, 7th dan judoka, author, curator of the Kodokan Judo Museum
- Range Murata, Japanese artist and designer
- Ryōta Murata, Japanese boxer
- Sachiko Murata, professor of religion and Asian studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook
- Shinya Murata, Japanese rock musician, formerly of the band PIERROT
- Murata Shukō, Japanese tea ceremony practicer in the Muromachi period
- Shuyo Murata, Japanese video game designer
- Taku Murata, video game programmer
- Toma Murata, Japanese footballer
- Tomohiro Murata, Japanese shogi player
- Yasuji Murata, anime director
- Yoshitaka Murata, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission
- Yukari Murata, Japanese rhythmic gymnast
- Yusuke Murata, Japanese manga artist
