Ninomiya (surname)

Notable people

General

• Ayano Ninomiya, award-winning Japanese violinist
• Chūhachi Ninomiya, Japanese inventor and aviation pioneer
• Kazunari Ninomiya, member of the band Arashi and an actor in the 2006 film Letters from Iwo Jima
• Kent Ninomiya, first male Asian American to be a primary news anchor of a US television station
• Ninomiya Sontoku, prominent 19th-century Japanese agricultural leader, philosopher, moralist and economist, whose statues of him reading while walking are commonly seen near Japanese schools
• Tomoko Ninomiya, Japanese manga artist

  Athletics

• Hiroshi Ninomiya, Japanese football player and manager
• Hiroshi Ninomiya, Japanese football player
• Hirokazu Ninomiya, Japanese football player and manager
• Jōkō Ninomiya, Grandmaster, founder and director of Enshin Karate
• Kazuhiro Ninomiya, 1976 Olympic gold medalist and two-time world judo champion
• Kazuhiro Ninomiya, Japanese football player
• Makoto Ninomiya, Japanese tennis player
• Miho Ninomiya, Japanese judoka

  Fictional characters

• Ninomiya, the main character in the light novel series Goshūshō-sama Ninomiya-kun
• Ninomiya-kun, of the fictional Sensei and Ninomiya in Minami-ke
• Rui Ninomiya, a character in the anime series Gatchaman Crowds

  Eponyms

• Nielsen-Ninomiya theorem, a no-go theorem in physics by Holger Bech Nielsen and Masao Ninomiya
• Hōtoku Ninomiya Shrine, Japanese Shinto shrine in Odawara, Kanagawa dedicated to Ninomiya Sontoku