Shigeru
Shigeru is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Shigeru Ban, a Japanese architect
- Shigeru Chiba, a Japanese voice actor
- Shigeru Egami, Japanese karateka
- Shigeru Endo, Japanese sport wrestler
- Shigeru Izumi, Japanese painter and printmaker
- Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese actor and singer
- Shigeru Kasamatsu, Japanese artistic gymnast
- Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist
- Shigeru Kobayashi, Japanese baseball player
- Shigeru Miyagawa, Japanese rower
- Shigeru Miyamoto, a video game designer for Nintendo, notable for creating Mario among many other characters
- Shigeru Mizuki, expert on yokai and creator of the popular manga series Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro, and others
- Shigeru Morikasa, Japanese baseball player
- Shigeru Nakahara, Japanese voice actor
- Narahara Shigeru, Japanese politician
- Shigeru Oyama, Japanese karateka
- Shigeru Sawada, Japanese general
- Shigeru Shimada, Japanese ice hockey player
- Shigeru Takashina, Japanese karateka
- Shigeru Uehara, a Japanese automotive team lead, designer, and engineer at Honda, notable for his work on Honda NSX and Honda S2000 projects
- Shigeru Umebayashi, a Japanese film score composer
- Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese diplomat and politician, former Prime Minister
Fictional characters
- Shigeru Akagi, from Akagi
- Shigeru Aoba, a character from Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Shigeru Jou/Kamen Rider Stronger
- Shigeru Kanmuri, a character from Yakitate!! Japan
- Shigeru Okido, the Japanese name of Gary Oak, a Pokémon character
- Otori Shigeru, a character in Lian Hearn's popular Tales of the Otori trilogy
