Tomoko

Tomoko (ともこ, トモコ) is a common, traditional female Japanese given name. Like many Japanese names, Tomoko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

• 友子 - "friendly child"
• 知子 - "knowing child"
• 智子 - "wise child"
• 朋子 - "friendly child"

People with the name

• Tomoko Abe (阿部 知子; born 1948), Japanese politician
• Tomoko Akane (赤根 智子), Japanese judge
• Tomoko Akiya (秋谷 智子; born 1976), Japanese voice actress
• Tomoko Fukumi (福見 友子; born 1985), Japanese judoka
• Tomoko Fuse (布施 知子; born 1951), Japanese origami writer
• Tomoko Hagiwara (萩原 智子; born 1980), Japanese swimmer
• Tomoko Honda (本田 朋子; born 1983), Japanese announcer
• Tomoko Hoshino (星野 知子; born 1957), Japanese actress and essayist
• Tomoko Igata (井形 とも子; born 1965), Japanese motorcycle racer
• Tomoko Ikuta (生田 智子; born 1967), Japanese actress
• Tomoko Ishida (石田 智子; born 1977), Japanese sprinter
• Tomoko Ishimura (石村 知子; born 1972), Japanese voice actress
• Tomoko Kami (紙 智子; born 1955), Japanese politician
• Tomoko Kamimura (上村 智子; 1956 – 1977), victim of Minamata disease and subject of the photo Tomoko and Mother in the Bath
• Tomoko Kanazawa (金澤 朋子; born 1995), Japanese singer
• Tomoko Kaneda (金田 朋子; born 1973), Japanese voice actress
• Tomoko Kashiki (樫木 知子; born 1982), Japanese artist
• Tomoko Kawakami (川上 とも子; 1970 – 2011), Japanese voice actress
• Tomoko Kawase (川瀬 智子; born 1975), Japanese singer
• Tomoko Kitamura (北村 智子; born 1963), Japanese professional wrestler
• Tomoko Kondō (近藤 智子; born 1968), Japanese singer, part of 1980s J-Pop duo BaBe
• Tomoko Konoike (鴻池 朋子; born 1960), Japanese painter
• Tomoko Maruo (丸尾 知子), Japanese voice actress
• Tomoko Masuzawa, American philosopher
• Tomoko Matsunaga (松永 知子; born 1971), Japanese women's footballer
• Tomoko Matsunashi (松梨 智子; born 1971), Japanese film director and actress
• Tomoko Miho (1931 – 2012), American graphic designer
• Tomoko Miyaguchi (宮口 知子; born 1975), Japanese professional wrestler
• Tomoko Moriguchi-Matsuno (born 1945), American businesswoman
• Tomoko Muramatsu (村松 智子; born 1994), Japanese women's footballer
• Tomoko Nagai (永井 奉子; born 1981), Japanese swimmer
• Tomoko Naka (中 友子; born 1963), Japanese voice actress
• Tomoko Nakajima (中嶋 朋子; born 1971), Japanese actress
• Tomoko Namba (南場 智子; born 1962), Japanese businesswoman
• Tomoko Naraoka (奈良岡 朋子; 1929–2023), Japanese actress
• Tomoko Ninomiya (二ノ宮 知子; born 1969), Japanese manga artist
• Tomoko Ogawa (尾川 智子; born 1978), Japanese rock climber
• Tomoko Ohta (太田 朋子; born 1933), Japanese geneticist, pioneer of the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution
• Tomoko Oka (岡 智子; born 1964), Japanese fencer
• Tomoko Okano (岡野 知子; born 1979), Japanese volleyball player
• Tomoko Onogi (大野木 智子; born 1969), Japanese swimmer
• Tomoko Owada (大和田 智子; born 1941), Japanese fencer
• Tomoko Sakagami (坂上 智子; born 1983), Japanese ice hockey player
• Tomoko Sasaki (佐々木 知子; born 1955), Japanese lawyer, politician and writer
• Tomoko Sawada (澤田 知子; born 1977), Japanese photographer
• Tomoko Sugawara, Japanese harpist
• Tomoko Suzuki (鈴木 智子; born 1982), Japanese women's footballer
• Tomoko Tabata (田畑 智子; born 1980), Japanese actress
• Tomoko Takahashi (born 1966), Japanese artist
• Tomoko Tamura (田村智子; born 1965), Japanese politician
• Tomoko Tamura (fl. 1983), Japanese table tennis player
• Tomoko Tanaka (田中 智子; born 1958), Japanese ice dancer
• Tomoko Tane (種 ともこ; born 1961), Japanese singer, songwriter and arranger
• Tomoko Taniguchi (たにぐち 智子), Japanese manga artist
• Tomoko Ukishima (浮島 智子; born 1963), Japanese politician
• Tomoko Yamaguchi (山口 智子; born 1964), Japanese actress and singer
• Tomoko Yonemura (米村 知子; born 1982), Japanese tennis player
• Tomoko Yoshida (吉田 知子; born 1934), Japanese writer
• Tomoko Yoshihara (吉原 知子; born 1970), Japanese volleyball player
• Tomoko Yoshino (芳野友子; born 1965), Japanese president of RENGO

Fictional characters

• Tomoko Anabuki (穴拭 智子), a character from the light novel series Strike Witches
• Tomoko Hayashi, a character from the tokusatsu show Himitsu Sentai Gorenger
• Tomoko Higashikata, a character from the manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
• Tomoko Kuroki, the main character from the manga series WataMote
• Tomoko Midorikawa (緑川 とも子), a character from the 2012 anime series Smile PreCure!
• Tomoko Nakaoka, the baby sister of Barefoot Gen
• Tomoko Nomura (野村 朋子), a character from the manga and anime series Great Teacher Onizuka
• Tomoko Nozama, a character from the tokusatsu show Kamen Rider Fourze
• Tomoko Saeki, a character from the anime and manga series DNA²
• Tomoko Shiretoko, a character from the Boku no Hero Academia
• In Liu Cixin's science fiction novel Death's End the ambassador of an alien civilisation is called 智子 and appears in the shape of a Japanese woman. This is a double entendre between sophon (a fictitious elementary particle) and the Japanese name.

References

See also

• "Tomoko", a song by Icelandic singer Hafdís Huld
• All pages with titles beginning with Tomoko
• All pages with titles containing Tomoko
• Tomoyo

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