Izumi

Izumi
Origin
Region of originJapanese
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Izumi (), meaning "spring" or "fountain", is a Japanese given name and surname. While a unisex name, it is more commonly used by women.[citation needed] It can alternately be written as 泉美, 和泉, 泉水, いずみ or いづみ. People with the name include:

As given name

  • Izumi Aki (いずみ, born 1960), actress
  • Izumi Arai (, born 1964), stage name Minami Takayama, voice actress and singer
  • Izumi Ashikawa (芦川 いずみ, born 1935), Japanese actress
  • Izumi Eto (江藤 泉, born 1935), Japanese sprint canoeist
  • Izumi Hoshi (, born 1967), Tibetologist
  • Izumi Inamori (いずみ, born 1972), actress
  • Izumi Kato (, born 1990), Japanese swimmer
  • Izumi Kato (, born 1969), contemporary artist
  • Izumi Kazuto (いずみ, born 1979), manga artist
  • Izumi Kimura (born 1973), pianist
  • Izumi Kirihara (いづみ, born), manga artist
  • Izumi Kitta (いずみ, born 1984), actress and singer
  • Izumi Kobayashi (泉美, born 1977), professional Go player
  • Masanobu Izumi (, born 1944), former football player
  • Izumi Matsumoto (, born 1958), real name Kazuya Terashima, manga artist
  • Izumi Mori (, born 1982), model and tarento
  • Izumi Motoya (和泉, born 1974), real name Motohisa Yamawaki, Kyōgen actor
  • Izumi Ochiai (, born 1966), founder member of the Japanese band Aion
  • Izumi Nakadai (born 1988), member of Bon-Bon Blanco
  • Izumi Nakamitsu (, born 1963), United Nations official
  • Izumi Sakai (泉水, 1967–2007), real name Sachiko Kamachi, singer
  • Izumi Shima (いづみ, born 1953), real name Keiko Ishida, actress
  • Izumi Shimada (, born 1948), American anthropologist
  • Izumi Suzuki (いづみ, born 1949), Japanese novelist and actor
  • Izumi Tabata (, born 1956), health scientist, founder of the Tabata protocol
  • Izumi Takemoto (, born 1959), manga artist and illustrator
  • Izumi Tsubaki (いづみ), manga artist
  • Izumi Yamaguchi (いづみ), actress
  • Izumi Yokokawa (, born 1963), football player
  • Izumi Yoshida (吉田 泉, born 1949), Japanese politician
  • Izumi Yukimura (いづみ, born 1937), singer and actress
  • Princess Izumi (, died 734), princess during the Asuka period and Nara period

As surname

Fictional characters

Characters with the given name

Characters with the surname

References

  1. ^ 1990 Census Name Files Archived 2010-10-07 at the Library of Congress Web Archives
  2. ^ 2012 edition, p.86, ISBN 978-91-7424-168-6
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