Watanabe
Watanabe is the fifth most common family name in Japan and the name of:
- Emi Watanabe ( born 1959 ), Japanese figure skater
- Eriko Watanabe ( born 1955 ), Japanese actress, theater director and playwright
- Fumio Watanabe (1929-2004), Japanese actor
- Hidemaro Watanabe (1924-2011), Japanese football player
- Hinata Watanabe ( born 1986 ), Japanese Welterweight kickboxer
- Hiroaki Watanabe (* 1991), Japanese ski jumper
- Hiroshi Watanabe ( photographer) ( born 1951 ), Japanese Photographer
- Hiroshi Watanabe (director), Japanese anime director
- Hiroshi Watanabe (musician ) (born 1971 ), Japanese musician
- José Watanabe Varas (1946-2007), Peruvian poet
- Jolene Watanabe - Giltz ( b. 1968 ), American tennis player
- Jun'ichi Watanabe ( born 1933), Japanese writer
- Jun'ya Watanabe ( born 1961 ), Japanese fashion designer
- Katsuaki Watanabe ( born 1942 ), Japanese managers
- Watanabe Kazan (1793-1841), Japanese painter
- Kazuki Watanabe (* 1990), Japanese motorcycle racer
- Kazuma Watanabe ( born 1986 ), Japanese football player
- Kazumi Watanabe ( born 1953 ), Japanese fusion guitarist
- Kazunari Watanabe ( b. 1983 ), Japanese racing cyclist
- Kazuro Watanabe ( born 1955 ), Japanese amateur astronomer
- Kazushi Watanabe (born 1976 ), Japanese director and actor
- Ken Watanabe ( born 1959 ), Japanese actor
- Kennosuke Watanabe ( born 1980 ), Japanese cross country skier and biathlete
- Kiiko Watanabe (c. 1935), Japanese table tennis player
- Koichiro Watanabe ( born 1944 ), Japanese politician
- Michio Watanabe (1923-1995), Japanese politicians
- Mikio Watanabe (born 1954 ), Japanese graphic designer and mezzotint
- Moriaki Watanabe ( born 1933), Japanese specialist in theater and French literature
- Nobuyuki Watanabe ( born 1930 ), Japanese aikido teacher
- Osamu Watanabe ( born 1940 ), Japanese wrestler
- Rikako Watanabe (born 1964 ), Japanese organist and composer
- Sadao Watanabe ( graphic artist ) ( 1913-1996 ), Japanese graphic designer
- Sadao Watanabe (musician ) ( born 1933), Japanese jazz saxophonist
- Seiichi Watanabe (c. 1970), Japanese badminton players
- Shin'ichi Watanabe (director) (born 1964 ), Japanese director
- Shin'ichi Watanabe ( athlete ) (born 1976 ), Japanese athlete
- Shin'ichiro Watanabe (born 1965 ), Japanese anime director and screenwriter
- Shinzō Watanabe ( born 1935 ), Japanese mathematician
- Tadashi Watanabe ( born 1944 ), Japanese computer architect
- Takashi Watanabe ( born 1957 ), Japanese director
- Tamae Watanabe ( born 1938 ), Japanese mountaineer
- Yoko Watanabe (1953-2004), Japanese singer (soprano )
- Yoshimi Watanabe ( born 1952 ), Japanese politician
- Yoshinori Watanabe (1941-2012), Yakuza and fifth Kumicho of Yamaguchi gumi
- Yoshitomo Watanabe (born 1976 ), Japanese manga artist
- Yoji Watanabe (1923-1983), Japanese architect
- Yukari Watanabe ( born 1981 ), Japanese speed skater
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