Okamoto

Okamoto (written: 岡本 literally "hill base") is the 48th most common Japanese surname.[1] [2] Notable people with the surname include:

• Anri Okamoto (born 1994), fashion model and an actress in Japan
• Atsushi Okamoto (born 1981), professional Nippon Professional Baseball player
• Aya Okamoto (born 1982), actress and voice actress
• Ayako Okamoto (born 1951), Japanese professional golfer
• Chizuko Okamoto (born 1951), Japanese woman who was convicted of killing her own daughter
• Fuji Okamoto (1905–1984), Japanese boxer
• Hama Okamoto (born 1991), Japanese musician
• Haruko Okamoto (née Ishida, born 1945), Japanese figure skater
• Hayato Okamoto (disambiguation), multiple people
• Hideo Okamoto (岡本 秀雄, born 1948), Japanese rower
• Hideya Okamoto (born 1987), Japanese football player
• Hisashi Okamoto (born 1956), Japanese mathematician
• Hitoshi Okamoto, guitarist of the Japanese pop band Garnet Crow
• Keito Okamoto (born 1993), Japanese singer and member of the group Hey! Say! JUMP
• Kihachi Okamoto (1924–2005), Japanese film director
• Kiichi Okamoto (岡本 帰一, 1888–1930), Japanese painter and illustrator
• Kōzō Okamoto (born 1947), member of the Japanese armed militant group, Japanese Red Army (JRA)
• Kumiko Okamoto (born 1965), retired female tennis player from Japan
• Lynn Okamoto, Japanese manga artist
• Mariko Okamoto (born 1951), Japanese volleyball player
• Masahiro Okamoto (born 1983), Japanese football player
• Maya Okamoto (born 1967), in Shinjuku, Tokyo, is a voice actor
• Mayo Okamoto (born 1974), Japanese singer-songwriter
• Mike Okamoto (born Detroit, United States), is an American comic book artist and commercial illustrator
• Mitsunori Okamoto (born 1971), Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan
• Mori Okamoto, actor
• Natsuki Okamoto (born 1989), Japanese fashion model and actress
• Noboru Okamoto (岡本 登, born 1937), Japanese hammer thrower
• Nobuhiko Okamoto (born 1986), male Japanese voice actor from Tokyo, Japan
• Okamoto Kanoko (1889–1939), pen-name of a Japanese author, tanka poet, and Buddhism scholar
• Okamoto Kido (1872–1939), Japanese author
• Rai Okamoto (1927–1993), American architect, planner, and author
• Rei Okamoto (born 1991), Japanese model and actress
• Shosei Okamoto (岡本 將成, born 2000), Japanese footballer
• Tadashi Okamoto (岡本 正, born 1947), Japanese boxer
• Takeyuki Okamoto (岡本 武行, born 1967), Japanese footballer and manager
• Tao Okamoto, (born 1985), Japanese model and actress
• Tarō Okamoto (1911–1996), Japanese artist noted for abstract and avant-garde paintings and sculpture
• Tetsuo Okamoto (1932–2007), Brazilian swimmer
• Tomotaka Okamoto (disambiguation), multiple people
• Vincent Okamoto (1943–2020), American Army officer and judge
• Yasuaki Okamoto (born 1988), Japanese football player
• Okamoto Yasutaka (岡本 保孝, 1797–1878), Japanese kokugaku scholar
• Yoriko Okamoto (born 1971), first Japanese athlete to become an Olympic taekwondo medalist
• Yoichi Okamoto (1915–1985), American photographer
• Yoshiki Okamoto (born 1961), video game designer credited with producing many of Capcom's popular titles
• Yoshiro Okamoto (born 1943), Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party
• Yuki Okamoto (岡本 勇輝, born 1983), Japanese footballer
• Yukiko Okamoto (actress) (born 1979), Japanese actress
• Yukiko Okamoto (athlete) (born 1974), Japanese female distance runner