Noboru (written: , , , , in hiragana or katakana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
, Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher , Japanese film actor known for his yakuza roles , Japanese former wrestler , Japanese professional baseball player , Japanese retired mixed martial artist , Japanese sumo wrestler , Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor , Japanese racewalker , Japanese anime director, anime producer and animator , Japanese rear admiral , Japanese composer , Japanese biologist, medical doctor and professor of medicine , official in the government of Japan's Okinawa Prefecture , Japanese actor , Japanese historian, writer and Professor Emeritus , Japanese manga artist , Japanese gynecologist , Japanese sumo wrestler , Japanese painter and writer , Japanese former politician , Japanese sumo wrestler , Japanese former politician , Japanese bodybuilder and professional wrestler , former professional sumo wrestler and current politician from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia , Japanese member of the House of Representatives of Japan , Japanese American politician , Japanese folklorist , Japanese film director and screenwriter , Japanese actor , Japanese academic and historian , Japanese physician , Japanese hammer thrower , Japanese manga artist , professional sumo wrestler from Ulan-Bator, Mongolia , Japanese singer, actor, and voice actor , Japanese professional baseball player , Japanese footballer , Japanese professional golfer , Japanese freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics , Japanese television and video game writer , Japanese retired mixed martial artist , Japanese politician and the 74th Prime Minister of Japan (1987 to 1989) , Japanese film director , Japanese field hockey player , Japanese freestyle swimmer Noboru Tokita (1923–2014), Japanese scientist , Japanese film producer , prize-winning Japanese author of fiction , Japanese boxer , former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer , Japanese photographer , Japanese swimmer , Japanese alpinist , the second kumicho, or Godfather, of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza gang in Japan , male Japanese light novel and game scenario author
Fictional characters , a character in the tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Blade , a character in the manga/anime series Great Teacher Onizuka
See also 4807 Noboru, a main-belt asteroid