Shigeru (written: , , , in hiragana or in katakana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
, Japanese long-distance runner , Japanese professional midget wrestler , Japanese actor , Japanese painter , Japanese former volleyball player , Japanese professional Go player , Japanese architect , Japanese voice actor , Japanese baseball second baseman , Japanese politician , Japanese karateka , Japanese sport wrestler , Japanese career military officer and lieutenant general , Japanese admiral and Chief , Japanese general , Japanese prominent politician , Japanese mathematician , Japanese ophthalmologist, surgeon and amateur astronomer , Japanese politician , Japanese politician , Japanese socialist politician , Japanese military officer , Japanese painter and printmaker , Japanese actor and singer , Japanese musician, actor and agricultural entrepreneur , Japanese professional baseball player , Japanese composer and conductor , Japanese lightweight freestyle wrestler , Japanese artistic gymnast , Japanese general , Japanese Ainu activist , Japanese police officer , Japanese anime producer , Japanese baseball player , Japanese cinematographer , Japanese rugby player , Japanese actor , Japanese gymnast , Japanese children's poet, children's song writer, fairy tale writer and educator , Japanese baseball shortstop, second baseman and coach , Japanese singer and actor , Japanese rower , Japanese former professional baseball infielder and manager , expert on yokai and creator of the popular manga series Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro, and others , Japanese voice actor , Japanese baseball player , Japanese former football player , Japanese painter , Japanese mathematician , Japanese actress , Japanese voice actor , Japanese legal scholar, sociologist, and Christian thinker , Japanese renju player , Japanese artist , Japanese historian of science , Japanese political scientist , Japanese painter and artist , Japanese politician , Japanese professional golfer , Japanese jurist, judge on the International Court of Justice from 1976 to 2003 , Japanese video game director, designer, and developer , Japanese retired judoka , Japanese President of the Japan Community Health Care Organization , Japanese visual artist , Japanese former professional tennis player , Japanese karateka , Japanese mixed martial arts promoter , Japanese government official , Japanese former football player , Japanese general , Japanese ice hockey player , Japanese ichthyologist , Japanese retired long-distance runner , Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball infielder , Japanese professional baseball pitcher and coach , Japanese bodybuilding champion , Japanese manga artist , Japanese musician, songwriter and guitarist , Japanese long jumper , Japanese former general manager of the Yokohama DeNA BayStars , Japanese football player Shigeru Takashina (1943–2013), Japanese karateka , Japanese photographer , Japanese illustrator, animator, filmmaker and manga artist , Japanese author , Japanese actor , Japanese professional golfer , Japanese politician , Japanese anime storyboard artist and director , Japanese automotive engineer , Japanese film score composer , Japanese actor and voice actor , Japanese film producer and journalist , Japanese murderer, former hostess club owner and possible serial killer , Japanese footballer , Japanese diplomat and politician, Prime Minister , Japanese bureaucrat and politician
Fictional characters , from Akagi , a character from Neon Genesis Evangelion Emperor Shigeru, a character in the Ranger's Apprentice series by John Flanagan. , protagonist of Kamen Rider Stronger , a character from Yakitate!! Japan , the Japanese name of Gary Oak, a Pokémon character (named after Shigeru Miyamoto) Otori Shigeru, a character in Lian Hearn's trilogy Tales of the Otori Shigeru Yahaba, a character from Haikyu!!