Akemi
Akemi is a unisex Japanese given name.
Written forms
Akemi can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:- , "bright, beauty"
- , "bright, fruit"
- , "bright, sea"
- , "bright, sign of the snake "
- , "vermilion, beauty"
- , "vermilion, not yet"
- , "vermilion, fruit"
- , "dawn, beauty"
- , "daybreak, view"
Notable people with the name
- Akemi Darenogare, Japanese fashion model and television personality
- Akemi Dawn Bowman, American author
- Akemi Ishii, Japanese singer
- Akemi Iwata, Japanese former football player
- Akemi Kanda, Japanese voice actress
- Akemi Kato, Japanese field hockey player
- Akemi Masuda, Japanese marathon runner
- Akemi Matsunae, Japanese manga artist
- Akemi Matsuno, Japanese marathon runner
- Akemi Morikawa, Japanese fencer
- Akemi Morimoto, Japanese cyclist
- Akemi Negishi, Japanese actress
- Akemi Nishiya, Japanese former professional tennis player
- Akemi Niwa, Japanese curler
- Akemi Noda, Japanese football player
- Akemi Okamura, Japanese voice actress and narrator
- Akemi Okazato, Japanese basketball player
- Akemi Satō (singer), Japanese singer
- Akemi Satō (voice actress), Japanese voice actress
- Akemi Sugiyama, Japanese volleyball player
- Tachibana Akemi, male Japanese poet and classical scholar
- Akemi Takada, Japanese artist and illustrator
- Akemi Taniguchi, Japanese Nordic combined skier
- Akemi Yamada, Japanese professional shogi player
- Akemi Yokoyama, Mexican professional footballer
Fictional characters
- Akemi, a character in the manga series Vagabond
- Akemi, a character in the video game Red Ninja: End of Honor
- Akemi, a character in the television series Xena: Warrior Princess
- Saikano#Main characters, a character in the manga series Saikano
- Akemi Kinoshita, a character in the cell phone novel Ōsama Game
- Akemi Miyano, a character in the manga series Case Closed
- Akemi Nakajima, protagonist of the novel series Digital Devil Story and its video game adaption, Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei
- Akemi Nakamura, a character in Sister Souljah's books, Midnight: A Gangster Love Story and Midnight and the Meaning of Love
- List of Maison Ikkoku characters#Akemi Roppongi, a character in the manga series Maison Ikkoku
- Akemi Sumizome, a character in the manga series Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha
- Akemi Togawa, a character in the 1966 film The War of the Gargantuas
- Akemi Yajima, a character in the manga series Salaryman Kintarō
- Akemi Aizawa, a character in the manga series Tomo-chan Is a Girl!
- Akemi, a character in David Mack's comic book series Kabuki
- Akemi Suzaku, a character in the anime series Great Pretender
- Homura Akemi, a character in the anime series ''Puella Magi Madoka Magica''