Isamu
Isamu is a masculine Japanese given name.
Written forms
Isamu can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:- 勇, "courage" or "bravery"
- 勲, "merit"
- 敢, "gallantry"
- 武, "war"
People
- Isamu Akasaki, Japanese scientist
- Isamu Chō, Japanese general
- Isamu Fujisawa, Japanese racewalker
- Isamu Ihara, Japanese politician
- Isamu Imakake, director of Captain Tsubasa
- Isamu Imoto, Japanese politician
- Isamu Jordan American journalist, musician, and professor
- Kainoyama Isamu, Japanese sumo wrestler
- Isamu Kamikokuryo, Japanese video game artist
- Isamu Kashiide, Japanese army aviator and flying ace
- Isamu Kasuya, Japanese former professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
- Isamu Kenmochi, Japanese modernist designer
- Isamu Kosugi, Japanese actor and film director
- Isamu Masuda, Japanese physician
- Isamu Matsuura, Japanese former football player
- Isamu Mita Japanese rower
- Isamu Mochizuki, Japanese officer and ace fighter pilot
- Isamu Nagato, Japanese actor
- Isamu Noguchi, Japanese-American artist and landscape architect
- Isamu Osugi, Japanese mixed martial artist
- Isamu Sekiguchi, Japanese skier
- Isamu Shibayama, Peruvian-American civil rights activist
- Isamu Shiina Japanese professor
- Isamu Sonoda, Japanese retired Olympic champion judoka
- Isamu Sonoyama, Japanese politician
- Isamu Tajiri, Japanese physician
- Isamu Takashima Japanese rower
- Isamu Takeshita, Japanese Imperial Navy admiral
- Isamu Tanonaka, Japanese voice actor
- Isamu Togawa, Japanese writer and political commentator
- Isamu Tsuji, Japanese retired football player
- Isamu Ueda, Japanese politician
- Isamu Yamada or Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician
- Isamu Yamamoto, Japanese freestyle skateboarder
- Isamu Yokoyama, Japanese general
- Isamu Yoshii, Japanese poet and playwright
Fictional characters
- Isamu Nakane, a character in Obasan
- Isamu Alva Dyson, a character in Macross anime
- Isamu Ozu, a character in tokusatsu show Mahou Sentai Magiranger
- Isamu Nitta, a character in Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne video game
- Doll Isamu, a character in Super Doll Licca-chan
- Isamu Akai, a character from the Pocket Monsters manga
- Isamu Kurogane, a character from the Beast King GoLion series
- The Kindaichi Case Files#Characters, a character from The Kindaichi Case Files
- Abe Isamu, a character in Into the Breach
- Isamu, a ninja in the Heroscape board game