Mamoru
Mamoru is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Marcus Mamoru Toji, American actor
- Mamoru Fujieda, Japanese composer
- Mamoru Fujisawa or Joe Hisaishi, Japanese composer best known for his work with animator Hayao Miyazaki
- Mamoru Hatakeyama, Japanese shogi player
- Mamoru Hosoda, Japanese film director
- Mamoru Imura, Japanese inventor, music composer, and Chief Executive Officer of VitaCraft and VitaCraft Japan
- Mamoru Inagaki, Olympics marksmen
- Mamoru Kanbe, Japanese anime director
- Mamoru Kuroiwa, Japanese boxer
- Mamoru Morimoto, Japanese middle-distance runner
- Mamoru Miyano, Japanese actor and voice actor
- Mamoru Mohri, Japanese astronaut
- Mamoru Nagano, Japanese mechanical designer, character designer, and manga artist
- Mamoru Nakamura, Palauan jurist
- Mamoru Oshii, Japanese film director
- Mamoru Samuragochi, Japanese composer
- Mamoru Sato, American modernist sculptor
- Mamoru Seki, Imperial Japanese Navy officer
- Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese Minister of Foreign affairs at the end of World War II
- Mamoru Sugiura, Japanese illustrator/manga artist
- Mamoru Takashima, Japanese ice hockey player
- Mamoru Takuma, Japanese criminal/murderer
- Mamoru Watanabe, Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor
- Mamoru Yamada, Japanese architect
- Mamoru Yamaguchi, Japanese mixed martial artist
Fictional characters
- Mamoru Akasaka, a character in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni visual novel and anime series
- Mamoru Amami, a character in The King of Braves GaoGaiGar
- Mamoru Chiba, a character in the Sailor Moon series
- Mamoru Endo, a character in the Inazuma Eleven
- Mamoru Itou, a character in From the New World
- Mamoru Itsuki, a character in Forbidden Siren 2
- Mamoru Izawa, a character in the Captain Tsubasa series
- Mamoru Kagemori, a character in Kage Kara Mamoru!
- Mamoru Kodai, a character in Space Battleship Yamato
- Mamoru Takamura, a character in the Hajime no Ippo series
- Mamoru Yoshimura, a character in Mamoru-kun ni Megami no Shukufuku wo!
- Mamoru-kun, the anthropomorphic canine mascot for Fukuoka Prefecture's disaster prevention, created by CyberConnect2. Mamoru-kun was originally planned to be the main character of Tail Concerto II, but due to the poor sales of the last game, it never came to fruition.