Minoru
Minoru is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Minoru Arakawa, Japanese former president of Nintendo of America
- Minol Araki, Japanese painter and industrial designer
- Minoru Asada, Japanese engineer
- Minoru Betsuyaku, Japanese postwar playwrights, novelists, and essayists
- Minoru Chiaki, Japanese actor
- Minoru Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler
- Minoru Furuya, Japanese manga artist
- Minoru Genda, Japanese naval general
- Minoru Hanafusa, Japanese footballer
- Minoru Hara, Japanese writer, Indologist, philologist, and a scholar
- Minoru Harada, Japanese Buddhist leader
- Minoru Hata, Japanese footballer
- Minoru Hatashita, Canadian judoka
- Minoru Higa, Japanese president and Grandmaster of the Kyudokan School
- Minoru Hirai, Japanese martial artist
- Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer
- Minoru Iizuka, Japanese wrestler
- Minoru Inaba, Japanese voice actor
- Minoru Inuzuka, Japanese film director and screenwriter
- Minoru Ito (disambiguation), multiple people
- Minoru Iwata, Japanese baseball pitcher
- Minoru Iwata (volleyball), Japanese former volleyball player
- Minoru Kamata, Japanese physician, writer, and humanitarian
- Minoru Kamata (baseball), Japanese professional baseball second baseman
- Minoru Kanehisa, Japanese bioinformatician
- Minoru Kawabata, Japanese artist
- Minoru Kawasaki (director), Japanese filmmaker
- Minoru Kawasaki (politician), Japanese politician
- Minoru Kawawada, Japanese master of Shotokan karate
- Minoru Kihara, Japanese politician
- Minoru Kihara (television personality), Japanese actor, voice actor, and weather forecaster
- Minoru Kimura, Brazilian kickboxer
- Minoru Kino, Japanese handball player
- Minoru Kitamura, Japanese historian
- Minoru Kitani, Japanese professional Go player
- Minoru Kiuchi, Japanese politician and former Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Minoru Kizawa, Japanese astronomer
- Minoru Kobata, Japanese footballer
- Minoru Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
- Minoru Koga, Japanese badminton player
- Minoru Kojima, Japanese musician
- Minoru Kubota, Japanese weightlifter
- Minoru Kunizawa, Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor
- Minoru Kushibiki, Japanese football player
- Minoru Makihara, Japanese business executive
- Minoru Matsuya, Japanese jazz pianist
- Minoru Miki, Japanese composer and artistic director
- Minoru Miki (cinematographer), Japanese cinematographer
- Minoru Minami, Japanese photographer
- Minoru Misawa, Japanese ice hockey player
- Minoru Mochizuki, Japanese martial artist
- Minoru Mori, Japanese businessman
- Minoru Mukaiya, Japanese musician
- Minoru Muraoka, Japanese shakuhachi player
- Minoru Murata, Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor
- Minoru Nagata, Japanese cross-country skier
- Minoru Nakamura, Japanese baseball player
- Minoru Nakano, Japanese ice hockey player
- Minoru Niizuma, Japanese abstract sculptor
- Minoru Nojima, Japanese classical pianist
- Minoru Ohira, Japanese artist
- Minoru Ōki, Japanese actor
- Minoru Okidoi, Japanese rugby union player
- Minoru Okita, Japanese sailor
- Minoru Ota, Japanese rear admiral
- Minoru Onoda, Japanese important member of the Gutai Group's younger generation
- Minoru Ozima, Japanese geochemist and Professor Emeritus
- Minoru Saito, Japanese solo yachtsman
- Minoru Sakata, Japanese photographer
- Minoru Sano (chef), Japanese celebrity chef
- Minoru Sano (figure skater), Japanese former competitive figure skater
- Minoru Sasaki, Japanese Lieutenant General in the Imperial Japanese Army
- Minoru Shibuya, Japanese film director
- Minoru Shiraishi, Japanese voice actor
- Minoru Shirota, Japanese scientist/inventor
- Minoru Suganuma, Japanese former football player
- Minoru Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
- Minoru Suzuki, Japanese politician
- Takarakuni Minoru, Japanese former sumo wrestle
- Minoru Takano, Japanese trade union leader
- Minoru Takase, Japanese comedian and actor
- Minoru Takeuchi, Japanese volleyball player
- Minoru Takita, Japanese trade union leader
- Minoru N. Tamura, Japanese botanist
- Minoru Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
- Minoru Tatsukawa, Japanese volleyball player and coach
- Minoru Terada, Japanese politician
- Minoru Tōjō, Japanese football referee
- Minoru Tomita, Japanese mathematician
- Minoru Torihada, Japanese comedian
- Minoru Uchida, Japanese actor and voice actor
- Umewaka Minoru I, Japanese eading actor in the Kanze school of Noh
- Minoru Wada, American citizen who was educated in Japan, who served as an Imperial Japanese Army junior officer
- Minoru Wakasa, Japanese ski jumper
- Minoru Watanabe, Japanese actor
- Minoru Yada, Japanese voice actor
- Minoru Yamamoto, Japanese classical composer
- Minoru Yamasaki, American architect who designed the World Trade Center
- Minoru Yanagida, Japanese politician
- Minoru Yano, Japanese officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy
- Minoru Yasui, American lawyer
- Minoru Yoneyama, Japanese businessman
- Minoru Yoshida, Japanese painter, sculptor, and performance artist
- Minoru Yoshimura, Japanese field hockey player
Fictional characters
- Minoru Edajima, from the anime Onegai Teacher
- Nico Minoru, from the Marvel Comics series Runaways
- Minoru “Minnow” Ito, from the novel We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
- Minoru Kohinata, from the manga Karate Shōkōshi Kohinata Minoru by Baba Yasushi
- Minoru, from the anime film Fireworks (2017 film)
- Minoru Mineta, from the manga and anime My Hero Academia
- Minoru Minorikawa, from the original 428: Shibuya Scramble
- Minoru Kageno from the light novel, manga and anime The Eminence in Shadow