Noriko
Noriko is a Japanese given name for females.
Written forms
Forms in kanji can include:- 徳子, "benevolence child"
- 法子, "method, law child"
- 則子, "rule child"
- 紀子, "chronicle child"
- 教子, "teach child"
- 範子, "pattern child"
- 典子, "rule, precedent, ceremony child"
- 規子, "standard, measure child"
- 憲子, "constitution child"
- 稔子, "child who harvests wisdom and knowledge"
- 雅子, "beauty child"
- 希子, "hope child"
- 倫子, "ethics child"
- 矩子, "ruler child"
- 能理子, "child who is skilled in reason, logic"
- 乃理子, "child of reason"
People with the name
- Princess Noriko, Empress of Japan during the early Kamakura period
- Noriko Akatsuka, Japanese-born American scholar
- Noriko Anno, Japanese judoka
- Noriko Aota, Japanese tarento, actress and former idol singer
- Noriko Aoyama, Japanese former model and actress
- Noriko Arai, Japanese paralympic athlete
- Noriko Asano, Japanese swimmer
- Noriko Awaya, Japanese female soprano chanteuse and singer
- Noriko Baba, Japanese former football player
- Noriko Eguchi, Japanese film and television actress
- Noriko Fukuda, Japanese announcer
- Noriko Fukushima, Japanese freestyle skier
- Noriko Furuya, Japanese politician
- Noriko H. Arai, Japanese researcher in mathematical logic and artificial intelligence
- Noriko Harada, Japanese softball player
- Noriko Hayami, Japanese actress
- Noriko Hidaka, Japanese actress, voice actress, singer and narrator
- Noriko Higashide, Japanese actress
- Noriko Higuchi, Japanese long-distance runner
- Noriko Honma, Japanese actress
- Noriko Horiuchi, Japanese politician
- Noriko Ibaragi, Japanese poet, playwright, essayist, children's literature writer, and translator
- Noriko Ikeuchi, Japanese kickboxer
- Noriko Inada, Japanese swimmer
- Noriko Iriyama, Japanese actress and model
- Noriko Ishibashi, Japanese former football player
- Noriko Ishigaki, Japanese politician
- Noriko Ito, Japanese para-badminton player
- Noriko Kajiwara, Japanese Paralympic swimmer
- Noriko Kamachi, known as Seiko Matsuda, Japanese singer-songwriter and idol
- Noriko Kamakura, Japanese practitioner, researcher, and academic leader in occupational therapy
- Noriko Kariya, Canadian professional female boxer
- Noriko Katō, Japanese singer and actress
- Noriko Kawakami, Japanese electrical engineer
- Noriko Kawamura, Japanese teacher
- Noriko Kijima, Japanese gravure idol and actress
- Dream Dolphin, Japanese new age artist better known as Dream Dolphin
- Noriko Koiso, Japanese former basketball player
- Noriko Kosai, Japanese sport shooter
- Noriko Kubo, Japanese fencer
- Noriko Matsuda, Japanese volleyball player and Olympic champion
- Noriko Matsueda, Japanese former video game composer
- Noriko Matsumoto, Japanese singer and television personality
- Noriko Matsumoto , Japanese actress and stage director
- Noriko Mitose, Japanese singer
- Noriko Miyagawa, Japanese politician
- Noriko Mizoguchi, Japanese retired judoka
- Noriko Mizuta, Japanese scholar and poet
- Noriko Mochizuki, Japanese gymnast
- Noriko Munekata, Japanese judoka
- Noriko Nakagoshi, Japanese actress
- Noriko Nakayama, Japanese former badminton player
- Noriko Namiki, Japanese voice actress; see Idaten Jump
- Noriko Narazaki, Japanese retired judoka
- Noriko Narushima, Japanese politician and women's right activist
- Noriko Nishimoto, Japanese–Australian puppeteer
- Noriko Oda, Japanese figure skating coach and former competitor
- Noriko Ogawa , Japanese classical pianist
- Noriko Ogawa , Japanese actress and J-pop singer
- Noriko Ogiwara, Japanese fantasy writer
- Noriko Ohara, Japanese actress and narrator
- Noriko Ohara , Japanese artistic director and retired ballet dancer
- Noriko Osumi, Japanese neuroscientist
- Noriko Rikimaru, Japanese voice actress and narrator
- Noriko Sakai, Japanese singer and actress
- Noriko Sasaki, Japanese manga artist
- Noriko Sato, Japanese figure skating coach and former competitor
- Noriko Sawada Bridges Flynn, Japanese American writer and civil rights activist
- Noriko Senge, Japanese former princess of the Japanese Imperial Family
- Noriko Sengoku, Japanese film and television actress
- Noriko Shibasaki, Japanese voice actress
- Noriko Shibuta, Japanese rower
- Noriko Shiina, Japanese actress, tarento, and singer
- Noriko Shinohara, Japanese-American multi-disciplinary fine artist
- Noriko Shitaya, Japanese voice actress
- Noriko Suzuki, Japanese voice actress; see Doctor Neo Cortex
- Noriko T. Reider, Japanese author
- Noriko Tadano, Japanese tsugaru shamisen performer, composer and vocalist
- Noriko Taniguchi, Japanese rugby sevens player
- Noriko Tatsumi, Japanese pink film actress
- Noriko Toda, Japanese former female speed skater
- Noriko Tsuiki, Japanese textile artist and weaver
- Noriko Tsukase, Japanese voice actress and chanson singer
- Noriko Ueda, Japanese jazz bassist, composer and arranger
- Noriko Uemura, Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator
- Noriko Watanabe, Japanese actress and singer
- Noriko Yamaji, Japanese softball player
- Noriko Yamamoto, Japanese swimmer
- Noriko Yamanaka, Japanese female table tennis player
- Noriko Yamashita, Japanese former volleyball player
- Tujiko Noriko, Japanese musician, actor and director
Fictional characters
- Noriko Ashida who also goes by the codename Surge from New X-Men
- Noriko Hirayama, a character of the Yasujirō Ozu film, Tokyo Story
- Noriko Kawada, a character of Digimon
- Noriko Kinoshita, a character of Juvenile
- Noriko Nakagawa, a main character of the book and film Battle Royale
- Noriko Nijo, a character of Maria-sama ga Miteru
- Noriko from Usagi Yojimbo, the villain of the "Treasure of the Mother of Mountains" arc
- Noriko Shimabara, titular character of the film Noriko's Dinner Table
- Noriko Takaya, a character of Gunbuster
- Noriko Ukai, a character of the manga Gravitation
- Noriko Ono, one of the main character's daughters in An Artist of the Floating World
- Noriko Noshimuri, a character of the television series Hawaii Five-0
- Noriko Momoi, a friend character of Mami Sakura from Esper Mami
- Noriko Hibino, a character of the video game ''Generation Xth''