Shigeru

Shigeru (written: 茂, 繁, 滋, しげる in hiragana or シゲル in katakana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:

• Shigeru Ban (坂 茂, born 1957), a Japanese architect
• Shigeru Chiba (千葉 繁, born 1954), a Japanese voice actor
• Shigeru Egami (江上 茂, 1912–1981), Japanese karateka
• Shigeru Endo (遠藤 茂, born 1945), Japanese sport wrestler
• Shigeru Izumi (泉 茂, 1922–1995), Japanese painter and printmaker
• Shigeru Izumiya (泉谷 しげる, born 1948), Japanese actor and singer
• Shigeru Kasamatsu (笠松 茂, born 1947), Japanese artistic gymnast
• Shigeru Kayano (萱野 茂, 1926 – 2006), Japanese Ainu activist
• Shigeru Kobayashi (小林 繁, 1952–2010), Japanese baseball player
• Shigeru Miyagawa (宮川 滋, born 1948), Japanese rower
• Shigeru Miyamoto (宮本 茂, born 1952), a video game designer for Nintendo, notable for creating Mario among many other characters
• Shigeru Mizuki (水木 しげる, 1922 – 2015), expert on yokai and creator of the popular manga series Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro, and others
• Shigeru Morikasa (森笠 繁, born 1976), Japanese baseball player
• Shigeru Nakahara (中原 茂, born 1961), Japanese voice actor
• Narahara Shigeru (奈良原 繁, 1834–1918), Japanese politician
• Shigeru Oyama (大山 茂, 1936–2016), Japanese karateka
• Shigeru Sawada (沢田 茂, 1887–1980), Japanese general
• Shigeru Shimada (島田 繁, born 1935), Japanese ice hockey player
• Shigeru Takashina (1943–2013), Japanese karateka
• Shigeru Uehara (上原 繁, born 1947), a Japanese automotive team lead, designer, and engineer at Honda, notable for his work on Honda NSX and Honda S2000 projects
• Shigeru Umebayashi (梅林 茂, born 1951), a Japanese film score composer
• Shigeru Yoshida (吉田 茂, 1878 – 1967), Japanese diplomat and politician, former Prime Minister

Fictional characters[]

• Shigeru Akagi (赤木 しげる), from Akagi
• Shigeru Aoba (青葉 シゲル), a character from Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Shigeru Jou/Kamen Rider Stronger (城 茂/仮面ライダーストロンガー)
• Shigeru Kanmuri (冠 茂), a character from Yakitate!! Japan
• Shigeru Okido (オーキド・シゲル), the Japanese name of Gary Oak, a Pokémon character (named after Shigeru Miyamoto)
• Otori Shigeru, a character in Lian Hearn's popular Tales of the Otori trilogy
• Shigeru Yahaba, a character from Haikyu!!

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