Okamoto

{{Infobox surname | name = Okamoto | image= | imagesize= | caption= | pronunciation = Okamoto | meaning = ''hill base'' (岡本) | region = Japanese | origin = Japanese | variant = }} {{nihongo|'''Okamoto'''|岡本||{{IPA|ja|o.ka.mo.to}},<ref>{{cite book|script-title=ja:新明解日本語アクセント辞典|edition=2nd|editor-last=Kindaichi|editor-first=Haruhiko|editor-link=Haruhiko Kindaichi|editor-last2=Akinaga|editor-first2=Kazue|publisher=Sanseidō|date=10 March 2025|lang=ja}}</ref> {{lit|hill base}}}} is the 48th most common Japanese surname.<ref>[http://www.jref.com/japan/society/japanese_family_names02.shtml research work by Tadashige Murayama, no date when research completed.]</ref> <ref name="japantimes">{{cite web|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2009/10/11/to-be-sorted/japans-top-100-most-common-family-names/#.UYKZxrWG2og|title=Japan's top 100 most common family names|website=The Japan Times|date=2009-10-11|accessdate=2017-09-06}}</ref> Notable people with the surname include:

*{{Nihongo|Anri Okamoto|岡本杏理||born 1994}}, Japanese fashion model and actress *{{Nihongo|Atsushi Okamoto|岡本篤志||born 1981}}, professional Nippon Professional Baseball player *{{Nihongo|Aya Okamoto|岡本綾||born 1982}}, Japanese actress and voice actress *{{Nihongo|Ayako Okamoto|岡本綾子||born 1951}}, Japanese professional golfer *{{Nihongo|Chizuko Okamoto|岡本千鶴子||born 1951}}, Japanese woman who was convicted of killing her own daughter *{{Nihongo|Fuji Okamoto|岡本不二||1905–1984}}, Japanese boxer *{{Nihongo|Hama Okamoto|ハマ・オカモト||born 1991}}, Japanese musician *Haruko Okamoto (née Ishida, born 1945), Japanese figure skater *Hayato Okamoto (disambiguation), multiple people *{{Nihongo|Hideo Okamoto|岡本秀雄||born 1948}}, Japanese rower *{{Nihongo|Hideya Okamoto|岡本英也||born 1987}}, Japanese football player *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Okamoto|岡本久||born 1956}}, Japanese mathematician *{{Nihongo|Hitoshi Okamoto|岡本仁志)}}, guitarist of the Japanese pop band Garnet Crow *{{Nihongo|Okamoto Kanoko|岡本かの子||1889–1939}}, pen-name of a Japanese author, tanka poet, and Buddhism scholar *{{Nihongo|Kazuma Okamoto|岡本和真||born 1996}}, Japanese professional baseball player *{{Nihongo|Keito Okamoto|岡本圭人||born 1993}}, Japanese singer and member of the group Hey! Say! JUMP *{{Nihongo|Kido Okamoto|岡本綺堂||1872–1939}}, Japanese author *{{Nihongo|Kihachi Okamoto|岡本喜八||1924–2005}}, Japanese film director *{{Nihongo|Kiichi Okamoto|岡本帰一||1888–1930}}, Japanese painter and illustrator *{{Nihongo|Kōzō Okamoto|岡本公三||born 1947}}, member of the Japanese armed militant group, Japanese Red Army (JRA) *{{Nihongo|Kumiko Okamoto|岡本久美子||born 1965}}, retired female tennis player from Japan *{{Nihongo|Lynn Okamoto|岡本倫||born 1970}}, Japanese manga artist *{{Nihongo|Mari Okamoto|岡本茉利||born 1954}}, Japanese actress and voice actress *{{Nihongo|Mariko Okamoto|岡本眞理子||born 1951}}, Japanese volleyball player *{{Nihongo|Masahiro Okamoto|岡本昌弘||born 1983}}, Japanese football player *{{Nihongo|Maya Okamoto|岡本麻弥||born 1967}}, Japanese actress, voice actress and singer *{{Nihongo|Mayo Okamoto|岡本真夜||born 1974}}, Japanese singer-songwriter *Mike Okamoto (born Detroit, United States), American comic book artist and commercial illustrator *{{Nihongo|Misugu Okamoto|岡本碧優||born 2006}}, Japanese skateboarder *{{Nihongo|Mitsunari Okamoto|岡本三成||born 1965}}, Japanese politician of Komeito *{{Nihongo|Mitsunori Okamoto|岡本充功||born 1971}}, Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan *{{Nihongo|Natsuki Okamoto (television personality)|岡本夏生||born 1965}}, Japanese tarento, race queen and gravure idol *{{Nihongo|Natsuki Okamoto|岡本奈月||born 1989}}, Japanese fashion model and actress *{{Nihongo|Natsumi Okamoto|岡本夏美||born 1998}}, Japanese actress and fashion model *{{Nihongo|Noboru Okamoto|岡本登||born 1937}}, Japanese hammer thrower *{{Nihongo|Nobuhiko Okamoto|岡本信彦||born 1986}}, Japanese voice actor *Rai Okamoto (1927–1993), American architect, planner, and author *{{Nihongo|Rei Okamoto|岡本玲||born 1991}}, Japanese model and actress *{{Nihongo|Rina Okamoto|岡本璃奈||born 1994}}, Japanese kickboxer *{{Nihongo|Shosei Okamoto|岡本將成||born 2000}}, Japanese footballer *{{Nihongo|Tadashi Okamoto|岡本正||born 1947}}, Japanese boxer *{{Nihongo|Takeyuki Okamoto|岡本武行||born 1967}}, Japanese footballer and manager *{{Nihongo|Tao Okamoto|岡本多緒||born 1985}}, Japanese model and actress *{{Nihongo|Tarō Okamoto|岡本太郎||1911–1996}}, Japanese artist noted for abstract and avant-garde paintings and sculpture *Tetsuo Okamoto (1932–2007), Brazilian swimmer *Tomotaka Okamoto (disambiguation), multiple people *Vincent Okamoto (1943–2020), American Army officer and judge *{{Nihongo|Yasuaki Okamoto|岡本賢明||born 1988}}, Japanese football player *{{Nihongo|Okamoto Yasutaka|岡本保孝||1797–1878}}, Japanese ''kokugaku'' scholar *Yoichi Okamoto (1915–1985), American photographer *{{Nihongo|Yoriko Okamoto|岡本依子||born 1971}}, first Japanese athlete to become an Olympic taekwondo medalist *{{Nihongo|Yoshiki Okamoto|岡本吉起||born 1961}}, video game designer credited with producing many of Capcom's popular titles *{{Nihongo|Yoshiro Okamoto|岡本芳郎||born 1943}}, Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party *{{Nihongo|Yuki Okamoto|岡本勇輝||born 1983}}, Japanese footballer *Yukiko Okamoto (disambiguation), multiple people

==See also== *6244 Okamoto, a main-belt asteroid *Okamoto Station (Hyōgo), railway station of the Hankyu Kobe Line in Higashinada-ku, Kobe *Okamoto–Uchiyama cryptosystem, discovered in 1998 by T. Okamoto and S. Uchiyama *Okamoto's, a rock band whose members each adopted stage names with the surname Okamoto *Taro Okamoto Award, award for Contemporary Art (TARO Award)

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Category:Japanese-language surnames