List of Famous people with last name Kimura

Sho Kimura is a Japanese professional boxer who held the WBO flyweight title from 2017 to 2018.

Yu Kimura is a retired Japanese professional boxer. He is the former World Boxing Council Light Flyweight champion.

Daisaku Kimura is a Japanese film director and cinematographer. He won the award for best director at the 33rd Japan Academy Prize for Mt. Tsurugidake.

Jiroemon Kimura was a Japanese supercentenarian who lived for 116 years and 54 days. He became the oldest verified man in history on 28 December 2012, when he surpassed the age of Christian Mortensen who had died in 1998. Kimura died from natural causes on 12 June 2013, at a hospital in his hometown of Kyōtango, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. He was the last verified living man born in the 19th century.

Isao Kimura , also known as Kō Kimura, was a Japanese actor. He appeared in several films directed by Akira Kurosawa. The first was Stray Dog (1949) as Yusa the criminal. Perhaps his most notable collaboration with Kurosawa was in Seven Samurai as the youngest of the samurai, Katsushiro. During his career he also appeared in several films directed by Mikio Naruse as well as appearing in the famous Lone Wolf and Cub film series. In addition to a film career spanning almost thirty years, Kimura founded and directed an acting company which ultimately went bankrupt. He died of esophageal cancer.

Yuta Kimura is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He played with the Chiba Lotte Marines from 2011 to 2012 and from 2014 to 2016.

Masao Kimura was Japanese professional wrestler, best known by his ring name Rusher Kimura . He was a five-time IWA World Heavyweight Champion, making him a five-time world champion.

Kan Kimura is a Japanese scholar of political studies and area studies. He is now a professor at Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University, Japan.

Ayaka Tanihara , born Ayaka Kimura October 30, 1981 and known professionally as Ayaka Nagate , is a Japanese actress and former singer. From 1998 to 2008, Nagate was part of Hello! Project as a member of the Japan-based girl group Coconuts Musume.

Madoka Kimura is a Japanese voice actress and singer.