List of Famous people with last name Tamura

Eriko Tamura , sometimes credited only as Eriko, is a Japanese actress and singer. Her anime series Idol Densetsu Eriko (Legendary Idol Eriko) has been syndicated worldwide, airing in such countries as France, Italy, India and Spain. In live action series, she portrayed Princess Yaeko in the television show Heroes and Mai, the villainess in the feature film Dragonball Evolution.

Yamato Tamura is a Japanese figure skating coach and former competitor. As a single skater, he is a two-time Japanese national champion and represented Japan at the 1998 Winter Olympics, placing 17th.

Meimi Tamura is a Japanese actress and singer. She is a former member of the Hello! Project group Angerme.

Tatsuhiro Tamura ,. is a Japanese professional baseball catcher. He is currently playing for the Chiba Lotte Marines of the NPB.

Nao Tamura is a Japanese voice actress from Saitama Prefecture, Japan. She was originally represented by the Early Wing agency, but is now currently affiliated with Haikyō.

Naomi Tamura is a Japanese pop singer and songwriter who made her solo debut in 1994 with the song Jiyuu no Hashi. She is best known for singing theme songs for popular Anime series such as Yuzurenai Negai for Magic Knight Rayearth and Yuragu Koto Nai Ai for Get Backers. She is currently under contract with the recording label Airy Music Japan.

Yumi Tamura is a Japanese manga artist. Her debut short story, Ore-tachi no Zettai Jikan, was published in 1983 in Bessatsu Shōjo Comic and received the 1983 Shogakukan Grand Prize for new artists. Since then, she has completed more than 50 compiled volumes of short stories and continuing series. Popular works such as Tomoe ga Yuku! exemplify her work, but she made her reputation with the long-running shōjo action/adventure series Basara, for which she won the 1993 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga. Her latest series, 7 Seeds, for which she won a second Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga in 2003, is currently running in the anthology magazine Flowers in Japan. Chicago was her first series to be published in North America.

Kotaro Tamura was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, and a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (2002–2010). He was a member of Prime Minister Abe's government, serving as his Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office of Economic and Fiscal Policy, where he worked toward opening up Japanese businesses to foreign investment. A native of Tottori, he received his BA from Waseda University, his MBA from Keio University, his MA from Yale, and his LLM from Duke Law School. He was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2002.