Ninomiya (surname)
# Ninomiya (surname)

Ninomiya (written: 二宮 or 二ノ宮 lit. "second shrine") is a Japanese family name.

## Notable people

### General

* Ayano Ninomiya, award-winning Japanese violinist
* Chūhachi Ninomiya, Japanese inventor and aviation pioneer
* Kazunari Ninomiya, member of the band Arashi and an actor in the 2006 film Letters from Iwo Jima
* Kent Ninomiya, first male Asian American to be a primary news anchor of a US television station
* Ninomiya Sontoku (born Ninomiya Kinjirō), prominent 19th-century Japanese agricultural leader, philosopher, moralist and economist, whose statues of him reading while walking are commonly seen near Japanese schools
* Tei Ninomiya, first Asian student at Smith College, later an administrator for YWCA in Japan
* Tomoko Ninomiya, Japanese manga artist

### Athletics

* Hiroshi Ninomiya (born in 1937), Japanese football player and manager
* Hiroshi Ninomiya (born in 1969), Japanese football player
* Hirokazu Ninomiya, Japanese football player and manager
* Jōkō Ninomiya, Grandmaster, founder and director of Enshin Karate
* Kazuhiro Ninomiya, 1976 Olympic gold medalist and two-time world judo champion
* Kazuhiro Ninomiya (footballer), Japanese football player
* Makoto Ninomiya, Japanese tennis player
* Miho Ninomiya, Japanese judoka

## Fictional characters

* Ninomiya, the main character in the light novel series Goshūshō-sama Ninomiya-kun
* Ninomiya-kun, of the fictional Sensei and Ninomiya in Minami-ke
* Rui Ninomiya (爾乃美家 累), a character in the anime series Gatchaman Crowds

## Eponyms

* Nielsen-Ninomiya theorem, a no-go theorem in physics by Holger Bech Nielsen and Masao Ninomiya
* Hōtoku Ninomiya Shrine, Japanese Shinto shrine in Odawara, Kanagawa dedicated to Ninomiya Sontoku
