Yuriko
# Yuriko

Yuriko (ゆりこ, ユリコ, ゆり子) is a common Japanese given name, used for women.

## Possible writings

Yuriko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

* 百合子, "lily, child"
* 由里子, "reason, hometown, child"
* 由利子, "reason, benefit, child"
* 由李子, "reason, plum, child"
* 優梨子, "tenderness, pear, child"
* 有里子, "possess, hometown, child"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

## Real people

### with the given name Yuriko

* Yuriko Backes, a Luxembourgish diplomat and politician
* Alisa Yuriko Durbrow (ユリコ), a Japanese model, actress, and singer
* Yuriko Chiba (千羽 由利子), a Japanese animation director
* Yuriko Doi, choreographer and stage director
* Yuriko Fuchizaki (渕崎 ゆり子), a Japanese voice actress
* Yuriko Handa (百合子), a Japanese volleyball player
* Yuriko Hirohashi (広橋 百合子, 1916–1977), Japanese high jumper
* Yuriko Hishimi (ひし美 ゆり子), a Japanese actress
* Yuriko Ishida (石田 ゆり子), a Japanese actress
* Yuriko Kaida (貝田 由里子), a Japanese singer
* Yuriko Kajiya (百合子), a Japanese ballerina
* Yuriko Kikuchi (née Amemiya, 1920–2022), a Japanese American dancer
* Yuriko Kobayashi (祐梨子), a Japanese middle distance runner
* Yuriko Koike (小池 百合子), a Japanese politician
* Yuriko Kuronuma (ユリ子), a Japanese violinist
* Yuriko Miyamoto (宮本 百合子), a Japanese novelist
* Yuriko Nakamura (由利子), a Japanese composer and pianist
* Yuriko Shima (島 由理子), Japanese footballer
* Yuriko Shiratori (百合子), a Japanese gravure idol, tarento and actress
* Yuriko Takagi (高木 百合子), later Princess Mikasa of Japan
* Yuriko Takahashi (高橋 百合子, born 1973), Japanese weightlifter
* Yuriko Takeshita (竹下 百合子, born 1988), Japanese slalom canoeist
* Yuriko Yamaguchi (山口 由里子), (born 1965) a Japanese voice actress
* Yuriko Yamaguchi, a Japanese American sculptor
* Yuriko Yamamoto (山本 百合子), a Japanese voice actress
* Yuriko Yoshitaka (吉高 由里子), a Japanese actress

## Fictional characters

### with the given name Yuriko

* Yuriko Omega (百合子Ω), the commando unit of the Empire of the Rising Sun in the real-time strategy video game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
* Yuriko Oyama (ユリコ・オヤマ, also known as Lady Deathstrike), a Marvel Comics villain
* Yuriko Star (ユリコ), a character in the manga and anime series The Irresponsible Captain Tylor
* Yuriko Janetson is the name of the narrator's daughter in Joanna Russ's short story "When It Changed"
* Yuriko Suzuhina is the name of the cross dressing version of Accelerator by Kamijou Touma in the To Aru Majutsu no Index.
* Yuriko Edogawa, a character from Ultra Q
* Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow is a card from the Magic: The Gathering trading card game.
* Yuriko Nishinotouin, Head of the Traditional Culture Research Club at Hyakkou Private Academy in the anime Kakegurui.
