Tomoko
Tomoko is a female Japanese given name.
Like many Japanese names, Tomoko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
- 友子 - "friendly child"
- 知子 - "knowing child"
- 智子 - "wise child"
- 朋子 - "friendly child"
People with the name
- Tomoko Abe, Japanese politician
- Tomoko Akane, Japanese judge
- Tomoko Akiya, Japanese voice actress
- Tomoko Fukumi, Japanese judoka
- Tomoko Fuse, Japanese origami writer
- Tomoko Hagiwara, Japanese swimmer
- Tomoko Honda, Japanese announcer
- Tomoko Hoshino, Japanese actress and essayist
- Tomoko Igata, Japanese motorcycle racer
- Tomoko Ikuta, Japanese actress
- Tomoko Ishida, Japanese sprinter
- Tomoko Ishimura, Japanese voice actress
- Tomoko Kami, Japanese politician
- Tomoko Kamimura, victim of Minamata disease and subject of the photo Tomoko and Mother in the Bath
- Tomoko Kanazawa, Japanese singer
- Tomoko Kaneda, Japanese voice actress
- Tomoko Kashiki, Japanese artist
- Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress
- Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer
- Tomoko Kitamura, Japanese professional wrestler
- BaBe, Japanese singer, part of 1980s J-Pop duo BaBe
- Tomoko Konoike, Japanese painter
- Tomoko Maruo, Japanese voice actress
- Tomoko Masuzawa, American philosopher
- Tomoko Matsunaga, Japanese women's footballer
- Tomoko Matsunashi, Japanese film director and actress
- Tomoko Miho, American graphic designer
- Tomoko Miyaguchi, Japanese professional wrestler
- Tomoko Moriguchi-Matsuno, American businesswoman
- Tomoko Muramatsu, Japanese women's footballer
- Tomoko Nagai, Japanese swimmer
- Tomoko Naka, Japanese voice actress
- Tomoko Nakajima, Japanese actress
- Tomoko Namba, Japanese businesswoman
- Tomoko Naraoka, Japanese actress
- Tomoko Ninomiya, Japanese manga artist
- Tomoko Ogawa, Japanese rock climber
- Tomoko Ohta, Japanese geneticist, pioneer of the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution
- Tomoko Oka, Japanese fencer
- Tomoko Okano, Japanese volleyball player
- Tomoko Onogi, Japanese swimmer
- Tomoko Owada, Japanese fencer
- Tomoko Sakagami, Japanese ice hockey player
- Tomoko Sasaki, Japanese lawyer, politician and writer
- Tomoko Sawada, Japanese photographer
- Tomoko Sugawara, Japanese harpist
- Tomoko Suzuki, Japanese women's footballer
- Tomoko Tabata, Japanese actress
- Tomoko Takahashi, Japanese artist
- Tomoko Tamura, Japanese politician
- Tomoko Tamura, Japanese table tennis player
- Tomoko Tanaka, Japanese ice dancer
- Tomoko Tane, Japanese singer, songwriter and arranger
- Tomoko Taniguchi, Japanese manga artist
- Tomoko Ukishima, Japanese politician
- Tomoko Yamaguchi, Japanese actress and singer
- Tomoko Yonemura, Japanese tennis player
- Tomoko Yoshida, Japanese writer
- Tomoko Yoshihara, Japanese volleyball player
- Tomoko Yoshino, Japanese president of RENGO
Fictional characters
- Tomoko Anabuki, a character from the Strike Witches light novel
- Tomoko Hayashi, a character from the tokusatsu show Himitsu Sentai Gorenger
- Tomoko Higashikata, a character from the manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
- Tomoko Kuroki, the main character from the manga series WataMote
- Tomoko Midorikawa, a character from the 2012 anime series Smile PreCure!
- Tomoko Nakaoka, the baby sister of Barefoot Gen
- Tomoko Nomura, a character from the manga and anime series Great Teacher Onizuka
- Tomoko Nozama, a character from the tokusatsu show Kamen Rider Fourze
- Tomoko Saeki, a character from the anime and manga series DNA²
- Tomoko Shiretoko, a character from the Boku no Hero Academia
- In Liu Cixin's science fiction novel Death's End the ambassador of an alien civilisation is called 智子 and appears in the shape of a Japanese woman. This is a double entendre between sophon and the Japanese name.