Kimiko

Kimiko

Pronunciation	Kimiko
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	Senior, Noble, Empress
Region of origin	Japanese

Kimiko is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:

• Kimiko Burton (born 1964 or 1965) American attorney and government official
• Kimiko Date (伊達 公子; born 1970), Japanese former professional tennis player
• Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka, (born 1976) German-Japanese composer, pianist, and former Olympic weightlifter and powerlifter
• Kimiko Ezaka (江坂 君子; born 1943), Japanese former swimmer
• Fujiwara no Kimiko (西園寺公子; 1232–1304), Japanese Empress of Japan
• Kimiko Gelman (born 1966), Japanese American actress
• Kimiko Glenn (born 1989), Japanese-American actress and singer
• Kimiko Hahn (born 1955), American poet and professor
• Kimiko Hashimoto (橋本 きみ子; born 1953), Japanese women's basketball player
• Kimiko Hida (飛田 季実子; born 1977), Japanese handball goalkeeper
• Kimiko Hirata (平田 仁子; born 1970), Japanese climate activist
• Kimiko Ikegami (池上季実子; born 1959), Japanese-American actress
• Kimiko Itoh (伊藤 君子; born 1946), Japanese singer
• Kimiko Itō (位藤 紀美子; born 1945), Japanese pedagogue
• Kimiko Jinnai (陣内 貴美子; born 1964), Japanese badminton player
• Kimiko Kasai (笠井 紀美子; born 1945), Japanese retired jazz singer
• Kimiko Koyama (こやま きみこ; born 1979), Japanese voice actress and singer
• Kimiko Kurihara (栗原 君子; born 1946), Japanese politician
• Kimiko Mohri (毛利 公子; 1960–1990), Japanese leader and bassist of the group Sugar (trio)
• Kimiko Nishimoto (西本 喜美子; 1928–2025), Brazilian-born Japanese photographer and internet celebrity
• Kimiko O. Bowman (1927–2019), Japanese-American statistician
• Kimiko Okamoto (岡本 貴美子; born 1932 or 1933), Japanese athlete
• Kimiko Raheem (born 1999), Sri Lankan swimmer
• Kimiko Saitō (斉藤 貴美子; born 1977), Japanese voice actress and narrator
• Kimiko Sato (佐藤 公子; born 1946), Japanese former swimmer
• Kimiko Shiratori (白鳥 公子; born 1968), Japanese former football player
• Kimiko Soldati (born 1974), American diver
• Kimiko Suzuki (1929–1992), Japanese architect
• Kimiko Tsukada (塚田 紀美子; born 1937), Japanese artistic gymnast
• Kimiko Uehara (上原 きみ子; born 1946), Japanese manga artist
• Kimiko Yo (余 貴美子; born 1956), Japanese actress
• Kimiko Zakreski (born 1983) Canadian snowboarder
• Debra Kimiko Nishida, Canadian geologist
• Yasmine Kimiko Yamada (born 1997), Swiss figure skater

Fictional characters

• Kimiko, nicknamed "the Female (of the species)", a character from the comic The Boys and its TV adaptation
• Kimiko Ayasato (綾里 キミ子) (Morgan Fey), a character from the Ace Attorney franchise
• Kimiko Nakamura, secondary fictional character from the TV series Heroes
• Kimiko Nanasawa (七澤 希美子), main character from the webcomic Megatokyo
• Kimiko "Thunderbolt" Ross, character from the webcomic Dresden Codak
• Kimiko Tohomiko, character from the animated television series Xiaolin Showdown

See also

• Kimiko, a 1935 Japanese film directed by Mikio Naruse