Akemi is a unisex Japanese given name.
Written forms Akemi can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
, "bright, beauty" , "bright, fruit" , "bright, sea" , "bright, sign of the snake (Chinese zodiac)" , "vermilion, beauty" , "vermilion, not yet" , "vermilion, fruit" , "dawn, beauty" , "daybreak, view"
The name can also be written in hiragana あけみ or katakana アケミ.
Notable people with the name , Japanese fashion model and television personality Akemi Dawn Bowman, American author , Japanese singer , Japanese former football player , Japanese voice actress , Japanese field hockey player , Japanese marathon runner , Japanese manga artist , Japanese marathon runner , Japanese fencer , Japanese cyclist , Japanese actress Akemi Nishiya (born 1965), Japanese former professional tennis player , Japanese curler , Japanese football player , Japanese voice actress and narrator , Japanese basketball player , Japanese singer , Japanese voice actress , Japanese volleyball player , male Japanese poet and classical scholar , Japanese artist and illustrator , Japanese Nordic combined skier , Japanese professional shogi player Akemi Yokoyama (born 1999), Mexican professional footballer
Fictional characters , a character in the manga series Vagabond , a character in the video game Red Ninja: End of Honor Akemi, a character in the television series Xena: Warrior Princess , a character in the manga series Saikano , a character in the cell phone novel Ōsama Game , a character in the manga series Case Closed , protagonist of the novel series Digital Devil Story and its video game adaption, Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei Akemi Nakamura, a character in Sister Souljah's books, Midnight: A Gangster Love Story and Midnight and the Meaning of Love , a character in the manga series Maison Ikkoku , a character in the manga series Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha , a character in the 1966 film The War of the Gargantuas , a character in the manga series Salaryman Kintarō , a character in the manga series Tomo-chan Is a Girl! Akemi, a character in David Mack's comic book series Kabuki , a character in the anime series Great Pretender , a character in the anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica
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