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 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 , a character in the anime series Gatchaman Crowds , a character from Little Battlers Experience WARS , a character from Little Battlers Experience WARS Youhei Ninomiya, one of the students in the audio-drama series ”Tetro Danganronpa Blue”
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
See also Ninomiya (disambiguation), especially for place-related uses