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'''Nobuo''' (written: {{Nihongo2|信男}}, {{Nihongo2|信雄}}, {{Nihongo2|伸郎}}, {{Nihongo2|伸夫}}, {{Nihongo2|宣生}}, {{Nihongo2|のぶお}} in [[hiragana]] or {{Nihongo2|ノブオ}} in [[katakana]]) is a masculine, Japanese [[given name]]. Notable people with the name include:
*{{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Amayake]]|天宅 信雄||born 1934}}, Japanese professional Go player
*{{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Aoyagi]]|青柳 信雄||1903–1976}}, Japanese film director and film producer
*{{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Chigusa]]|千種 信雄||born 1948}}, Japanese basketball player
*{{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Fujita]]|藤田 信雄||1911–1997}}, Warrant Flying Officer of the Imperial Japanese Navy
*{{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Hattori]]|服部 信雄||born 1947}}, Japanese basketball player
*{{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Ikeda]]|池田 信夫||born 1953}}, Japanese economist
*{{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Kaiho]]|海保 宣生||1941–2015}}, Japanese basketball player
*{{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Kaneko]]|金子 信雄||1923–1995}}, Japanese actor
*{{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Kawai]]|川合 伸旺||1932–2006}}, Japanese actor
*{{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Kishi]]|岸 信夫||born 1959}}, Japanese politician
* {{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Kojima]]|小島 信夫||1915–2006}}, Japanese writer
*{{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Kyo]]|姜 暢雄||born 1979}}, Japanese actor
*{{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Matsuno]]|松野 信夫||born 1951}}, Japanese politician
*{{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Mii]]|三井 信雄||1931–2015}}, Japanese computer pioneer
* {{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Kanda]]|神田 信夫||1921–2003}}, Japanese historian
* {{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Nakagawa]]|中川 信夫||1905–1984}}, Japanese film director
*{{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Nakamura]]|中村 伸郎||1908–1991}}, Japanese actor
*{{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Nashiro]]|名城 信男||born 1981}}, Japanese boxer
*{{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Noda]]|野田 信夫||1893–1993}}, Japanese business scholar
* {{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Okishio]]|置塩 信雄||1927–2003}}, Japanese economist
*{{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Sasaki]]|佐々木 信男||born 1956}}, Japanese handball player
* {{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Satō]]|佐藤 信夫||born 1942}}, former Japanese figure skater and current coach
*{{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Sekine]]|関根 伸夫||1942–2019}}, Japanese sculptor
* [[Nobuo Suga]] (born 1933), Japanese biologist, known for hearing research
* {{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Tanaka]]|田中 伸男||born 1950}}, former executive director of the International Energy Agency
* [[Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi]] (1911–1943), war participant
* {{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Tobita]]|飛田 展男||born 1959}}, Japanese voice actor
* {{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Uematsu]]|植松 伸夫||born 1959}}, Japanese composer of video game music
*{{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Yana]]|八名 信夫||born 1935}}, Japanese film actor
* {{Nihongo|[[Nobuo Yoneda]]|米田 信夫||1930–1996}}, Japanese mathematician and computer scientist
==See also==
* [[Ina Nobuo Award]], an annual award given by Nikon Salon
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[[Category:Japanese masculine given names]]
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