Noriko

is a Japanese given name for females.

Written forms

Forms in kanji can include:

• 徳子, "benevolence child"
• 法子, "method, law child"
• 則子, "rule child"
• 紀子, "chronicle child"
• 教子, "teach child"
• 範子, "pattern child"
• 典子, "rule, precedent, ceremony child"
• 規子, "standard, measure child"
• 憲子, "constitution child"
• 稔子, "child who harvests wisdom and knowledge"
• 雅子, "beauty child"
• 希子, "hope child"
• 倫子, "ethics child"
• 矩子, "ruler child"
• 能理子, "child who is skilled in reason, logic"
• 乃理子, "child of reason"

People with the name

• , Empress of Japan during the early Kamakura period
• Noriko Akatsuka (1937–2016), Japanese-born American scholar
• , Japanese judoka
• , Japanese tarento, actress and former idol singer
• , Japanese former model and actress
• , Japanese paralympic athlete
• , Japanese swimmer
• , Japanese female soprano chanteuse and singer
• , Japanese former football player
• , Japanese film and television actress
• , Japanese announcer
• , Japanese freestyle skier
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese researcher in mathematical logic and artificial intelligence
• , Japanese softball player
• , Japanese actress
• , Japanese actress, voice actress, singer and narrator
• , Japanese actress
• , Japanese long-distance runner
• , Japanese actress
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese poet, playwright, essayist, children's literature writer, and translator
• , Japanese kickboxer
• , Japanese swimmer
• , Japanese actress and model
• , Japanese former football player
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese para-badminton player
• , Japanese Paralympic swimmer
• , known as Seiko Matsuda, Japanese singer-songwriter and idol
• , Japanese practitioner, researcher, and academic leader in occupational therapy
• , Canadian professional female boxer
• , Japanese singer and actress
• , Japanese electrical engineer
• Noriko Kawamura, Japanese teacher
• , Japanese gravure idol and actress
• , Japanese new age artist better known as Dream Dolphin
• , Japanese former basketball player
• , Japanese sport shooter
• , Japanese fencer
• , Japanese volleyball player and Olympic champion
• , Japanese former video game composer
• , Japanese singer and television personality
• , Japanese actress and stage director
• , Japanese singer
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese retired judoka
• , Japanese scholar and poet
• , Japanese gymnast
• , Japanese judoka
• , Japanese actress
• , Japanese former badminton player
• , Japanese voice actress; see Idaten Jump
• , Japanese retired judoka
• , Japanese politician and women's right activist
• , Japanese–Australian puppeteer
• , Japanese figure skating coach and former competitor
• , Japanese classical pianist
• , Japanese actress and J-pop singer
• , Japanese fantasy writer
• , Japanese actress and narrator
• , Japanese artistic director and retired ballet dancer
• , Japanese neuroscientist
• , Japanese voice actress and narrator
• , Japanese singer and actress
• , Japanese manga artist
• , Japanese figure skating coach and former competitor
• Noriko Sawada Bridges Flynn (1923–2003), Japanese American writer and civil rights activist
• , Japanese former princess of the Japanese Imperial Family
• , Japanese film and television actress
• , Japanese voice actress
• , Japanese rower
• , Japanese actress, tarento, and singer
• Noriko Shinohara (born 1953), Japanese-American multi-disciplinary fine artist
• , Japanese voice actress
• , Japanese voice actress; see Doctor Neo Cortex
• Noriko T. Reider, Japanese author
• , Japanese tsugaru shamisen performer, composer and vocalist
• , Japanese rugby sevens player
• , Japanese pink film actress
• , Japanese former female speed skater
• , Japanese textile artist and weaver
• , Japanese voice actress and chanson singer
• , Japanese jazz bassist, composer and arranger
• , Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator
• , Japanese actress and singer
• , Japanese softball player
• , Japanese swimmer
• , Japanese female table tennis player
• , Japanese former volleyball player
• , Japanese musician, actor and director

Fictional characters

• Noriko Ashida who also goes by the codename Surge from New X-Men
• Noriko Hirayama, a character of the Yasujirō Ozu film, Tokyo Story (the daughter-in-law)
• Noriko Kawada, a character of Digimon
• Noriko Kinoshita, a character of Juvenile
• Noriko Nakagawa, a main character of the book and film Battle Royale
• Noriko Nijo, a character of Maria-sama ga Miteru
• Noriko from Usagi Yojimbo, the villain of the "Treasure of the Mother of Mountains" arc
• Noriko Shimabara, titular character of the film Noriko's Dinner Table
• Noriko Takaya, a character of Gunbuster
• Noriko Ukai, a character of the manga Gravitation
• Noriko Ono, one of the main character's daughters in An Artist of the Floating World
• Noriko Noshimuri, a character of the television series Hawaii Five-0
• Noriko Momoi, a friend character of Mami Sakura from Esper Mami
• Noriko Hibino, a character of the video game '

• Houko Kuwashima (桑島 法子), Japanese voice actress and singer