Nobuko

is a feminine Japanese given name. Although the name is always romanized the same way, the kanji characters can be different.

Written forms

Forms in kanji can include:

• 信子, "trust, child"
• 伸子, "to lengthen, child"
• 延子, "to prolong, child"
• 暢子, "extend/stretch, relax/child"
• 宜子, "good, child"

People

• Nobuko Albery, a Japanese author, theatrical producer and the widow of English theatrical impresario, Sir Donald Albery
• Princess Nobuko (Japanese romanization: Fumi-no-miya Nobuko Naishinnō, 富美宮允子内親王), the 8th daughter of Emperor Meiji
• Nobuko Asō (麻生信子), later Princess Tomohito of Mikasa (寛仁親王妃信子)
• , Japanese female former long-distance runner
• , Japanese cross-country skier
• , Japanese actress and singer
• , Japanese classical violist and chamber musician
• , Japanese politician
• Nobuko JoAnne Miyamoto (born 1939), Japanese-American folk singer, songwriter, author, and activist
• , Japanese writer
• , Japanese athlete
• , Japanese football player
• , Japanese socialite
• , Japanese actress
• , Japanese member of the Japanese Communist Party
• , Japanese pianist
• , Japanese architect
• , Japanese neuroscientist
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese rower
• , Japanese actress
• , Japanese author
• , Japanese ambassador to Denmark from 1980 until 1983
• , Japanese first woman architect
• , Japanese artist based in London
• , Japanese speed skater
• , Japanese computer scientist
• , Japanese novelist who was active in the Taishō and Shōwa periods of Japan

Fictional characters

• Nobuko Ishihara (石原信子), a character in the manga Love Com
• Nobuko Kotani (小谷 信子), the titular character of the Japanese television drama Nobuta wo Produce
• Nobuko Komiyama (小宮山信子), the titular character of the film Nobuko (1940 film), one of many adaptations of a novel by Bunroku Shishi