Kumiko

Kumiko (Japanese: くみこ, クミコ) is a feminine Japanese given name.

Kumiko can be written using different kanji and can mean:

• 久美子, "forever, beauty, child"
• 空見子, "sky, see, child"
• 公美子, "public, beauty, child"
• 來未子, "come, not, child"
• 功美子, "success, beauty child"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

• Kumiko Aihara (相原 久美子; born 1947), Japanese politician
• Kumiko Akiyoshi (秋吉 久美子; born 1954), Japanese actress
• Kumiko Asō (麻生 久美子; born 1978), Japanese actress
• Kumiko Goto (後藤 久美子; born 1974), Japanese actress, model, and former singer
• Kumiko Goto-Azuma, Antarctic palaeoclimatologist and glaciologist
• Kumiko Haba (羽場 久美子; born 1952), Japanese Professor of International Politics
• Kumiko Hayakawa (早川 久美子; born 1971), Japanese politician
• Kumiko Hayashi (林 久美子; born 1972), Japanese politician
• Kumiko Higa (比嘉 久美子; born 1978), Japanese voice actress
• Kumiko Iijima (飯島 久美子; born 1982), Japanese former tennis player
• Kumiko Ikeda (井村 久美子; born 1981), Japanese long jumper
• Kumiko Kashiwagi (柏木 久美子; born 1978), Japanese alpine skier
• Kumiko Koishi (小石 公美子; born 1995), Japanese former idol of the idol group SKE48
• Kumiko Koiwai (小岩井 久美子; born 1975), Japanese former competitive figure skater
• Kumiko Nagasawa (長沢 久美子; born 1960), Japanese guitarist of the idol trio Sugar (trio)
• Kumiko Nakano (中野 公美子; born 1977), Japanese idol and actress
• Kumiko Nishihara (西原 久美子; born 1965), Japanese voice actress
• Kumiko Nishioka (西岡 久美子; born 1954), Japanese mathematician
• Kumiko Ōba (大場 久美子; born 1960), Japanese actress, singer, and psychological counselor
• Kumiko Ogihara Japanese male curler and coach
• Kumiko Ogura (小椋 久美子; born 1983), Japanese badminton player
• Kumiko Okada (岡田 久美子; born 1991), Japanese racewalker
• Kumiko Okae (岡江 久美子; 1956–2020), Japanese actress, voice actress, and television presenter
• Kumiko Okamoto (岡本 久美子; born 1965), Japanese retired female tennis player
• Kumiko Omura (大村 久美子; born 1970), Japanese composer
• Kumiko Ōsugi (大杉 久美子; born 1951), Japanese J-pop artist
• Kumiko Sakino (先野 久美子; born 1975), Japanese retired volleyball player
• Kumiko Sato (佐藤 久美子; born 1946), Japanese figure skating coach and former competitor
• Kumiko Serizawa (1928–2021), Japanese American master doll-maker
• Kumiko Takahashi (animator) (高橋 久美子; born 1962), Japanese animator and character designer
• Kumiko Takahashi (singer) (高橋 久美子; born 1954), Japanese singer
• Kumiko Takahashi (writer) (高橋 久美子; born 1982), Japanese writer
• Kumiko Takeda (武田 久美子; born 1968), Japanese gravure model and actress
• Kumiko Takizawa (滝沢 久美子; 1952–2022), Japanese voice actress
• Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii (田中 久美子), Japanese computational linguist and a professor
• Kumiko Watanabe (渡辺 久美子; born 1965), Japanese voice actress
• Kumiko Watanabe (渡辺 久美子; born 1936), Japanese diver
• Kumiko Yokoyama (横山 久美子; born 1972), Japanese cross-country skier

• Kumiko (character), a character portrayed by Tamlyn Tomita in The Karate Kid Part II (1986) and Cobra Kai (2021)
• Kumiko Albertson, a recurring character in The Simpsons

• Kumiko (bar), Japanese bar/restaurant in West Loop, Chicago
• 4454 Kumiko, main-belt Asteroid
• Kumikō, a game of kōdō
• kumiko, the pieces of lattice work in shoji