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Yamauchi
Yamauchi or Yamanouchi (やまうち or やまのうち, lit. "inside mountains") is a Japanese surname. Either name is written in kanji as 山内 while Yamanouchi can also be written as 山ノ内.
Notable people with this surname include:
- Yamanouchi Toyoshige, 15th feudal lord of the Tosa domain
- Yamauchi Kazutoyo, first feudal lord of the Tosa domain
- Kenji Yamanouchi, eponymous founder of Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., now part of Astellas Pharma
- Edwin M. Yamauchi, historian and biblical scholar
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Fusajiro Yamauchi, founder of Nintendo
- Sekiryo Yamauchi (born Sekiryo Kaneda), second president of Nintendo, son-in-law of Fusajiro Yamauchi
- Hiroshi Yamauchi, third president of Nintendo, grandson of Fusajiro Yamauchi
- Goiti Yamauchi, Japanese-Brazilian mixed martial artist
- Kazunori Yamauchi, creator of the Gran Turismo videogame series
- Mara Yamauchi, British long-distance runner
- Wakako Yamauchi, American writer
- Tetsu Yamauchi, Japanese bass guitarist for the bands Free and The Faces
Other uses:
- Yamanouchi, Nagano, a town in the Shimotakai District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
- Yamauchi, Saga, a former town of Kishima District, Saga Prefecture, Japan