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Matsumoto
Matsumoto (松本 or 松元, "base of the pine tree") is a common Japanese surname and place name.
Matsumoto may refer to:
Matsumoto (surname)
Matsumoto (松本, "base of the pine tree") is the 16th most common Japanese surname.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Hajime Matsumoto (born 1974), activist
- Hideto Matsumoto (1964–1998), musician better known by his stage name hide
- Hideya Matsumoto, mathematician
- Hiroyo Matsumoto (born 1985), professional wrestler
- Hitoshi Matsumoto (born 1963), comedian
- Ikuo Matsumoto (born 1941), footballer
- Izumi Matsumoto (born 1958), manga author
- Jirō Matsumoto (born 1970), manga author
- Jun Matsumoto (born 1983), singer and actor
- Kaoru Matsumoto (born 1960), professional wrestler
- Katsuji Matsumoto (1904–1986), illustrator and manga author
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Matsumoto Kōshirō, stage name for a lineage of kabuki actors
- Matsumoto Kōshirō VII (1870–1949), tachiyaku kabuki actor from the Meiji Period through the 1940s
- Matsumoto Kōshirō IX (born 1942), tachiyaku kabuki actor currently performing
- Leiji Matsumoto (born 1938), manga author
- Miyako Matsumoto (born 1985), actress and professional wrestler
- Namika Matsumoto (born 1992), Japanese weightlifter
- Rica Matsumoto (born 1968), voice actor and singer
- Rie Matsumoto (born 1985), anime director
- Roy Matsumoto (1914–2014), a United States Army soldier and inductee of the U.S. Army Rangers Hall Of Fame and the Military Intelligence Corps Hall of Fame
- Seichō Matsumoto (1909–1992), author
- Tak Matsumoto (born 1961), musician and guitarist
- Takashi Matsumoto (lyricist) (born 1949), lyricist and former musician
- Takashi Matsumoto (poet) (1906–1956), writer
- Tortoise Matsumoto (born 1966), singer
- Toshio Matsumoto (born 1932), avant garde film director
- Yasunori Matsumoto (born 1960), voice actor
- Yukihiro Matsumoto (born 1965), programmer, author and creator of Ruby programming language
- Shoko Asahara (born 1955), a.k.a. Chizuo Matsumoto, founder of the Aum Shinrikyo religion and convicted murderer