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Shigeru
Shigeru is a Japanese given name.
It can refer to the following people:
- Shigeru Ban, a Japanese architect
- Shigeru Chiba, a Japanese voice actor
- Shigeru Honma, Japanese voice actor
- Shigeru Izumiya, an actor and singer
- Shigeru Kayano, Ainu activist
- Shigeru Mizuki, expert on yokai and creator of the popular manga series Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro, and others
- Shigeru Miyamoto, a video game designer for Nintendo, notable for creating Mario among many other characters
- Shigeru Uehara, a Japanese automotive team lead, designer, and engineer at Honda, notable for his work on Honda NSX and Honda S2000 projects
- Shigeru Umebayashi, a Japanese film score composer
- Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese diplomat and politician, former Prime Minister
It can refer to the following fictional characters:
- Shigeru Akagi, from Akagi
- Shigeru Aoba, a character from Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Shigeru Jou/ Kamen Rider Stronger
- Shigeru Kanmuri, a character from Yakitate!! Japan
- Shigeru Okido, the Japanese name of Gary Oak, a Pokémon character (named after Shigeru Miyamoto)
- Otori Shigeru, a character in Lian Hearn's popular Tales of the Otori trilogy.