Mamoru

MamoruGender| Male

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Origin
Word/name| Japanese
Meaning| Different meanings depending on the kanji used

Mamoru (まもる, マモル) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:

* Marcus Mamoru Toji (born 1984), American actor
* Mamoru Fujieda (藤枝 守; born 1955), Japanese composer
* Mamoru Fujisawa or Joe Hisaishi (藤澤 守 or 久石 譲; born 1950), Japanese composer best known for his work with animator Hayao Miyazaki
* Mamoru Hamatsu (浜津 守; born 1954), anime director
* Mamoru Hatakeyama (畠山 鎮; born 1969), Japanese shogi player
* Mamoru Hosoda (細田 守; born 1967), Japanese film director
* Mamoru Imura (井村 守; born 1948), Japanese inventor, music composer, and Chief Executive Officer of VitaCraft and VitaCraft Japan
* Mamoru Inagaki (稲垣 守; born 1949), Olympics marksmen
* Mamoru Kanbe (神戸 守; born 1962), Japanese anime director
* Mamoru Kuroiwa (黒岩 守; born 1962), Japanese boxer
* Mamoru Morimoto (森本 葵; born 1939), Japanese middle-distance runner
* Mamoru Miyano (宮野 真守; born 1983), Japanese actor and voice actor
* Mamoru Mohri (毛利 衛; born 1948), Japanese astronaut
* Mamoru Nagano (永野 護; born 1960), Japanese mechanical designer, character designer, and manga artist
* Mamoru Nakamura (died 1992), Palauan jurist
* Mamoru Oshii (押井 守; born 1951), Japanese film director
* Mamoru Samuragochi (佐村河内 守; born 1963), Japanese composer
* Mamoru Sato (born 1937), American modernist sculptor
* Mamoru Seki (関 衛; 1909–1942), Imperial Japanese Navy officer
* Mamoru Shigemitsu (重光 葵; 1887–1957), Japanese Minister of Foreign affairs at the end of World War II
* Mamoru Sugiura (杉浦 守; born 1964), Japanese illustrator/manga artist
* Mamoru Takashima (高島 守; born 1938), Japanese ice hockey player
* Mamoru Takuma (宅間 守; 1963–2004), Japanese criminal/murderer
* Mamoru Watanabe (渡辺 護; 1931–2013), Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor
* Mamoru Yamada (山田 守; 1894–1966), Japanese architect
* Mamoru Yamaguchi (山口 マモル; born 1977), Japanese mixed martial artist

## Fictional characters

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* Mamoru Akasaka (赤坂 衛), a character in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni visual novel and anime series
* Mamoru Amami (天海 護), a character in The King of Braves GaoGaiGar
* Mamoru Chiba (地場 衛), a character in the Sailor Moon series
* Mamoru Endo (円堂 守), a character in the Inazuma Eleven
* Mamoru Itou (伊東 守), a character in From the New World
* Mamoru Itsuki (一樹 守), a character in Forbidden Siren 2
* Mamoru Izawa (井沢 守), a character in the Captain Tsubasa series
* Mamoru Kagemori (陰守 マモル), a character in Kage Kara Mamoru!
* Mamoru Kodai (古代 守), a character in Space Battleship Yamato
* Mamoru Takamura (鷹村 守), a character in the Hajime no Ippo series
* Mamoru Yoshimura (吉村 護), a character in Mamoru-kun ni Megami no Shukufuku wo!
* Mamoru-kun, the anthropomorphic canine mascot for Fukuoka Prefecture's disaster prevention, created by CyberConnect2. Mamoru-kun was originally planned to be the main character of Tail Concerto II, but due to the poor sales of the last game, it never came to fruition.[citation needed]

## See also

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* Kage Kara Mamoru!, series of light novels written by Achi Taro
* Mamoru-kun ni Megami no Shukufuku o!, a light novel series by Hiroki Iwata
* 4613 Mamoru, a main-belt asteroid

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