Okubo

Ōkubo (大久保), also Okubo, Ookubo and Ohkubo, is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

* Ōkubo clan
* Ōkubo Tadayo (1532–1594), Japanese daimyō of the Sengoku period
* Ōkubo Tadasuke (1537–1613), Japanese daimyō of the Sengoku and Edo periods
* Ōkubo Nagayasu (1545–1613), Japanese samurai of the Edo period
* Ōkubo Tadachika (1553–1628), Japanese daimyō of the Sengoku and Edo periods
* Ōkubo Tadataka (1560–1639), Japanese samurai of the Sengoku and Edo periods
* Ōkubo Tadazane (1778–1837), Japanese daimyō of the late Edo period
* Ōkubo Toshimichi (1830–1878), Japanese samurai and later leader of the Meiji restoration

Contemporary

* Atsushi Ōkubo, Japanese manga author
* Benji Okubo, American artist
* Hiroshi Okubo, Japanese video game music composer
* James K. Okubo, American Medal of Honor recipient
* Ōkubo Haruno, Japanese general
* Hideo Ohkubo, Japanese businessman
* Jin Okubo (大久保 陣, born 1988), Japanese cyclist
* Katsutoshi Okubo (大久保 勝利, born 1943), Japanese Nordic combined skier
* Kayoko Okubo, Japanese comedian
* Kathleen Okubo, Filipino journalist and activist
* Kiyoshi Ōkubo, Japanese serial killer
* Mariko Okubo, Japanese actress
* Miné Okubo, American artist
* Tsutomu Okubo, Japanese politician
* Susumu Ōkubo, who proposed the Gell-Mann–Okubo mass formula
* Yasuhiro Okubo (大久保 康裕, born 1961), Japanese sport wrestler
* Yukishige Okubo, Japanese politician
* Yuri Okubo (大久保 勇利, born 2000), Japanese snowboarder

Footballers

* Goshi Okubo, Japanese footballer
* Makoto Okubo, Japanese footballer
* Takuo Ōkubo, Japanese footballer
* Tetsuya Ōkubo, Japanese footballer
* Yoshito Ōkubo, Japanese footballer
* Yuki Okubo, Japanese footballer

## See also

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* Ōkubo, Akita, which merged with Iidagawa to become Shōwa, Akita in 1942
* Okubo Institute of Technology
* Ōkubo Station (disambiguation), multiple train stations

Surname list

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