Itō

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Itō (伊藤) is the sixth most common Japanese family name. Other ways of writing of this name are for example 伊東 and 伊都. Phonetically they are the same. Surnames with this sound can also be romanized as Ito, Itou or Itoh.

Ito (糸) is a Japanese noun meaning "thread; yarn; string"^[2], and is also used as a surname in Japan.

In mathematics, Itō may refer to Itō's lemma used in stochastic calculus, or it may refer to the Itoh-Tsujii inversion algorithm in field theory.

People

• Atsushi Itō, a Japanese actor
• Ayumi Ito, a Japanese actress
• Chiaki Itō, a singer in the Japanese pop band AAA (triple A)
• Chūbei Itō, founder of Itochu Corporation
• Gerald Tamekichi Itō, the birth name of Jerry Ito, a Japanese-American film and television actor
• Hajime Itō, birth name of Ito Shinsui (pseudonym), a Japanese Nihonga painter and ukiyo-e woodblock print artist in the Taishō and Showa period
• Hirobumi Itō, former Prime Minister of Japan
• Hiroshi Itō, a Japanese voice actor, or seiyū
• Hitoshi Ito, a Japanese poet, novelist, translator and literary critic (who worked under the name Sei Ito or Sei Itoh)
• Iccho Itoh (or Itchō Itō), former mayor of Nagasaki, assassinated in April 2007;
• Ichiro Ito, guitarist of the Japanese rock band Every Little Thing
• Itō Sachio (1864-1913), the pen-name of a Japanese tanka poet and novelist (his real name name was Itō Kojirō)
• Jerry Ito (born as Gerald Tamekichi Itō), a Japanese-American film and television actor, specialized in Japanese films throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s
• Jōichi Itō, more commonly known as Joi Ito, is a Japanese activist, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist
• Junji Ito, an author of Japanese horror manga
• Kanae Itō, a Japanese voice actress or seiyū
• Kanzi Itō (a.k.a. Ludovikito), a Japanese Esperanto speaker, who published 43 volumes of the entire commented corpus of L. L. Zamenhof
• Kazuyoshi Itō, a Japanese astronomer. Discovered 6879 Hyogo (1994 TC15), a Main-belt Asteroid, on October 14, 1994
• Ken Itō, a Japanese composer, conductor, and writer
• Kenichi Itō, a Japanese musician. Played amongst others as a guitarist for the J-pop band Iceman and for scarecrow
• Kenji Ito, a Japanese video game composer and musician
• Kentarō Itō, a Japanese voice actor, or seiyū
• Kimiko Itoh, a Japanese jazz singer
• Kiyoshi Itō, a Japanese mathematician
• Kojirō Itō, the real name of Itō Sachio, which was the pen-name of a Japanese tanka poet and novelist
• Kunimitsu Itō, a retired Japanese long-distance runner, who finished second in the 1981 edition of the Fukuoka Marathon
• Lance Allan Ito, an American Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, best known for his presiding decision during the O. J. Simpson murder case
• Mancio Itō, the first official Japanese emissary to Europe
• Masao Ito, a Japanese neuroscientist
• Masatoshi Ito, is the owner and honorary chairman of Ito-Yokado retailing group
• Masayoshi Itō, former Prime Minister of Japan (1980) and foreign minister of Japan from 1980 to 1981
• Masumi Itō　(also known as Hikaru Nanase), a Japanese singer and composer. She is also part of the band Oranges & Lemons
• Midori Ito, a former Japanese figure skater. The 1989 World Champion and the 1992 Olympic silver medallist
• Mika Itō a.k.a. Mika Doi, a Japanese voice actress or seiyū
• Miki Itō, a Japanese voice actor
• Misaki Ito, a Japanese actress (born as Tomoko Anzai)
• Mizuko "Mimi" Ito, a Japanese cultural anthropologist
• Noe Ito, a Japanese author, social critic and feminist
• Noizi Ito, a Japanese manga artist
• Noriko Ito, a Japanese author
• Noriko Itō, maiden name of Noriko Nagai, a Japanese voice actress, better known by the stage name Noriko Hidaka
• Ogura Yonesuke Itoh, a Japanese-American artist
• Risa Itō, a Japanese manga artist
• Robert Ito, a Canadian voice, television and movie actor
• Sachio Itō, the pen-name of a Japanese tanka poet and novelist (his real name name was Kojirō Itō)
• Sei Ito, a Japanese poet, novelist, translator and literary critic
• Sei Itoh, a manga artist
• Seiichi Itō, a World War II admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy and commander of the battleship Yamato on its final mission towards the end of World War II
• Shinichi Itoh, a former professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and three times Japanese Superbike Champion
• Shinsui Ito, the pseudonym of Hajime Itō, a Japanese Nihonga painter and ukiyo-e woodblock print artist in the Taishō and Showa period
• Shizuka Itō, a Japanese voice actress and singer
• Shunsuke Ito, a Japanese freestyle swimmer
• Shunya Itō, a Japanese film director
• Takaaki Itō (author), a Japanese author
• Takaaki Itoh (musician), Japanese techno producer, DJ and promoter. Founded the Wols label
• Takeo Itō, a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II
• Teiji Ito, a Japanese composer and performer, best known for his scores for the avant-garde films by Maya Deren
• Toyo Ito, a Japanese architect
• Yuna Ito, an American J-pop singer-songwriter and actress who is active in Japan

Places

• Itō, Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan (伊東市)
• Ito District, Wakayama Prefecture (伊都郡)

Other uses

• Antonio Álvarez Pérez, a Spanish footballer nicknamed Ito
• Ito cell, or Hepatic stellate cell, a kind of fat-storing cell found in the liver
• Itō calculus, an extension of calculus to stochastic processes, named after Kiyoshi Itō
• ITO, indium tin oxide, a transparent conductive metal oxide
• Itochu Corporation (伊藤忠商事, Itōchū Shōji^?), one of the biggest Japanese trading companies, founded by Chūbei Itō (伊藤忠兵衛) in 1858

Fictional characters

• Itō (伊藤 Itō) from Hikaru no Go
• Keita Itō of Gakuen Heaven

References

1. ^ 1990 Census Name Files
2. ^ Jim Breen's WWWJDIC