Famous People with Name Murakami

Haruki Murakami            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Haruki Murakami: is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator.[1] His work has been described by the Virginia Quarterly Review as "easily accessible, yet profoundly complex".

Hiroaki Murakami            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hiroaki Murakami: a Japanese actor. He specializes in jidaigeki roles, and has also taken parts in tokusatsu and modern productions.Hiroaki appeared in the NHK jidaigeki On'yado Kawasemi in 1980–81, and in a new series Shin On'yado Kawasemi in 1997. He appeared in Hissatsu Shigotonin Series 4, and as a repeating character in Series 5, including special episodes (1984–87). Five Taiga drama roles are among his credits. They are in Haru no Hato (1985), Kosaka Masanobu in Takeda Shingen (1988),

Ryu Murakami            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Ryu Murakami: a Japanese novelist and filmmaker.Murakami's first work, the short novel Almost Transparent Blue, written while he was still a student of Musashino Art University, deals with promiscuity and drug use among disaffected Japanese youth. Critically acclaimed as a new style of literature, it won the newcomer's literature prize in 1976 despite some observers decrying it as decadent. Later the same year, Blue won the Akutagawa Prize, going on to become a best seller. In 1980, Murakami published the much longer novel Coin Locker Babies, again to critical acclaim.

Kiyonobu Murakami            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kiyonobu Murakami: a Japanese boxer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.In 1932 he was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the flyweight class after losing his fight to Thomas Pardoe.

Daisuke "Dice" Murakami            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Daisuke "Dice" Murakami: a Japanese figure skater who previously represented the United States in international competition. He is the 2009 Japanese Junior bronze medalist and the 2006 U.S. Junior pewter medalist.Murakami began skating at age nine. He began competing on the Juvenile level in 2001. He moved up the competition ladder and made his Nationals debut at the 2004 United States Figure Skating Championships, where he won the silver medal. This earned him a trip to the 2004 Triglav Trophy, which he won.