Famous People with Name Yoko

Yoko Akino            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoko Akino: a Japanese actress.

Yoko Natsuki            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoko Natsuki: One of her television roles was Osono, a ninja in the jidaigeki series Yoshimune Hyobanki: Abarenbo Shogun. She was also a regular star in Abare Hasshu Goyo Tabi.

Yoko Nogiwa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoko Nogiwa: a Japanese actress. She graduated from St. Paul's University in Tokyo.

Yoko Shimomura            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoko Shimomura: a Japanese video game composer and musician.While working for Capcom, she was a member of the company's in-house jazz band Alph Lyla, and composed the soundtrack of Street Fighter II.In 1993, Shimomura transferred to another game company, Squaresoft (now Square Enix). Her first project at the company was the score for the console role-playing game (RPG) Live A Live in 1994. Afterwards, she was paired with more experienced composers for a time. For example, she teamed with Noriko Matsueda on the strategy/RPG Front Mission in 1995, and in 1996, she composed and arranged the music in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, arranging music from Koji Kondo's Mario series music, and three tracks from Final Fantasy IV by Nobuo Uematsu.

Yoko Ogawa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoko Ogawa: a Japanese writer.She was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, and lives in Ashiya with her husband and son. Since 1988, she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction. Her novel The Professor and his Beloved Equation has been made into a movie. In 2006 she co-authored "An Introduction to the World's Most Elegant Mathematics" with Masahiko Fujiwara, a mathematician, as a dialogue on the extraordinary beauty of numbers.