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Omura

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Omura (小村) or Ōmura (大村) are Japanese surnames, but may also refer to:

  • Ōmura, Nagasaki, a city located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
  • Ōmura clan, a clan of samurai of Medieval Japan of the province of Hizen
  • Omura's whale (Balaenoptera omurai), a species of rorqual about which very little is known
  • Dacun, renamed Ōmura during Japanese rule, a rural township in Changhua County, Taiwan

People

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  • Ōmura Masujirō (大村 益次郎, 1824-1869), a Japanese military leader and theorist in Bakumatsu period Japan
  • Ōmura Sumihiro (大村 純熈, 1830-1882), the 13th and final daimyō of Ōmura Domain in Hizen Province, Kyūshū, Japan
  • Ōmura Sumitada (大村 純忠, 1533-1587), a Japanese daimyō lord of the Sengoku period
  • Ōmura Yoshiaki, a ruling head of the clan of Omura throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan
  • Hideaki Ōmura (大村 秀章, born 1960), a Japanese politician and the governor of Aichi Prefecture
  • Jim K. Omura (born 1940), an electrical engineer and information theorist
  • Masanari Omura (大村 真也, born 1984), Japanese footballer
  • Norio Omura (小村 徳男, born 1969), a former Japanese football defender
  • Satoshi Omura (大村 智, born 1935), a Japanese microbiologist
  • Seiichi Ōmura (大村 清一, 1892-1968), politician and cabinet minister