Famous People with Name Akira

Akira Ishigame            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Akira Ishigame: is a former Japanese football player. He played for Thespa Kusatsu in the J. League Division 2.

Akira Kitaguchi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Akira Kitaguchi: is a former Japanese football player. He made several appearances for the Japan national football team and was a part of the squad for the 1956 Summer Olympics football competition in Melbourne.

Akira Matsunaga            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Akira Matsunaga: was a Japanese football player. He was part of the Japan national team for the 1936 Summer Olympics football competition in Berlin. He was killed in the Battle of Guadalcanal.

Akira Maeda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Akira Maeda: is a Japanese professional wrestler, also known as Kwik-kik-Lee for his time on the British Wrestling show World of Sport. He helped develop the shoot-style of professional wrestling during the late 1980s. Maeda entered the New Japan Pro Wrestling dojo in

Akira Nogami            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Akira Nogami: is a Japanese professional wrestler and actor, currently working for the New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. After losing the title to Norio Honaga in November 1991, he graduated to the heavyweight division. In June 1992, he teamed up with Hiroshi H

Abe Akira            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Abe Akira: was a contemporary Japanese author. He was born in Hiroshima, where his father, a naval officer, was stationed, but spend the majority of his childhood in the seaside town of Kugenuma. He graduated from the University of Tokyo with a degree in French literature and worked for a broadcasting company until 1971, when he became a full time writer. His literary career began in 1962 with the publication of The Children's Room, (Kodomobeya), an emotional account of growing up with a mentally retarded older brother. Almost all of his stories are autobiographical and based on events from his own life and the lives of his family. His short story, Peaches, published in 1972, has appeared in several anthologies of short stories. Peaches is a beautiful, mystical tale that finds the author questioning the most fundamental source of his art——his memory.

Takekaze Akira            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Takekaze Akira: is a professional sumo wrestler from Akita Prefecture, Japan. A former amateur sumo champion, he turned professional in 2002, reaching the top division the following year. He has been a runner-up in one tournament and earned two special prizes for Fightin