Famous People with Name Ryo

Ryo Ishibashi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Ryo Ishibashi: a Japanese actor and international celebrity. He is known around the world for his roles in the classic Japanese Horror films Suicide Club and Audition. He is also recognized in America for his role as Nakagawa in The Grudge and The Grudge 2.Ishibashi was born in Kurume, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan. He started his career by starting his own band called the ARB (Alexander Ragtime Band) in 1977. The band made their debut in 1978, and made over a dozen albums until they broke up in 1990. Recently, Ishibashi has resumed his musical activity and re-formed ARB with an album, Real Life in 1998. In 1986, Ishibashi made his movie debut in the film A-Hômansu in which ARB's 13th single "After 45" was used as its theme song. Ryo Ishibashi has been concentrating on his acting career,

Ryo Kase            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Ryo Kase: a Japanese actor. He grew up in Bellevue, Washington until he was seven. He portrayed Shimizu, one of the lower-ranked Japanese soldiers, in Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima. He starred in Masayuki Suo's new film I Just Didn't Do It. [1]

Ryo Nishikido            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Ryo Nishikido: a member of the J-pop groups: Kanjani8 and NEWS, from Johnny's Entertainment, Inc.

Ryo Tamura            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Ryo Tamura: a Japanese actor from Kyoto. His father was silent-film star Tsumasaburo Bando. With his older brothers, the late Takahiro and Masakazu, he is one of the Three Tamura Brothers. Another older brother, Toshimaro, is active in show business as a manager.Since his debut he has taken roles in both jidaigeki and modern films and television. He portrayed Ooka Tadasuke for the final six years of the long-running prime-time television series Abarenbo Shogun, replacing Tadashi Yokouchi. A repeating modern role has been Detective Sosuke Kariya in two-hour dramas costarring Miki Fujitani.

Ryo Noda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Ryo Noda: a Japanese composer and musician who has written several works for classical saxophone.Ryo Noda born in Amagasaki, Japan, in 1948, has been hailed throughout the Western hemisphere for his perfect control, powerful avant-garde improvisations and innovative playing techniques. While he is a leading exponent of new Japanese music for the saxophone, his repertoire also includes Western music of the baroque, classical, and romantic periods. Noda was graduated from the Osaka College of Music as a saxophonist. He pursued advanced music studies at Northwestern University (Illinois) under Fred L. Hemke and at the Bordeaux Conservatory (France) under Jean-Marie Londeix.

Kaiho Ryoji            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kaiho Ryoji: is a former sumo wrestler from Aomori, Japan. His highest rank has been komusubi. An amateur champion at Nihon University, he entered professional sumo in 1996. He was one of the lightest sekitori wrestlers in recent years. He won two special prizes for T

Tamakasuga Ryoji            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tamakasuga Ryoji: is a former sumo wrestler from Seiyo, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. A former amateur sumo champion, he made his professional debut in 1994 and reached a highest rank of sekiwake in 1997. He fought in the top makuuchi division for twelve years, won five special

Peter Ryom            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Peter Ryom: is a Danish musicologist. He is internationally known as the author of the Ryom-Verzeichnis, the now-standard catalog of the works of Antonio Vivaldi. The number of a composition in the Ryom Verzeichnis (Ryom catalog) is always prefaced by the abbreviation RV. (The V in RV stands for Verzeichnis, not Vivaldi.)

Sakamoto Ryoma            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Sakamoto Ryoma: was a leader of the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa bakufu during the Bakumatsu period in Japan. Ryoma used the alias Saitani Umetaro (?????, Saitani Umetaro?) as a cover name during his work as a loyalist in the creation of a modern government.Ryoma was born in Kochi, of Tosa han (present day Kochi Prefecture, Shikoku). By the Japanese calendar, this was the 6th year of Tempo. His family in previous generations had acquired enough wealth as sake brewers to purchase the rank of merchant samurai, which was the lowest rank in the samurai social hierarchy.

Min Ryoung            Origin/Culture/Country: Korean

Min Ryoung: is a retired South Korean short track speed skater. He is the 2000 Overall World Champion.