title: Niwa (surname)
text: # Niwa (surname)
  
  Niwa is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Niwa clan, retainer clan of the Oda clan during the Sengoku period of Japan (1603 – 1868)
     * Niwa Nagaaki, Daimyō of Nihonmatsu, 1796 – 1813
     * Niwa Nagahide, Daimyō of Shirakawa
     * Niwa Nagahiro, Daimyō of Nihonmatsu, 1868 – 1871
     * Niwa Nagakuni, Daimyō of Nihonmatsu, 1858 – 1868
     * Niwa Nagashige, Daimyō of Shirakawa, 1628 – 1638
     * Niwa Nagatomi, Daimyō of Nihonmatsu, 1813 – 1858
  * Akemi Niwa (丹羽 明美, born 1973), Japanese curler, 1998 Winter Olympics participant
  * Daiki Niwa (footballer), Japanese footballer
  * Hideki Niwa, Japanese politician
  * Koki Niwa, Japanese table tennis player
  * Mikiho Niwa, Japanese actress
  * Niwa Mitsushige (丹羽 光重, 1622–1701), Japanese samurai and daimyō
  * Ryuhei Niwa, Japanese footballer
  * Shion Niwa (丹羽 詩温, born 1994), Japanese footballer
  * Uichiro Niwa, Japanese diplomat and businessman
  * Yasujiro Niwa, Japanese scientist
  * Yuya Niwa, Japanese politician
  