title: Ninomiya (surname)
text: # Ninomiya (surname)
  
  Ninomiya (written: 二宮 or 二ノ宮 lit. "second shrine") is a Japanese family name.
  
  ## Notable people
  
  ### General
  
  * Ayano Ninomiya, award-winning Japanese violinist
  * Chūhachi Ninomiya, Japanese inventor and aviation pioneer
  * Kazunari Ninomiya, member of the band Arashi and an actor in the 2006 film Letters from Iwo Jima
  * Kent Ninomiya, first male Asian American to be a primary news anchor of a US television station
  * Ninomiya Sontoku (born Ninomiya Kinjirō), prominent 19th-century Japanese agricultural leader, philosopher, moralist and economist, whose statues of him reading while walking are commonly seen near Japanese schools
  * Tei Ninomiya, first Asian student at Smith College, later an administrator for YWCA in Japan
  * Tomoko Ninomiya, Japanese manga artist
  
  ### Athletics
  
  * Hiroshi Ninomiya (born in 1937), Japanese football player and manager
  * Hiroshi Ninomiya (born in 1969), Japanese football player
  * Hirokazu Ninomiya, Japanese football player and manager
  * Jōkō Ninomiya, Grandmaster, founder and director of Enshin Karate
  * Kazuhiro Ninomiya, 1976 Olympic gold medalist and two-time world judo champion
  * Kazuhiro Ninomiya (footballer), Japanese football player
  * Makoto Ninomiya, Japanese tennis player
  * Miho Ninomiya, Japanese judoka
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * Ninomiya, the main character in the light novel series Goshūshō-sama Ninomiya-kun
  * Ninomiya-kun, of the fictional Sensei and Ninomiya in Minami-ke
  * Rui Ninomiya (爾乃美家 累), a character in the anime series Gatchaman Crowds
  
  ## Eponyms
  
  * Nielsen-Ninomiya theorem, a no-go theorem in physics by Holger Bech Nielsen and Masao Ninomiya
  * Hōtoku Ninomiya Shrine, Japanese Shinto shrine in Odawara, Kanagawa dedicated to Ninomiya Sontoku
  