# Noriko

Noriko (のりこ, ノリコ) is a Japanese given name for females.

## Written forms

Forms in kanji can include:
* 徳子, "benevolence child"
* 法子, "method, law child"
* 則子, "rule child"
* 紀子, "chronicle child"
* 教子, "teach child"
* 範子, "pattern child"
* 典子, "rule, precedent, ceremony child"
* 規子, "standard, measure child"
* 憲子, "constitution child"
* 稔子, "child who harvests wisdom and knowledge"
* 雅子, "beauty child"
* 希子, "hope child"
* 倫子, "ethics child"
* 矩子, "ruler child"
* 能理子, "child who is skilled in reason, logic"
* 乃理子, "child of reason"

## People with the name

* Noriko Anno (阿武 教子, born 1976), Japanese judoka
* Noriko Arai (荒井 のり子), Japanese female wheelchair racer
* Noriko H. Arai (born 1962), Japanese mathematical logician and artificial intelligence researcher
* Noriko Asano (浅野 典子, born 1955), Japanese swimmer
* Noriko Awaya (淡谷 のり子, 1907–1999), Japanese singer
* Noriko Hidaka (日高 のり子), Japanese voice actress
* Noriko Higashide [ja] (東出典子), Japanese actress
* Noriko Kajiwara (梶原 紀子), Japanese Paralympic swimmer
* Noriko Katō (加藤 紀子, born 1973), Japanese singer and actress
* Noriko Kijima (木嶋のりこ), Japanese actress and gravure model
* Noriko Kosai (香西 式子, born 1955), Japanese sport shooter
* Noriko Kodera (小寺 法子), Japanese new age artist better known as Dream Dolphin
* Noriko Kubo (久保 紀子, born 1972), Japanese fencer
* Noriko Matsueda (松枝 賀子), Japanese video game composer
* Noriko Mitose (みとせのりこ), Japanese singer
* Noriko Mizoguchi (溝口 紀子), Japanese voice actress
* Noriko Mochizuki (望月 のり子, born 1967), Japanese gymnast
* Noriko Munekata (宗像 記子, born 1974), Japanese judoka
* Noriko Nakagoshi (中越典子), Japanese actress
* Noriko Namiki [ja] (並木のり子), Japanese voice actress; see Idaten Jump
* Noriko Ohara (小原 乃梨子, born 1935), Japanese voice actress
* Noriko Ogawa (singer) (小川範子), Japanese actress and singer
* Noriko Ogawa (pianist) (小川典子), Japanese classical pianist
* Noriko Sakai (酒井 法子), Japanese singer and actress
* Noriko Sasaki (佐々木 倫子, born 1961), Japanese manga artist
* Noriko Shitaya (下屋 則子), Japanese voice actress
* Noriko Suzuki [ja] (すずき 紀子), Japanese voice actress; see Doctor Neo Cortex
* Tujiko Noriko (born Noriko Tsujiko (辻子紀子), Japanese experimental musician
* Noriko Tatsumi (辰巳典子), Japanese pink film actress
* Noriko Watanabe (渡辺 典子), Japanese actress
* Noriko Yamamoto (山本 憲子, born 1944), Japanese swimmer
* Noriko Yamanaka (山中 教子), Japanese female table tennis player
* Noriko Senge (千家典子, born 1988), former princess of the Japanese Imperial Family

## Fictional characters

* Noriko Ashida who also goes by the codename Surge from New X-Men
* Noriko Hirayama, a character of the Yasujirō Ozu film, Tokyo Story (the daughter-in-law)
* Noriko Kawada, a character of Digimon
* Noriko Kinoshita, a character of Juvenile
* Noriko Nakagawa, a main character of the book and film Battle Royale
* Noriko Nijo, a character of Maria-sama ga Miteru
* Noriko from Usagi Yojimbo, the villain of the "Treasure of the Mother of Mountains" arc
* Noriko Shimabara, titular character of the film Noriko's Dinner Table
* Noriko Takaya, a character of Gunbuster
* Noriko Ukai, a character of the manga Gravitation
* Noriko Ono, one of the main character's daughters in An Artist of the Floating World
* Noriko Noshimuri, a character of the television series Hawaii Five-0
* Noriko Momoi, a friend character of Mami Sakura from Esper Mami