# Tomoko

Tomoko (ともこ, トモコ) is a female Japanese given name. Like many Japanese names, Tomoko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
* 友子 - "friendly child"
* 知子 - "knowing child"
* 智子 - "wise child"
* 朋子 - "friendly child"
* 皆子 - "beautiful girl"
* 詩子 - "poetic child"

## People with the name

* Tomoko Abe (阿部 知子, born 1948), Japanese politician
* Tomoko Akane (赤根 智子), Japanese judge
* Tomoko Akiya (秋谷 智子, born 1976), Japanese voice actress
* Tomoko Fukumi (福見 友子, born 1985), Japanese judoka
* Tomoko Fuse (布施 知子, born 1951), Japanese origami writer
* Tomoko Hagiwara (萩原 智子, born 1980), Japanese swimmer
* Tomoko Honda (本田 朋子, born 1983), Japanese announcer
* Tomoko Hoshino (星野 知子, born 1957), Japanese actress and essayist
* Tomoko Igata (井形 とも子, born 1965), Japanese motorcycle racer
* Tomoko Ikuta (生田 智子, born 1967), Japanese actress
* Tomoko Ishida (石田 智子, born 1977), Japanese sprinter
* Tomoko Ishimura (石村 知子, born 1972), Japanese voice actress
* Tomoko Kami (紙 智子, born 1955), Japanese politician
* Tomoko Kamimura (上村 智子, 1956 – 1977), victim of Minamata disease and subject of the photo Tomoko and Mother in the Bath
* Tomoko Kanazawa (金澤 朋子, born 1995), Japanese singer
* Tomoko Kaneda (金田 朋子, born 1973), Japanese voice actress
* Tomoko Kashiki (樫木 知子, born 1982), Japanese artist
* Tomoko Kawakami (川上 とも子, 1970 – 2011), Japanese voice actress
* Tomoko Kawase (川瀬 智子, born 1975), Japanese singer
* Tomoko Kitamura (北村 智子, born 1963), Japanese professional wrestler
* Tomoko Kondō (近藤 智子, born 1968), Japanese singer, part of 1980s J-Pop duo BaBe
* Tomoko Konoike (鴻池 朋子, born 1960), Japanese painter
* Tomoko Maruo (丸尾 知子), Japanese voice actress
* Tomoko Masuzawa, American philosopher
* Tomoko Matsunaga (松永 知子, born 1971), Japanese women's footballer
* Tomoko Matsunashi (松梨 智子, born 1971), Japanese film director and actress
* Tomoko Miho (1931 – 2012), American graphic designer
* Tomoko Miyaguchi (宮口 知子, born 1975), Japanese professional wrestler
* Tomoko Moriguchi-Matsuno (born 1945), American businesswoman
* Tomoko Muramatsu (村松 智子, born 1994), Japanese women's footballer
* Tomoko Nagai (永井 奉子, born 1981), Japanese swimmer
* Tomoko Naka (中 友子, born 1963), Japanese voice actress
* Tomoko Nakajima (中嶋 朋子, born 1971), Japanese actress
* Tomoko Namba (南場 智子, born 1962), Japanese businesswoman
* Tomoko Naraoka (奈良岡 朋子, 1929–2023), Japanese actress
* Tomoko Ninomiya (二ノ宮 知子, born 1969), Japanese manga artist
* Tomoko Ogawa (尾川 智子, born 1978), Japanese rock climber
* Tomoko Ohara (大原智子, born 1957), Japanese women's footballer
* Tomoko Ohta (太田 朋子, born 1933), Japanese geneticist, pioneer of the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution
* Tomoko Oka (岡 智子, born 1964), Japanese fencer
* Tomoko Okano (岡野 知子, born 1979), Japanese volleyball player
* Tomoko Onogi (大野木 智子, born 1969), Japanese swimmer
* Tomoko Owada (大和田 智子, born 1941), Japanese fencer
* Tomoko Sakagami (坂上 智子, born 1983), Japanese ice hockey player
* Tomoko Sasaki (佐々木 知子, born 1955), Japanese lawyer, politician and writer
* Tomoko Sawada (澤田 知子, born 1977), Japanese photographer
* Tomoko Sugawara, Japanese harpist
* Tomoko Suzuki (鈴木 智子, born 1982), Japanese women's footballer
* Tomoko Tabata (田畑 智子, born 1980), Japanese actress
* Tomoko Takahashi (born 1966), Japanese artist
* Tomoko Tamura (田村智子, born 1965), Japanese politician
* Tomoko Tamura (fl. 1983), Japanese table tennis player
* Tomoko Tanaka (田中 智子, born 1958), Japanese ice dancer
* Tomoko Tane (種 ともこ, born 1961), Japanese singer, songwriter and arranger
* Tomoko Taniguchi (たにぐち 智子), Japanese manga artist
* Tomoko Ukishima (浮島 智子, born 1963), Japanese politician
* Tomoko Yamaguchi (山口 智子, born 1964), Japanese actress and singer
* Tomoko Yonemura (米村 知子, born 1982), Japanese tennis player
* Tomoko Yoshida (吉田 知子, born 1934), Japanese writer
* Tomoko Yoshihara (吉原 知子, born 1970), Japanese volleyball player
* Tomoko Yoshino (芳野友子, born 1965), Japanese president of RENGO

## Fictional characters

* Tomoko Anabuki (穴拭 智子), a character from the Strike Witches light novel
* Tomoko Hayashi, a character from the tokusatsu show Himitsu Sentai Gorenger
* Tomoko Higashikata, a character from the manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
* Tomoko Kuroki, the main character from the manga series WataMote
* Tomoko Midorikawa (緑川 とも子), a character from the 2012 anime series Smile PreCure!
* Tomoko Nakaoka, the baby sister of Barefoot Gen
* Tomoko Nomura (野村 朋子), a character from the manga and anime series Great Teacher Onizuka
* Tomoko Nozama, a character from the tokusatsu show Kamen Rider Fourze
* Tomoko Saeki, a character from the anime and manga series DNA²
* Tomoko Shiretoko, a character from the Boku no Hero Academia
* In Liu Cixin's science fiction novel Death's End the ambassador of an alien civilisation is called 智子 and appears in the shape of a Japanese woman. This is a double entendre between sophon (a fictitious elementary particle) and the Japanese name.