Shigeru

Shigeru (written: 茂, 繁, 滋, しげる in hiragana or シゲル in katakana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:

• Shigeru Ban (坂 茂; born 1957), Japanese architect
• Shigeru Chiba (千葉 繁; born 1954), Japanese voice actor
• Shigeru Egami (江上 茂; 1912–1981), Japanese karateka
• Shigeru Endo (遠藤 茂; born 1945), Japanese sport wrestler
• Shigeru Itō (伊藤茂; 1928 – 2016), Japanese socialist politician
• Shigeru Izumi (泉 茂; 1922–1995), Japanese painter and printmaker
• Shigeru Izumiya (泉谷 しげる; born 1948), Japanese actor and singer
• Shigeru Kasamatsu (笠松 茂; born 1947), Japanese artistic gymnast
• Shigeru Kayano (萱野 茂; 1926 – 2006), Japanese Ainu activist
• Shigeru Kobayashi (小林 繁; 1952–2010), Japanese baseball player
• Shigeru Miyagawa (宮川 滋; born 1948), Japanese rower
• Shigeru Miyamoto (宮本 茂; born 1952), a video game designer for Nintendo, notable for creating Mario among many other characters
• Shigeru Mizuki (水木 しげる; 1922 – 2015), expert on yokai and creator of the popular manga series Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro, and others
• Shigeru Morikasa (森笠 繁; born 1976), Japanese baseball player
• Shigeru Nakahara (中原 茂; born 1961), Japanese voice actor
• Narahara Shigeru (奈良原 繁; 1834–1918), Japanese politician
• Shigeru Oda (1924–2025), Japanese jurist, judge on the International Court of Justice from 1976 to 2003
• Shigeru Oyama (大山 茂; 1936–2016), Japanese karateka
• Shigeru Sawada (沢田 茂; 1887–1980), Japanese general
• Shigeru Shimada (島田 繁; born 1935), Japanese ice hockey player
• Shigeru Takashina (1943–2013), Japanese karateka
• Shigeru Tsuyuguchi (1932–2025), Japanese actor
• Shigeru Uehara (上原 繁; born 1947), Japanese automotive engineer
• Shigeru Umebayashi (梅林 茂; born 1951), Japanese film score composer
• Shigeru Yoshida (吉田 茂; 1878–1967), Japanese diplomat and politician, Prime Minister