Izumi

, meaning "spring" or "fountain", is a Japanese given name and surname. While a unisex name, it is more commonly used by women. It can alternately be written as , , , or . People with the name include: As given name , actress , stage name Minami Takayama, voice actress and singer , Japanese actress , Japanese sprint canoeist , Tibetologist , actress , Japanese swimmer , contemporary artist , manga artist , pianist , manga artist , actress and singer , professional Go player , former football player , real name Kazuya Terashima, manga artist , model and tarento , real name Motohisa Yamawaki, Kyōgen actor , founder member of the Japanese band Aion Izumi Nakadai (born 1988), member of Bon-Bon Blanco , United Nations official , real name Sachiko Kamachi, singer , real name Keiko Ishida, actress , American anthropologist , Japanese novelist and actor , health scientist, founder of the Tabata protocol , manga artist and illustrator , manga artist , actress , football player , Japanese politician , singer and actress , princess during the Asuka period and Nara period As surname , Japanese-born Indian footballer Bob Izumi, (born 1958), Canadian angler , Judoka and mixed martial artist , former long-distance runner , manga artist , Japanese baseball player , author Masaki Izumi, Japanese shogi player , actor , football player , real name Sayo Takemoto (née Eguchi), actress and singer , fashion model and gravure idol , football player , previously verified by Guinness to be the oldest man ever, but whose case is now disputed , mid Heian period poet, member of the Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry Sayoko Izumi (泉, born 1988), singer-songwriter , Japanese painter and printmaker , actor , politician , actor , actor , football player , archaeologist , Supreme Court of Japan member Fictional characters