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Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder who played professionally for 28 seasons. He played nine years of his career with the Orix BlueWave of Nippon Professional Baseball , where he began his career, and 14 with the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball. After playing the first 12 years of his MLB career for the Mariners, Suzuki played two and a half seasons with the New York Yankees and three with the Miami Marlins.

In his combined playing time in the NPB and MLB, Suzuki received 17 consecutive selections both as an All-Star and Gold Glove winner, won nine league batting titles, and was named most valuable player four times. In the NPB, he won seven consecutive batting titles and three consecutive Pacific League MVP Awards. In 2001, Suzuki became the first Japanese-born position player to be posted and signed to an MLB club. He led the American League in batting average and stolen bases en route to being named AL Rookie of the Year and AL MVP. Photo credit Derral Chen via Wikimedia Commons.

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Yu Suzuki

Yu Suzuki is a Japanese game designer, producer, programmer, and engineer, who headed Sega's AM2 team for 18 years. Considered one of the first auteurs of video games, he has been responsible for a number of Sega's arcade hits, including three-dimensional sprite-scaling games that used taikan motion simulator arcade cabinets, such as Hang-On, Space Harrier, Out Run, and After Burner, and pioneering polygonal 3D games such as Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter, which are credited with popularizing 3D graphics in video games, as well as the critically acclaimed Shenmue series. As a hardware engineer, he led the development of various arcade system boards, and was involved in the technical development of the Dreamcast console and its corresponding NAOMI arcade hardware.

In 2003, Suzuki became the sixth person to be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame. IGN listed him at number 9 in their Top 100 Game Creators of All Time list. In 2011, he received the Pioneer Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards. As a producer, he worked on games such as Daytona USA, which featured texture filtering in 1993, and Virtua Cop, which in 1994 introduced 3D polygons to light gun shooters, and influenced the seminal 1997 first-person shooter GoldenEye 007. Photo credit Yu Suzuki via Wikimedia Commons.

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Daniele Suzuki

Daniele Suzuki is a Brazilian actress, filmmaker, and television host. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Danielle Suzuki is the daughter of Hiroshi Suzuki, a second generation Japanese Brazilian from Sao Paulo, whose parents immigrated from Shizuoka. Her mother is Ivone Suzuki, a Brazilian from Minas Gerais, of German, Italian and Native Brazilian descent. Her father walked out on her family when she was 15 and moved back to Sao Paulo.

When she was 15, Suzuki started her career as a model, despite finding that her Asian appearance somewhat limited her chances. She graduated in Industrial Design in Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Later, she started acting, gaining fame as the Brazilian teenager Miyuki in the telenovela Malhacao. Nowadays, Suzuki also works as a host in Pe no Chao show, on the Brazilian Multishow channel. Photo credit Mauricio Mercer via Wikimedia Commons.

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Fuku Suzuki

Fuku Suzuki is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. As a member of the talent agency Theatre Academy, he made his first appearance in 2006 on the NHK children's programme Inai Inai Baa! before earning a major role in Marumo no Okite and more recently the lead role in the television drama and film Kodomo Keisatsu. Suzuki has also featured as a tarento on several variety and quiz shows, most notably Waratte Iitomo.

As a singer, Suzuki is most famous for his 2011 collaboration with child actress Mana Ashida under the name Kaoru to Tomoki, Tamani Mook. The duo released the hit single "Maru Maru Mori Mori!" which earned them a place on the prestigious music show Kōhaku Uta Gassen and the Special Award at the 53rd Japan Record Awards. Photo credit YamatoHozumi via Wikimedia Commons.

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Kenji Suzuki

Kenji Suzuki, better known as Damo Suzuki, is a Japanese musician who has been living in Germany since the early 1970s and is best known as the former lead singer of the krautrock group Can. When Malcolm Mooney left Can after recording their first album Monster Movie, Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit encountered Suzuki busking in Munich, Germany, whilst the two were sitting outside at a street cafe. They invited him to join the group, and he did, performing with them that evening.

Suzuki was with Can from 1970 to 1973, recording a number of well-regarded albums such as Tago Mago, Future Days and Ege Bamyası. Suzuki's first vocal performance with Can was Don't Turn the Light On, Leave Me Alone from Soundtracks. His freeform, often improvised lyrics, were sung in no particular language. Photo credit Nick Soveiko via Wikimedia Commons.

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Ami Suzuki

Ami Suzuki is a Japanese recording artist, DJ, and actress from Zama, Kanagawa, Japan. Having been discovered at the talent TV show Asayan, she was one of the most popular female teen idols in the late 1990s. However, in 2000, Suzuki faced legal problems with her management company resulting in a controversial blacklisting from the entertainment industry. Suzuki attempted to resurrect her career under her own steam with two indie singles before signing to Avex Trax in 2005.

She released Delightful, a dance song that reached No. 3 on the Japanese Oricon charts with a style similar to electronic club music, significantly different from her pop idol days. Since her appearance in the 2006 film Rainbow Song, Suzuki has gradually made a name for herself in the acting field, starring in various movies, television series, and musicals. Photo credit Readyforlara via Wikimedia Commons.

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Akiko Suzuki

Akiko Suzuki is a Japanese former competitive figure skater. She is the 2012 World Championships bronze medalist, a three time Grand Prix Final medalist, a two-time Four Continents silver medalist, the 2007 Winter Universiade champion, and the 2013 Japanese national champion.

Following her retirement in 2014, Suzuki began working as a choreographer and teaching with her longtime coach, Hiroshi Nagakubo, at the Howa Sports Land Skating Club in the Aichi Prefecture. Photo credit Luu via Wikimedia Commons.

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Airi Suzuki

Airi Suzuki ,born 1989 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese violinist. She began playing the violin at the age of four and joined the Toho Gakuen School of Music in 2005. In 2006, she was second prize winner at the XIII Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition. Suzuki performed her debut recital at Yokosuka in the spring of 2005, and is studying at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media with Krzysztof Wegrzyn.

In the past, she performed with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, and Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra. She won fifth prize at the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover in 2012. Photo credit WIKImaniac via Wikimedia Commons.

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Aguri Suzuki

Aguri Suzuki is a Japanese former racing driver. He participated in 88 Formula One Grands Prix, his best result being third place at the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix. He then became involved in team ownership, with interests firstly in the Japanese Formula Nippon Championship and the IRL in partnership with Mexican racer Adrian Fernandez.

He was the owner of the Super Aguri F1 team, which participated in Formula One from 2006 to 2008. He then went on to form Team Aguri, which raced in Formula E from 2014 to 2016. Photo by Morio via Wikimedia Commons.

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Airi Suzuki

Airi Suzuki, born April 12, 1994, is a Japanese singer, actress, model, and radio personality associated with Up-Front Works. In 2002, she joined Hello Project as a member of Hello Project Kids and later debuted as one of the lead vocalists of the Japanese girl group Cute in 2005. Throughout her singing career, Suzuki also became a vocalist for the girl group Buono.

From June 2015 onwards, she became an exclusive model for the fashion magazine Ray. After Cute and Buono disbanded in 2017, Suzuki left Hello Project and debuted as a solo singer with the album Do Me a Favor. Photo credit Kevin Tudeau via Wikimedia Commons.

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Hideki Suzuki

Hideki Suzuki is a Japanese professional wrestler who is currently signed to Pro Wrestling Noah. He previously wrestled in WWE, where he performed on the NXT brand under the ring name Hachiman as a member of Diamond Mine, and also worked as a coach at the WWE Performance Center. Trained by Billy Robinson, Suzuki started his career with the Inoki Genome Federation (IGF) promotion in 2008. In 2014, he left IGF to become a freelancer, starting to work for promotions such as Big Japan Pro Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Zero1 and Wrestle-1.

He is a former 2 times BJW World Strong Heavyweight Champion,One time Zero1 World Heavyweight, NWA United National Heavyweight, Wrestle-1 Champion and NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Champion. In 2017, Fighting TV Samurai named Suzuki the MVP in Japanese independent wrestling. Overall he is a 3 times Professional Wrestling World Heavyweight Champion. Photo credit Bject via Wikimedia Commons.