is a feminine Japanese given name. Although the name is always romanized the same way, the kanji characters can be different.

Written forms

Forms in kanji can include:

• 信子, "trust, child"

• 伸子, "to lengthen, child"

• 延子, "to prolong, child"

• 暢子, "extend/stretch, relax/child"

• 宜子, "good, child"

People

• Nobuko Albery, a Japanese author, theatrical producer and the widow of English theatrical impresario, Sir Donald Albery

• Princess Nobuko (Japanese romanization: Fumi-no-miya Nobuko Naishinnō, 富美宮允子内親王), the 8th daughter of Emperor Meiji

• Nobuko Asō (麻生信子), later Princess Tomohito of Mikasa (寛仁親王妃信子)

• , Japanese female former long-distance runner

• , Japanese cross-country skier

• , Japanese actress and singer

• , Japanese classical violist and chamber musician

• , Japanese politician

• Nobuko JoAnne Miyamoto (born 1939), Japanese-American folk singer, songwriter, author, and activist

• , Japanese writer

• , Japanese athlete

• , Japanese football player

• , Japanese socialite

• , Japanese actress

• , Japanese member of the Japanese Communist Party

• , Japanese pianist

• , Japanese architect

• , Japanese neuroscientist

• , Japanese politician

• , Japanese rower

• , Japanese actress

• , Japanese author

• , Japanese ambassador to Denmark from 1980 until 1983

• , Japanese first woman architect

• , Japanese artist based in London

• , Japanese speed skater

• , Japanese computer scientist

• , Japanese novelist who was active in the Taishō and Shōwa periods of Japan

Fictional characters

• Nobuko Ishihara (石原信子), a character in the manga Love Com

• Nobuko Kotani (小谷 信子), the titular character of the Japanese television drama Nobuta wo Produce

• Nobuko Komiyama (小宮山信子), the titular character of the film Nobuko (1940 film), one of many adaptations of a novel by Bunroku Shishi