Shinobu

Shinobu (しのぶ) is a Japanese verb meaning "recall" (偲ぶ) or "stealth / endure" (忍ぶ). It is a Japanese given name used by either sex. Shinobu is also the dictionary form of shinobi which can be combined with mono (者) to make shinobi no mono (忍びの者), an alternative name of ninja.

Possible writings
Shinobu can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
 * 忍ぶ, "stealth / endure"
 * 偲ぶ, "recall / remember"
 * 慕ぶ, "recall / remember"
 * as a given name
 * 忍, "stealth / endure"
 * 清信, "purify, belief"
 * 志信, "intention, belief"
 * as a male given name
 * 信夫, "belief, man"

Real people

 * with the given name Shinobu
 * Shinobu Adachi (忍), a Japanese voice actress and actress
 * Shinobu Asagoe (しのぶ), a Japanese professional tennis player
 * Shinobu Fukuhara (忍), a Japanese baseball pitcher
 * Shinobu Hashimoto (忍), a Japanese screenwriter, director, and producer
 * Shinobu "Inoran" Inoue (清信), a Japanese rock musician
 * Shinobu Ishihara (忍), a Japanese ophthalmologist
 * Shinobu Kandori (忍), a Japanese female wrestler and politician
 * Shinobu Muraki, a Japanese production designer and art director
 * Shinobu Nakayama (忍), a Japanese actress and a former J-pop singer
 * Shinobu Ohno, (忍) a Japanese female football player
 * Shinobu Ohtaka (忍), a Japanese manga artist
 * Shinobu Orikuchi (信夫), a Japanese ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist, and poet
 * Shinobu Ōtake (しのぶ), a Japanese actress
 * Shinobu Otowa (しのぶ), a Japanese enka singer
 * Shinobu Sato, a Japanese classical artist
 * Shinobu Satōchi (信夫), a Japanese voice actor
 * Shinobu Sekine (忍), a Japanese judoka
 * Shinobu Sugawara, a Japanese wrestler
 * Shinobu Tanaka (しのぶ), a Japanese game music composer
 * Shinobu Tanno (忍), a Japanese illustrator
 * Shinobu Yaguchi (史靖), a Japanese film director and screenwriter
 * Wakanosato Shinobu (忍), a Japanese professional sumo wrestler

Fictional characters

 * with the given name Shinobu
 * Shinobu Jacobs (シノブ), a character in the video game No More Heroes
 * Shinobu Handa, a character in the anime and manga series Shoujo Sect
 * Shinobu Ijūin (忍), a character in the manga and anime series Haikara-san ga Tōru


 * Shinobu Kagurazaka (忍), a character in the manga and anime series Tenjho Tenge
 * Shinobu Maehara (しのぶ), a character in the manga and anime series Love Hina
 * Shinobu Miyake (しのぶ), a character in the manga and anime series Urusei Yatsura
 * Shinobu Morita (忍), a character in the manga, anime, and TV drama series Honey and Clover
 * Shinobu Oshino (忍), a character in the light novel and anime Bakemonogatari
 * Shinobu Sensui (忍), a character from the anime and manga series YuYu Hakusho
 * Shinobu, a ninja trainee in "2x2 Shinobuden", aka "Ninja Nonsense"
 * Shinobu Takeda,a fictional character that appears in the comic book series W.I.T.C.H

Other uses

 * Shinobu, an American indie rock band