Bunji is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Bunji Garlin
Ian Antonio Alvarez (born July 14, 1978), better known by his stage name Bunji Garlin, is a Trinidadian ragga soca artist. He is also affectionately known as the Viking of Soca. His spouse is Fay-Ann Lyons.
Early life
Bunji was born on July 1 ...
, a musician from Trinidad and Tobago
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Bunji Kimura
is a former Japanese football player and manager.
Playing career
Kimura was born in Kyoto Prefecture on July 27, 1944. After graduating from Osaka University of Economics, he joined Yanmar Diesel in 1968. He retired in 1973.
Coaching career
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(1944), Japanese footballer and coach
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Bruce Bunji Kuwabara (1950), Canadian architect
*Okazaki Bunji, creator of Japan's first stored-program computer
FUJIC
FUJIC was the first electronic digital computer in operation in Japan. It was finished in March 1956, the project having been effectively started in 1949, and was built almost entirely by Dr. Okazaki Bunji. Originally designed to perform ca ...
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Bunji Sakita
was a Japanese-American theoretical physicist who made important contributions in quantum field theory, superstring theory and discovered supersymmetry in 1971. He was a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the City College of New York.
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(1930-2002), Japanese-American theoretical physicist
*, Japanese politician
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Haruo Minami
, (born ; July 19, 1923 – April 14, 2001) was an enka singer in postwar Japan.
Early life
He was born Bunji Kitazume (北詰文司 ''Kitazume Bunji'') in Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan.
Career
In 1939, at the age of 16, Bunji debuted as a performer ...
(1923-2001), Japanese singer (birth name Bunji Kitazume)
Fictional characters
*Bunji Kugeshira, a character in the videogame ''
Gungrave
is a 2002 third-person shooter video game developed and published by Red Entertainment ( Sega in North America and Activision in Europe) for the PlayStation 2. ''Gungrave'' follows its main character through a variety of stages on a path of r ...
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*Bunji, a plush orange hamster-like rabbit in
The Chica Show
''The Chica Show'' is an American live-action/animated children's television series based on the puppetry segments of '' The Sunny Side Up Show'' on Sprout, which features the chicken puppet character Chica in full episodic and animated adventur ...
*Bunjiro "Bunji" Bennett, a character in the animated TV series ''
Bionic Six
is a 1987 animated television series. It was produced by Universal Television and animated by Tokyo Movie Shinsha (now TMS Entertainment) and distributed, through first-run syndication, by MCA TV, years before the latter company became NBCUniver ...
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See also
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Bunji (disambiguation) Bunji or Bunji-ye may refer to:
Places
* Bunji-ye Karbasi, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran
* Bunji-ye Maski, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran
* Bunji-ye Saheli Latidan, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran
* Bunji, Pakistan, a town ...
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Japanese masculine given names
Masculine given names