Yokoi is Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Gunpei Yokoi, designer of the Game Boy and other Nintendo products
Hirotaka Yokoi, professional mixed martial arts fighter
Shoichi Yokoi, soldier and celebrity
Yokoi Shōnan, political reformer
Mitsuo Yokoi, a Japanese voice actor (known as "Tesshō Genda")
Yokoi Yayū, 18th-century poet
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Shōichi Yokoi (横井 庄一, Yokoi Shōichi, 31 March 1915 – 22 September 1997) was a Japanese soldier who served as a sergeant in the Imperial Japanese Army...
Gunpei Yokoi (横井 軍平, Yokoi Gunpei, September 10, 1941 – October 4, 1997), sometimes transliterated as Gumpei Yokoi, was a Japanese toy maker and video...
fighter Shoichi Yokoi, soldier and celebrity Yokoi Shōnan, political reformer Mitsuo Yokoi, a Japanese voice actor (known as "Tesshō Genda") Yokoi Yayū, 18th-century...
Teruko Yokoi (横井 照子, Yokoi Teruko, (1924 – 28 October 2020) was a Japanese-born Swiss artist, known for her abstract paintings. Yokoi was born in 1924...
Hirotaka Yokoi (横井宏考) (born June 8, 1978) is a Japanese former mixed martial artist and professional wrestler. A professional MMA competitor from 2000...
Yuhana Yokoi (Japanese: 横井 ゆは菜; born May 19, 2000) is a retired Japanese figure skater. She is the 2019 CS Finlandia Trophy bronze medalist and the 2020...
Lilly Yokoi (born 1929) is a Japanese American bicycle acrobat known as the "The Ballerina on the Golden Bicycle". Yokoi toured with her family, going...
Yokoi Kinkoku (横井金谷, Hōreki 11 <1761> - the 1st month and 10th day of Tenpō 3 <February 1, 1832>) was a wanderer, monk of Jōdo-shū Buddhism, a painter...
Masashi Yokoi (横井 昌志, Yokoi Masashi, 29 October 1982, Gifu) is a Japanese professional drifter, he currently competing in D1 Grand Prix and win the championship...
was designed by the Nintendo Research & Development 1 team, led by Gunpei Yokoi and Satoru Okada. The device features a dot-matrix display, a directional...
Sybra yokoi is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Skale and Weigel in 2014. BioLib.cz - Sybra yokoi. Retrieved on 8 September...
The Yokosuka MXY8 Akigusa (秋草, "Autumn grass") was a training glider built in parallel with the Mitsubishi J8M rocket-powered interceptor aircraft. The...
Tokio Yokoi (横井 時雄) (December 3, 1857 – September 13, 1927) was a Japanese pastor, journalist, bureaucrat, and member of the Japanese House of Representatives...
1979, Gunpei Yokoi, traveling on a bullet train, saw a bored businessman playing with an LCD calculator by pressing the buttons. Yokoi then thought of...
NiziU (Japanese: ニジュー; Korean: 니쥬) is a Japanese girl group formed by JYP Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment Japan. The group is composed of nine...
Development 1 with Gunpei Yokoi, who developed the hugely successful Game & Watch and Game Boy handheld game consoles. In 1996, Yokoi left Nintendo which caused...
manufactured by Nintendo in the late 1960s. It was created in 1966 by Gunpei Yokoi, who would later design the Love Tester, the D-pad, the Game Boy, and the...
60 yen. In 1965, Nintendo hired Gunpei Yokoi as a maintenance engineer for the assembly line. However, Yokoi soon became famous for much more than his...
employee of the company. Yokoi was moved to the newly created department and was responsible for coordinating various projects. Yokoi's experience in manufacturing...
named Gunpei Yokoi playing with a simple extendable claw, something Yokoi made to amuse himself during his break. Yamauchi ordered Yokoi to develop the...
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