People students might know...

[Otaku]

<List compiled by: Otaku, pakalika, jeisensei, Richard_Benoit,

(As people post, they will be added to the original list. Also, I am guilty of this in the list below, but if you know their occupation, please include it: Singer, dancer, TV star, etc.)
And, before someone makes a comment about the list of Pokemon, I'm in the process of making a new Pokemon point card.

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2NE1
2pm
Ai Fukuhara
Ai Kago
Ai Kato
Ai Ohtsuka
AKB48's Yuko Oshima
Akiko Nomura (TV)
Akiko Yada
Akira Fujii (magician)
Ami Suzuki
Angelina Jolie
Animal Hamaguchi
Arale-chan
Arashi
Arnold Swartzenagger
Asami Konno
Asashoryu (sumo)
Ashita's Joe
Astro Boy
Avril Lavigne
Aya Hirayama
Aya Matsuura
Aya Ueto
Ayumi Hamasaki (singer, kinda old-school)
Bakabon's Papa
Barrack Obama (president)
Batman
Beatles
Becky (TV)
Bert (Seasame Street)
Bibiru Ohki
Billy (Boot Camp)
Bird
Blackjack (anime)
Boa (Korean pop singer)
Bobby Ologun (TV, kinda old-school)
Bob Sapp (TV)
Bonnie Pink
Brad Pitt
Bump of Chicken (music group)
Chara
Chemistry (music group)
Chibi Maruko-chan
Chihiro Onitsuka
Chip-n-Dale
Choshu Koriki (comedian)
Coming Century (music group)
Conan
Cool Drive (music group)
Daisuke Matsuzaka (baseball pitcher)
Def Tech (music group, kinda old school)
Disney's Cinderella
Disney's Lilo & Stitch
Disney's Sleeping Beauty
Doraemon (anime)
Doraemon's Nobi Nobita
Double U
DownTown (Masatoshi Hamada & Hitoshi Matsumoto, comedians)
Dragonball Z (anime)
Dream
Duke Saraie (TV)
Eco Moni
Eiji Bando (TV)
Emi Suzuki
Eri Fukatsu
Ernie (Seasame Street)
Exile (music group)
GeGeGe's Kitaro
Godzilla
Gomatto
Greeeeen (music group)
Haiji
Hard Gay (TV, kinda old-school)
Harry Potter
Harumi Edo (TV's "gu gu gu" girl)
Hello Kitty
Hideaki Takizawa
Hideki Matsui (baseball outfielder)
Hidetoshi Nakata (soccer player, retired, from Yamanashi)
Hikaru Yaotome
Hiroshi Kume (news)
Hiroshi Nagano
Hitomi Yoshizawa
Hitoshi Matsumoto (Down Town, comedian)
Hyde (singer)
Ichiro Suzuki
Jean Reno
Jin Akanishi
John Lennon
Johnny Depp
Jukujo Wars
Junichiro Koizumi (former Japan Prime Minister)
Jun Matsumoto
Kaba-chan (TV gay guy, kinda old-school)
Kankichi Ryotsu
Kaori Iida
Karmen Rider
Kattun (singer)
Kazuhiro Sasaki (sports)
Kazuko Hosogi (TV)
Kazuya Kamenashi
Kei Yasuda
Keisuke Honda (soccer player)
Ken Hirai
Kenshiro
Kick the Can Crew (music group)
King Kong
Kinki Kids (music group, kinda old-school)
Kinnikuman
Kodama Hibiki
Koeda Katsura
Kogepan (cartoon character)
Koichi Wajima
Koji Murofushi (Olympic hammer toss)
Kosuke Kojima (Olympic swimmer)
Kotomitsuki
Kotoohshu (sumo)
Kumi Koda (singer)
Kumiko Yamaguchi (yakuza HS girl)
Lady Gaga
Lord of the Rings's Gandalf
Lord of the Rings's Soloman
Luigi
Lupin
Macha Macha
Madonna
Makoto Ogawa
Manako Nakano (news)
Marina Watanabe (TV)
Mario
Mari Yaguchi
Masami Nagasa (Korean actress)
Masanori Hata (TV)
Masashi Oguro (sports)
Masatoshi Hamada (Down Town, comedian)
Masa Yamamoto (sports)
Masayuki Sakamoto
Mayu Tsuruta
Megumi Okina
Mickey Mouse
Miffy
Miho Kanno
Mika Nakashima
Miki Ando (Olympic figure skater)
Miki Fujimoto
Miki Nakatani
Mini Moni (music group, came from bigger group "Morning Musume")
Minnie Mouse
Misaki Ito
Momotaro
Monta Mino (Japan's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" guy)
Morning Musume (music group)
Mr. Children (music group)
Mr. Maric (magician)
Musashi (wrestler)
Nanako Matsushima
Nankai Candies
Naomi Zaizen
Naruto Uzumaki (ninja)
Natsume Soseki (writer dude on 1,000 yen note)
Natsumi Abe
Nekobasu
NMB-48
Norihiro Nakamura (sports)
Norika Fujiwara
Noriko Kato (TV)
Noriko Yashima (TV)
Nozomi Tsuji
Oguri
One Piece's Monkey D. Luffy
Orange Range (music group from Okinawa)
Oriental Radio (comedians)
Osugi & Pko (TV)
Otoha
Pabo
Papaya Suzuki (dancer, TV, kinda old-school)
Peko-chan
Perfume
Pikachu
Pirates of the Carribean's Jack Sparrow
Pokemon_Evil_Bel(Bianca)
Pokemon_Evil_Cheren
Pokemon_Evil_Enu(N)
Pokemon_Evil_Green(Blue)
Pokemon_Evil_Jun(Barry)
Pokemon_Evil_Mitsuru(Wally)
Pokemon_Evil_Silver
Pokemon_Evil_TeamAqua
Pokemon_Evil_TeamGalactic
Pokemon_Evil_TeamPlasma
Pokemon_Evil_TeamRocket
Pokemon_Good_Haruka(May)
Pokemon_Good_Hibiki(Ethan)
Pokemon_Good_Hikari(Dawn)
Pokemon_Good_Kotone(Lyra)
Pokemon_Good_Kouki(Lucas)
Pokemon_Good_Kris
Pokemon_Good_Leaf
Pokemon_Good_Reddo
Pokemon_Good_Touko(Hilda)
Pokemon_Good_Touya(Hilbert)
Pokemon_Good_Yuuki(Brendan)
Pokemon_GymLeader,Johto_Akane(Whitney)
Pokemon_GymLeader,Johto_Hayato(Falkner)
Pokemon_GymLeader,Johto_Ibuki(Clair)
Pokemon_GymLeader,Johto_Matsuba(Morty)
Pokemon_GymLeader,Johto_Mikan(Jasmine)
Pokemon_GymLeader,Johto_Shijima(Chuck)
Pokemon_GymLeader,Johto_Tsukushi(Bugsy)
Pokemon_GymLeader,Johto_Yanagi(Pryce)
Pokemon_GymLeader,Kanto_Anzu(Janine)
Pokemon_GymLeader,Kanto_Erika
Pokemon_GymLeader,Kanto_Kasumi(Misty)
Pokemon_GymLeader,Kanto_Katsura(Blaine)
Pokemon_GymLeader,Kanto_Kyou(Koga)
Pokemon_GymLeader,Kanto_Machisu(LtSurge)
Pokemon_GymLeader,Kanto_Natsume(Sabrina)
Pokemon_GymLeader,Kanto_Sakaki(Giovanni)
Pokemon_GymLeader,Kanto_Takeshi(Brock)
Pokemon_GymLeader,OrangeCounty_Atsumi(Cissy)
Pokemon_GymLeader,OrangeCounty_Dan(Danny)
Pokemon_GymLeader,OrangeCounty_Ruriko(Luana)
Pokemon_GymLeader,OrangeCounty_Yuuji(Drake)
Pokemon_GymLeader,OrangeCounty_Ziggy(Rudy)
Ponyo
Poochi Moni
Puppet Muppet (comedian, kinda old-school)
Radwimps
Rei Amuro
Rei Kikukawa
Rena Tanaka
Rie Shibata
Rie Tomosaka
Rila Kuma
Rina Uchiyama
Ringo Shiina
Riri
Risa Niigaki
Robert (comedians, kinda old-school)
Ronaldinho
Ryoko Hirosue
Ryoko Kuninaka
Ryoko Shinohara
Ryoko Tani (Olympic judo)
Satomi Ishihara
Sayaka Ichiii
Sazae-san
Shin Chan
Shinjo Tsuyoshi (sports)
Shinzo Abe (former Japan Prime Minister)
Shiro Suzuki (TV)
Shogo Kariyazaki (TV)
Simpson's Bart
SMAP (music group, kinda old-school)
Snoopy
Son Goku (Dragonball Z)
Sonoko Suzuki (TV)
Sora Kara-chan (Sky Tree character)
Speed (music group)
Spiderman
Spitz (music group, kinda old-school)
Sponge Bob
Star Wars
Steve Jobs (Apple creator)
Superman
Takako Matsu
Takuro Ishii (sports)
Tamao Nakamura (TV)
Terry Itoh (TV)
Tokio (music group)
Tiger Woods (golfer)
Tomohiro Maeda (TV)
Tomohisa Yamashita
Toshihiko Seko
Totoro
Tsubasa Imai
Tsunku (comedian, kinda old-school)
Ultraman
Uno Kanda (TV)
Wat (music group)
Will Smith
Winnie the Pooh
Xmen
Yon Sanma (Korean actor)
Yoshihiko Inohara
Yoshio Kojima
Yoshizumi Ishihara (TV)
Yui Aragaki
Yuka (TV)
Yukie Nakama
Yuko Nakazawa
Yuko Ogura
Yumiko Shaku (TV)
Yusuke Santamaria (TV)
Yu Yamada (TV)
Zone (music group)

[pakalikaPakalika]

NMB-48, Mickey and Minne mouse, chip n dale, Conan, 2NE1, 2pm

things i see on kids desk and bags. If i see more I will add em

[jeisensei]

I didn't get a chance to look though the whole thing yet but the two in DownTown might be a good addition (Masatoshi Hamada and Hitoshi Matsumoto...both comedians).

[Kanashibari]

Wow, I feel old, considering I was already well into adulthood when a lot of these "old school" things were "new".

[Richard_BenoitEnglipedia Drone]

I used to be a "ninety-nine" fan. They are comedians but haven't done any good gags recently though. I loved the one where he dressed up as an UIltraman baddie lizard thing, and started doing missle dropkicks on everyone!

How about "Haiji"?

[Paul]

Natsumi Soseki (writer dude on 1,000 yen note)

FYI it's Natsume Soseki, a dude, Natsumi is a girls name. You might want to change the gallery photo as well.

[Otaku]

List and gallery updated.

[Paul]

Ogura Yuko http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Ogura_Yuko
Misono (Koka Kumi's younger sister)
Tano Shingo
Kameda Koki
Kameda Daiki
Kameda Tomoki (The boxing family idiots)

I might think about cutting out Asashoryu soon and adding Hakuho instead and Kotoshōgiku

The Sazae san Family

Also you might consider this too, many JHS kids have NO idea about the Lord of The Rings and the characters either.

Movies characters are constantly changing and need updating I fear.

Ryoko Tani (Olympic judo) Is now known as a politician.