Masamitsu Nakamura (b. 1965) is an amateur astronomer and medical technologist at the Hamamatsu Rosai Hospital. During his 25-year visual search for comets he discovered C/1994 N1 (Nakamura-Nishimura-Machholz).
Discovered on 16-11-1999 in Kuma Kogen by Nakamura, A.