Tanaka

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People with the surname

• Template:Nihongo, Japanese musician formerly known as Boku no Lyric no Bōyomi
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese hurdler
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese singer and model, member of girl group MEOVV
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese women's footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Atsuko Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• Ayumi Tanaka (born 1986), Japanese pianist and composer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese aikidoka
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese model and actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese Buddhist scholar and preacher
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese speed skater
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese playwright and dramatist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese merchant
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese photographer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese botanist and mycologist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese baseball player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese basketball player
• Dean Tanaka, the birth name of Dean Cain (born 1966), American actor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese Nordic combined skier
• Template:Ill (1901–1980), Japanese police officer and politician
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese anime producer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor
• Elly Tanaka (born 1965), American biochemist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actress and voice actress
• Eugenia Tanaka (born 1987), Indonesian-born Australian badminton player
• Evelyn Tanaka, Canadian politician
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese statesman and educator
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese rugby union player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese martial artist
• Gary A. Tanaka (born 1943), Japanese-American businessman and philanthropist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese rugby union player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese general, politician, and Prime Minister of Japan
• Haruko Tanaka, American artist and filmmaker
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese composer and arranger
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese golfer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese novelist
• Hideo Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese gymnast
• Hime Tanaka (田中ヒメ), Japanese singer and HimeHina Virtual YouTuber group
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese composer and musician
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese decathlete
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese video game developer, producer, director and designer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese high jumper
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese field hockey player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese figure skater
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese baseball player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese general
• Hisao Tanaka, also known as Martin Tanaka (died 1991), American professional wrestler
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese rangaku scholar, engineer and inventor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese swimmer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese academic, art historian and curator
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese graphic designer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese writer
• Template:Nihongo, born Tanaka Jun (1908–1977), Japanese Nihonga painter
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese field hockey player
• Janice Tanaka, American artist
• Janis Tanaka (born 1963), American musician
• Jeffrey S. Tanaka (1958–1992), American psychologist and statistician
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese screenwriter
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese mechanical engineer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese rower
• Jun Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese synchronized swimmer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actor
• Template:Nihongo, oldest verified Japanese person ever
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese composer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese drifting driver
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese modern pentathlete
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese gymnast
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese baseball player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese politician
• Kazuo Tanaka, Japanese engineer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese figure skater
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese politician
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Kenichi Tanaka, Japanese mixed martial artist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese baseball player
• Kenneth K. Tanaka (born 1947), Japanese-born American Buddhist writer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese baseball player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese field hockey player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actress and director
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese swimmer
• Kohei Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese baseball player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese chemist
• Koichi Tanaka (fighter) (born 1971), Japanese mixed martial artist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer and manager
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese photographer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese singer-songwriter, actor and idol
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese videographer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese writer and translator
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese boxer
• Kōtarō Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese rhythmic gymnast
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese manga artist and character designer
• Luana Tanaka (born 1989), Brazilian actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese long-distance runner
• Template:Nihongo Japanese politician
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese basketball player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actress
• Marcio Tanaka (born 1980), Japanese-Brazilian baseball player
• Marcus Tulio Tanaka (born 1981) Brazilian-born Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese tennis player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese writer
• Masahiko Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese baseball player
• Masako Tanaka, known as Mineko Iwasaki (born 1949), Japanese geisha
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese swimmer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese manga artist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese professional wrestler
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese singer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese manga artist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese singer and actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese mixed martial artist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese badminton player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese model, television personality and actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese judoka
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese volleyball player and coach
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese idol
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese dancer and actor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese women's footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese luger
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese announcer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese handball player
• Minoru Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese feminist and writer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese cyclist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese synchronized swimmer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese fencer
• Naoki Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese film director
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese field hockey player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese former executive director of the International Energy Agency
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese economic botanist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese aquatic botanist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese long-distance runner
• Pat Tanaka (born 1961), American professional wrestler
• Professor Tanaka (1930–2000), American professional wrestler
• Paul Tanaka American law enforcement officer and politician
• Template:Jp, Japanese painter
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese admiral
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese singer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actress and television personality
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese singer and voice actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese artistic gymnast
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actress, television personality and singer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese writer and artist
• Ronald Phillip Tanaka (1944–2007), Japanese-American poet and editor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese ice hockey player
• Ryohei Tanaka (1933–2019), Japanese artist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese politician
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese general
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese journalist
• Sakuji Tanaka, Japanese businessman
• Sara Tanaka (born 1978), American actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese swimmer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese baseball player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese taiko player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese boxing trainer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese rower
• Shelley Tanaka, Canadian editor, author, translator, and writing teacher
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese ichthyologist and professor of zoology
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese long-distance runner
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese badminton player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese judoka
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese beach volleyball player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese samurai and assassin
• Shingai Tanaka (1942–2007), Japanese calligrapher
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese ski jumper
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese photographer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer and manager
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese general
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese professional wrestler
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese physicist, music theorist, and inventor
• Template:Nihongo, 17th-century Japanese merchant and explorer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese politician and conservationist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese baseball player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese politician
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese baseball player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese figure skater
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese screenwriter and playwright
• Takashi Tanaka, a.k.a. Banjō Ginga (born 1948), Japanese voice actor
• Takahiro Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese biathlete
• Tatsuya Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese motorcycle racer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese anti-nuclear and anti-war activist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese Paralympic athlete
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actor
• Tetsuya Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• Togo Tanaka (1916–2009), American journalist and newspaper editor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese photographer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese film director
• Tommy Tanaka, Guam politician
• Tomohiro Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese ice dancer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese long-distance runner
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese film producer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese shogi player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese samurai
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese table tennis player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese politician
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese composer
• Toshiya Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese equestrian
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese diplomat
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese politician
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese baseball player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Yasuhiro Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Yasuo Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese artist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese ice hockey player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese women's footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese businessman
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese novelist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese table tennis player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese civil servant and naturalist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese swimmer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese shogi player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese comedian
• Yuka Tanaka (born 1974), Japanese tennis player
• Yuki Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese swimmer
• Yukio Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese biathlete
• Yūsuke Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people

Fictional characters

• Lady Tanaka, is the main antagonist in the movie "The Punisher"(1989)
• Tanaka, a character in the manga series Black Butler
• Tanaka, the household servant in Full Moon o Sagashite
• Tanaka, the Usami household butler in Junjo Romantica
• Tanaka, from Kimi ni Todoke
• Tanaka, a character in the light novel series Mayoi Neko Overrun
• Tanaka, from Tanaka-kun is Always Listless
• Mr. Tanaka, from F-Zero GX
• Mr. Tanaka, from Sonic X
• Mr. Tanaka, from the anime Gantz
• President Tanaka, from Persona 3
• Aiko Tanaka from Oyasumi Punpun
• Asuka Tanaka, from Sound! Euphonium
• David Tanaka, a character in the soap opera Neighbours
• Drew Tanaka from The Heroes of Olympus and The Kane Chronicles
• Gundham Tanaka from Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
• Holly Tanaka, a character in the video Game Halo 5: Guardians
• Ichiro Tanaka, character from Medal of Honor: Rising Sun
• Isuro Tanaka, from the film Major League II
• Tanaka Kazuya, from School Rumble
• Ken Tanaka, a character in the television series Glee
• Kida Tanaka, from Fear & Hunger 2: Termina
• Koyuki Tanaka, from SBK: Snowboard Kids
• Leo Tanaka, a character in the soap opera Neighbours
• Opal Tanaka, a Marvel Comics character
• Ryūnosuke Tanaka from Haikyū!!
• Shinichiro Tanaka, from Battle Royale (film, Special Edition)
• Shinji Tanaka, from Yakuza (video game)
• Souichirou Tanaka, character from Genshiken
• Taro Tanaka, from Taro the Space Alien (Uchūjin Tanaka Tarō)
• Tiger Tanaka, from the James Bond novel and film You Only Live Twice
• Tom Tanaka, from Durarara!
• Lt. Yoshi Tanaka from Magnum, P.I.
• Yukio "Koyuki" Tanaka, main character of the manga series BECK
• Tricia Tanaka, featured in the episode Tricia Tanaka is Dead from the TV show Lost (2004 TV series)

See also

• Template:Nihongo, Japanese gymnast
• Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii (born 1969), Japanese linguist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese mathematician