Kazuo Kudo

Kazuo (カズオ, かずお) is a masculine Japanese given name.

Possible spellings

It has several written forms, and the meaning depends on the characters used (usually kanji, but sometimes hiragana). Common forms include:
* 一雄: first son, first in leadership/excellence
* 一夫: first son
* 一男: first man/male
* 和夫: harmonious/peaceful man
* 和男: harmonious/peaceful man
* かずお ( hiragana)
* カズオ ( katakana)

People with the name

*, Japanese sport wrestler
* Kazuo Aoki, Japanese government minister during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and into World War II
*, Japanese shogi player
* Kazuo Chiba (born 1940), aikido
* Kazuo Harada (died 1998), anime producer, audio director, and sound effects director
* Kazuo Hirai (平井一夫, born 1964), President/CEO of Sony Computer
* Kazuo Endo, Kobe earthquake survivor
* Kazuo Hashimoto, late Japanese inventor of Caller ID and the telephone answering machine, including the ansafone.
*, Japanese actor and voice actor
* Kazuo Hiramatsu (1947–2020), accounting scholar, president of Kwansei Gakuin University
* Kazuo Hirotsu (1891–1968), Japanese novelist and literary critic active in the Shōwa period of Japan
* Kazuo Ichinohe (born 1941), Japanese voice actor (stage name Shin Aomori)
*, Japanese aikidoka
* Kazuo Inamori (born 1932), Japanese businessman
*, Japanese cyclist
* Kazuo Ishiguro (石黒一雄, born 1954), British author
*, Japanese table tennis player
*, Japanese high jumper
* Kazuo Kitagawa (北側一雄, born 1953), Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the Japanese Cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi
*, Japanese diver
* Kazuo Koike (小池一夫, born 1936), manga artist
* Kazuo Komizu (born 1946), Japanese film director
* Kazuo Kubokawa (窪川一雄, 1903–1943), astronomer
*, Japanese actor, voice actor and theatre director
*, Japanese ice hockey player
* Kazuo Matsui (松井稼頭央, born 1975), baseball player
* Kazuo Misaki (born 1976), Japanese professional mixed martial arts fighter and former judoka
* Kazuo Miyagawa (宮川一夫, 1908–1999), cinematographer
* Kazuo Mizutani (水谷和夫), Chief of Staff of Japanese Imperial Guard during the close of World War II
* Kazuo Nakamura (1926–2002), Japanese-Canadian painter and sculptor
*, Japanese basketball coach
* Kazuo Nakanishi (1922–2003), briefly the leader of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate in the chaotic years of the Yama-Ichi War
*, Japanese magazine editor and photography critic
*, Japanese swimmer
* Kazuo Ohno (1906–2010), Japanese dancer associated with Butoh
* Kazuo Oka (born 1948), Japanese voice actor
*, Japanese-American professional wrestler
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese footballer and manager
*, Japanese racewalker
* Kazuo Sakamaki (酒巻和男, 1918–1999), first prisoner of war held by the US in World War II
* Kazuo Sakurada (1948–2020), known as Mr. Sakurada) retired Japanese professional wrestler
*, Japanese cross-country skier
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese sport wrestler
*, Japanese shogi player
*, Japanese mixed martial artist
* Kazuo Taoka (田岡一雄, 1913–1981), Godfather of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate
* Kazuo Umezu (楳図かずお, born 1936), horror manga author
*, Japanese businessman
* Kazuo Yamada (1912–1991), Japanese conductor
*, Japanese sociologist

Fictional characters

* Kazuo Tengan, the antagonist of ''Danganronpa''
* Kazuo Nakano, character in Yudetamago's manga series '' Kinnikuman''
* Kazuo Saki, brother of the Shredder from the 1987–1996 animated TV series, '' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''
* Kazuo Uzuki, fictional baseball player that Topps created as an April Fools' Day hoax
* Kazuo Kiriyama, the primary antagonist of '' Battle Royale''
* Kazuo Makunoichi, fictional character in ''Hajime no Ippo''

Video games

* Kazuo or Go! Sudoku, is the name for the Japanese release of the PlayStation Portable puzzle game
* Kazuo Sawa is the name of a video game composer. Notable works include the soundtracks for '' The Battle of Olympus'' and ''Rivercity Ransom''
* Kazuo Akuji is the leader of the Ronin in the Saints Row 2
* Kazuo Hoshiro is the leader of the Investigation Team of Sweet Home (video game)

References

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Japanese masculine given names