Kita is a Japanese and Polish surname. As a
Japanese surname
Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames, as determined by their kanji, although many of these are Japanese orthography, pronounced and romanization of Japanese, romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames w ...
it might be written various ways in
kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese ...
(e.g. meaning "north"; meaning "field of trees"; meaning "many happinesses").
Notable people with the surname include:
* , Japanese baseball outfielder
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Candace Kita
Candace Kita (born December 27, 1967) is an American actress.
Career
Acting
Kita's first role was as a news anchor in the 1991 movie ''Stealth Hunters''. Kita's first recurring television role was in Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox's ''Masked Ri ...
(born 1967), American actress
* , Japanese long-distance runner
* , Japanese philosopher
* , Japanese football goalkeeper
* , Japanese vocalist and guitarist
* , Japanese novelist
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Przemysław Kita
Przemysław Kita (born 19 October 1993) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a striker for III liga
III liga (Trzecia liga) is a Polish football league that sits in the fourth tier of the Polish football league system. Until t ...
(born 1993), Polish football striker
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Regina Wasilewska-Kita
Regina Wasilewska-Kita (born 27 February 1951 in Trakucicha) is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 6890 votes in 41 Szczecin
Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stettin ; Latin: ''Sedinum'' or ''Ste ...
(born 1951), Polish politician
* , Japanese ''ryūkōka'' singer
* , lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army
* , Japanese gymnast
* , Japanese basketball coach
* , Japanese furniture designer
* , Japanese football defender
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Waldemar Kita
Waldemar Kita (born 1953) is a Polish millionaire businessman residing in France.[ ...](_blank)
(born 1953), Polish businessman
References
See also
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Japanese-language surnames
Polish-language surnames