Maeda (前田 lit. "previous rice field") is a Japanese
surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community.
Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...
. An archaic romanization includes Mayeda. It can refer to:
People
Maeda clan
One of the traditional Japanese clans and prominent family during the Sengoku period of Japanese history:
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Maeda Toshimasa, ''daimyō'', vassal of Oda Nobuhide
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Maeda Toshiie, son of Maeda Toshimasa, famous as million-''koku'' ''daimyō''
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Maeda Toshinaga, eldest son of Maeda Toshiie
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Maeda Toshitsune, brother and heir to Maeda Toshinaga
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Maeda Keiji, nephew of Maeda Toshiie by Toshihisa Maeda
*Marquis
Toshinari Maeda, World War II general
Others
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Ai Maeda (voice actress) (born 1975), voice actor
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Ai Maeda (actress), actress
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Aki Maeda
is a Japanese actress and singer. She has an older sister named Ai Maeda.
She is perhaps best known in the west for her role as Noriko Nakagawa in the controversial 2000 film '' Battle Royale'', which she reprised for its sequel '' Battle R ...
, actress and singer
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Akira Maeda
(born Go Il-myeong (Hangul: 고일명, Hanja: 高日明), January 24, 1959) is a Japanese mixed martial arts promoter, writer and retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist of Korean descent. Maeda was also known by the ring name K ...
, professional wrestler
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Atsuko Maeda, actress and singer
*, Japanese Paralympic swimmer
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Maeda Genzō, early photographer
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Daizen Maeda
is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a winger or striker for Scottish Premiership side Celtic and the Japan national team.
Club career
Matsumoto Yamaga
In 2016, Maeda joined Matsumoto Yamaga FC. He got his J-League debut ...
, Japanese footballer
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Gōki Maeda
is a Japanese actor. He is represented with Horipro.
Biography
In 1997, Maeda joined as a first generation member of the Horipro Improvement Academy. In 2003, he became a Terebi Senshi in the NHK Educational TV series ''Tensai terebi-kun Max'' ...
, actor
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Gordon Maeda, Japanese–American actor
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Hiroshi Maeda, stuntman and suit actor
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Hiroshi Maeda (chemist), chemist known for EPR effect
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Hirotake Maeda Hirotake Maeda is Professor of History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Tokyo Metropolitan University. He specializes in Middle Eastern Studies, Eurasian Studies, and the histories of Iran and the Caucasus. He focuses in particula ...
, historian
*, Japanese long-distance runner
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John Maeda, graphic designer and computer scientist
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Jun Maeda, writer, lyricist, composer
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Kaoru Maeda, professional wrestler
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Kazuhiro Maeda, long-distance runner
*, Japanese basketball coach
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Kenta Maeda, baseball pitcher
*Kentaro Maeda, actor, portrays Ikki Igarashi in
Kamen Rider Revice
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Mahiro Maeda, artist, writer and director of anime
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Michiko Maeda, film and television actress
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Mitsuyo Maeda
,Virgílio, pp. 22–25
a Brazilian naturalized as Otávio Maeda (),Virgílio, p. 9
was a Japanese ''judōka'' (judo practitioner) and prizefighter in no holds barred competitions, also being one of the first documented mixed martial artists of t ...
, judoka, fundamental to the creation of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
*, Japanese table tennis player
*, Japanese badminton player
*, Japanese speed skater
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Naoki Maeda (disambiguation) Naoki Maeda may refer to:
*Naoki Maeda (composer)
(born April 28, 1969) is a Japanese composer best known for composing and arranging the music for Konami music video games, including the ''Dance Dance Revolution'' and ''Bemani'' series.
Bi ...
, multiple people
*, Japanese go player
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Nobuteru Maeda
is a Japanese male singer-songwriter from Atsugi, Kanagawa. He is signed onto Sony Music Japan
, often abbreviated as SMEJ or simply SME, and also known as Sony Music Japan for short (stylized as ''SonyMusic''), is a Japanese music arm f ...
, vocalist
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Nobuyo Maeda, geneticist and medical researcher
*, Japanese jazz composer and pianist
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Ryoichi Maeda
is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is the currently assistant coach of Japan national team.
Club career
Maeda was born in Kobe, Japan but spent his childhood in the United States. He was educated at and pl ...
, Japanese footballer
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Maeda Seison
was the art-name of a nihonga painter in the Taishō and Shōwa periods of Japan. His legal name was Maeda Renzō. He is considered one of the greatest contemporary Japanese painters, and one of the leaders of the Nihonga movement.
Biography
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, ''Nihonga'' painter
*, Japanese golfer
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Shinzo Maeda
was a Japanese photographer famous for landscape photographs and movies.
He published 46 photography books in Japan, and founded the Tankei Photo Agency Co. The Shinzo Maeda Photo Art Gallery in Biei, Hokkaidō, opened in 1987, and exhibits a ...
, photographer
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Steven Maeda
Steven Maeda is an American television producer and screenwriter. He has written episodes of television series such as ''Harsh Realm'', ''The X-Files'', ''CSI: Miami'', ''Lost'', and ''Day Break''. He has also served as a supervising producer on ...
, television writer
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Tadashi Maeda (admiral)
was a high-ranking Imperial Japanese Navy officer during the Pacific War. Maeda played an important role in Indonesian independence; he met Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta at his house in Jakarta on 16 August 1945 and his house was used for drafting th ...
, admiral
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Tatsuyuki Maeda
is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. Its international branches, Sega of America and Sega Europe, are headquartered in Irvine, California and London, respectively. Its division ...
, video game composer
*, Japanese banker and chief executive
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Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda
(born 3 March 1949) is a Japanese prelate of the Catholic Church. He has been Archbishop of Osaka since 2014. He was Bishop of Hiroshima from 2011 to 2014. Pope Francis elevated him to cardinal on 28 June 2018.
Biography
Thomas Aquino Manyo M ...
, Cardinal of the Catholic Church
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Toshio Maeda
is an erotic manga artist who was prolific in the 1980s and '90s. Several of Maeda's works have been used as a basis for original video animations (OVA) including ''La Blue Girl'', ''Adventure Kid'', '' Demon Beast Invasion'', ''Demon Warrior Ko ...
, Japanese manga artist
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Yonezō Maeda
was a politician and cabinet minister in the pre-war Empire of Japan.
Maeda was a native of Wakayama Prefecture, and a graduate of the Tokyo Hōgakuin (the predecessor to the law school of Chuo University). He received his law degree in 1903. He ...
, politician, cabinet minister
*, Japanese enka singer
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Yuuka Maeda, member of Jpop group S/mileage
Fictional characters
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Maeda (''Asobi Asobase''), from the manga series ''Asobi Asobase''
*Akira Maeda, a character in the manga ''
Cromartie High School
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiji Nonaka and published in Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from August 2000 to May 2006. It follows the everyday life of Takashi Kamiyama and his odd classmates at Cromartie High ...
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Ema Maeda, from ''Love Hina''
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Hayato Maeda
This is the list of characters in the ''Yu-Gi-Oh! GX'' animated series. The official English anime and the English manga by VIZ Media have changed character names.
Main characters
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:
:The main protagonist of the series. He is described as an e ...
(Chumley Huffington), from ''Yu-Gi-Oh! GX''
*Kunihiko Maeda, from the
''Parasite Eve'' video game
*Kazuya Maeda, from ''
Photo Kano''
Companies
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Maeda Corporation, a holding company
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Maeda Industries (formerly Maeda Iron Works Company), a manufacturer of SunTour bicycle drive-train components
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