Nakaya (written: 中谷, 仲谷 or 中矢) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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*, Japanese artist
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Katsuhiko Nakaya
Katsuhiko Nakaya (born 22 April 1957) is a Brazilian sprinter. He competed in the 100 metres at the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los ...
(born 1957), Brazilian sprinter
*, Japanese ichthyologist
*, Japanese judoka
*, Japanese voice actress, singer and idol
*, Japanese physicist and writer
*, Japanese long-distance runner
See also
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Nakaya Islands
The Nakaya Islands are a small group of islands in Crystal Sound, about 18 km northeast of Cape Rey, Graham Land in Antarctica. They were named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Ukichiro Nakaya (1900–62), a ...
, an island group of Graham Land, Antarctica
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Nakaya Fountain Pens
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Nakatani, other Japanese surnames using the same ''
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 ...
'' 中谷 or 仲谷.
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Japanese-language surnames