Nakaya (written: 中谷, 仲谷 or 中矢) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*, Japanese racing driver
*, Japanese artist
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Katsuhiko Nakaya (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, 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