Tadao (written: 忠雄, 忠夫, 忠男, 忠生, 忠郎 or 理男) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
*, Japanese architect
*, Japanese ''daimyō''
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Tadao Baba
is a retired Japanese motorcycle engineer, the original designer of the Honda Fireblade.
Career
Baba joined Honda Motorcycles from high school in 1962, aged 18 — the company itself was only 14 years old. Working in the machinery section, he mad ...
(born 1944), Japanese motorcycle engineer
*, Japanese banker
*, Japanese photographer
*, Japanese footballer and manager
*, Japanese screenwriter and film director
*, Japanese information theorist
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Tadao Kikumoto is Roland's senior managing director and head of its R&D center. He designed the TB-303 bass synthesizer and the TR-909 drum machine. He was also the chief engineer of the Roland TR-808 drum machine.
Roland TR-808
Design
The Roland TR-808, ...
, Japanese inventor and engineer
*, Japanese shogi player
*, Japanese footballer and manager
*, Japanese photographer
*, Japanese anime director
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Tadao Nakamura
Tadao Nakamura (born 2 January 1947) is a Japanese professional golfer.
Nakamura played on the Japan Golf Tour
The Japan Golf Tour ( ja, 日本ゴルフツアー機構) is a prominent golf tour. It was founded in 1973 and as of 2006 it offers ...
(born 1947), Japanese golfer
*, Japanese mathematician
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese film critic and theorist
*, Japanese musician
*, Japanese astronomer and translator
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese mathematician
*, Japanese photographer
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Tadao Tomomatsu
Tadao Tomomatsu is an actor, instructor, and science fiction personality living in the Los Angeles, California area.
Career
Tadao has appeared in '' Diagnosis: Murder'', ''The Tracey Ullman Show'', the films ''Inspector Gadget'' and ''Godzilla'' ...
, American actor
*, Japanese diver
*, Japanese long-distance runner
*, Japanese gymnast
*, Japanese anthropologist
*, Japanese politician
*, Japanese economist and academic
*, Japanese sumo and professional wrestler
Fictional characters
*, a character in the manga series ''
Lucky Star Lucky Star, The Lucky Star or Lucky Starr may refer to:
Art, entertainment, and media Anime and manga
* ''Lucky Star'' (manga), a manga, anime, and video game series
* "Lucky Star", one of the Angel Frames from the anime and manga series ''Galaxy ...
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*, a character in the manga series ''
Ghost Sweeper Mikami
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takashi Shiina. It was published in Shogakukan's ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from May 1991 to September 1999, with its chapters collected in thirty-nine ''tankobon'' volumes. The series ex ...
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Japanese masculine given names