Takano is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Ai Takano better known as nicknamed ''Motchin'' was a Japanese people, Japanese singer and anisong singer. He is best known for his performances of the theme songs for the anime ''Sasuraiger, Galactic Whirlwind Sasuraiger'', ''Pettonton'', and ''Kyojuu T ...

, Japanese singer *

Aya Takano is a Japanese painter, Superflat artist, manga artist, and science fiction essayist. Aya Takano is represented by Kaikai Kiki, the artistic production studio created in 2001 by Takashi Murakami. Early life and influence Takano was born in Sa ...

, Japanese artist and writer *

Aya Takano (swimmer) is a Japanese swimmer, who was selected to the national team to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, after having accepted an invitation from FINA, based on her B-standard time. She competed in the women's 400 m freestyle, where she ...

, Japanese athlete *

Takano Chōei was a prominent scholar of ''Rangaku'' (western science) during the Bakumatsu period in Japan. Life Chōei was born as Gotō Kyōsai, the third son of Gotō Sōsuke, a middle-ranking samurai in Mizusawa Domain of Mutsu Province in what is now pa ...

, scholar of the late Edo period * Takano Fusataro, Japanese labor activist *

Genshin Takano (governor of Hiroshima) was a Japanese lawyer and Home Ministry and Police Bureau government official. He was born in Fukushima Prefecture. He was a graduate of the University of Tokyo. He was governor of Yamanashi Prefecture (1941–1942) and Hiroshima Prefecture from J ...

George Takano , born June 23, 1958, is an American-Japanese retired Professional wrestling, professional wrestler better known under the ring name . He was also billed from Uganda under the alias The Cobra, a Lucha libre#Masks, masked wrestler Glossary of prof ...

, professional wrestler * Hajime Takano, Japanese journalist *

Hassei Takano born in Chiba Prefecture is a Japanese actor. He has portrayed various superheroes in tokusatsu dramas, beginning with in ''Ultraman Gaia'' in 1998, a role he reprised in the 2008 film '' Superior Ultraman 8 Brothers''. This role was followed ...

, Japanese actor *, Japanese shogi player *

Hiroshi Takano (born December 14, 1964) is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist, music arranger, guitarist and producer. In the end of 1980s and early 1990s, he recorded some successful records which were produced by Todd Rundgren. He has contributed to the w ...

, Japanese musician *Isoroku Takano, birth name of

Isoroku Yamamoto was a Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II until he was killed. Yamamoto held several important posts in the IJN, and undertook many of its changes and reor ...

, Japanese naval officer * Takano Iwasaburo, Japanese social statistician * Kazuaki Takano, Japanese writer of crime fiction *

Kikuo Takano was a Japanese poet and mathematician. He was born on Sado Island in 1927. He graduated from Utsunomiya Agricultural College in 1948. He began to write poems from the day after Japan had ended its role in World War II. Being inspired from surreal ...

, Japanese poet and mathematician * Koji Takano, Japanese football player *

Mari Takano is a Japanese composer, pianist, essayist, and teacher. Takano's work, and musical voice, has been recognized as among the most distinctive to be found amid Japanese composers of the "post-Takemitsu generation". Education Takano completed four ...

, Japanese musician *

Mark Takano Mark Allan Takano ( ; born December 10, 1960) is an American politician and academic who has been the United States representative for California's 41st congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Takano became the first ...

, U.S. politician *

Takano no Niigasa was a concubine of Emperor Kōnin of Japan and the mother of Emperor Kanmu. Her full name was Takano no Asomi Niigasa. Life Niigasa was a daughter of Yamato no Ototsugu (和乙継). She became a concubine of Prince Shirakabe (白壁王), grandson ...

, 8th-century concubine *, Japanese shogi player *

Shiho Takano is a Japanese actress who is represented by the talent agency, Tom company. Takano's husband is actor Yukiya Kitamura is a Japanese actor represented by Tom company. His father is actor Kazuo Kitamura and his wife is actress Shiho Takano. B ...

, Japanese actress *

Shunji Takano Shunji Takano (高野俊二 ''Takano Shunji'') (born February 16, 1964) is a Japanese retired professional wrestler. Early life Takano was born on February 16, 1964. His father was a black American Marine who belonged to the Iwakuni base, and ha ...

, Japanese wrestler *

Susumu Takano is a Japanese former sprinter who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics, in the 1988 Summer Olympics, and in the 1992 Summer Olympics. Personal bests Records *200 metres **Former Japanese record holder - 20.74 s (wind: -0.4 m/s) ...

, Japanese track athlete * Teppei Takano, Japanese ski jumper *

Tetsu Takano is a Japanese rock musician and singer-songwriter. He first became known as vocalist of the visual kei rock band Malice Mizer from 1992 to 1994. After leaving them, Tetsu formed and performed with Mega8Ball from 1995 to 1997. From 1999 to 200 ...

, Japanese rock musician *, Japanese model and boxer *

Toshiyuki Takano is a Japanese Ambassador to Germany, previously to South Korea (2002–2005) and Singapore (2001). In February 2005 he sparked a controversy in South Korea when he stated that the Liancourt Rocks in the Sea of Japan The Sea of Japan is the ...

, Japanese diplomat *

Tsugi Takano was a female novelist from Hamamatsu in Shizuoka prefecture, Japan. She was born in 1890 as the second daughter of a local merchant. In 1904, she entered Hamamatsu Women's High School and in 1907 she entered Shizuoko Women's High School. However, ...

, Japanese novelist *

Urara Takano , known by her stage name is a Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator from Togane, Chiba. She is currently affiliated with and representative of REMAX. Her most prominent role has been in the '' Sakura Wars'' video game franchise, where s ...

, Japanese voice actress *, Japanese speed skater *, Japanese speed skater

Fictional characters

* Bungo Takano, a character in ''Shadow Star'' *

Kyohei Takano This is a list of fictional characters, main characters as well as some supporting characters from ''The Wallflower (manga), The Wallflower'', a Japanese manga that was also adapted into an anime series and a live-action drama. The manga's plot ...

, a character in ''The Wallflower'' *Miyo Takano, a character in ''

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni is a Japanese murder mystery dōjin soft visual novel series produced by 07th Expansion that comprises the first two entries of the ''When They Cry'' franchise. The series focuses on a group of young friends living in the fic ...

Fictional characters

See also