Tanaka

Tanaka
Family name
Pronunciation	Tanaka
Meaning	varies
Region of origin	Japanese
Footnotes:

Tanaka (たなか) is the fourth most common Japanese surname. The surname "Tanaka" refers to several different surnames written with different kanji: ricefield & middle (田中), many & middle (多中), many & relationship (多仲), another & middle (他中), shelf & low (棚下), shelf & summer (棚夏), many & name & congratulation (多名賀).

People

• Asuna Tanaka (footballer)
• Atsuko Tanaka voice actor
• Atsuko Tanaka (artist)
• Chōzaburō Tanaka (Japanese botanist)
• Dean Tanaka (aka Dean Cain)
• Eizō Tanaka (film director and actor)
• Giichi Tanaka (former Prime Minister of Japan)
• Haruo Tanaka (actor)
• Hayuma Tanaka (footballer)
• Hidemitsu Tanaka (author)
• Hideyuki Tanaka (voice actor)
• Hirokazu Tanaka (musician)
• Hiromichi Tanaka (video game producer)
• Hisao Tanaka (wrestler)
• Hisashige Tanaka (founder of Tanaka Seizosho, subsequently renamed Toshiba)
• Hitomi Tanaka (model turned pornographic actress)
• Tanaka Isson (Nihonga painter)
• Jun Tanaka (poet) (author)
• Jun Tanaka (footballer) (born 1983), footballer
• Kakuei Tanaka (former Prime Minister of Japan)
• Kinuyo Tanaka (actress)
• Koichi Tanaka (chemist)
• Koki Tanaka (singer, actor)
• Kōtarō Tanaka (photographer)
• Machi Tanaka (long-distance runner)
• Makiko Tanaka (politician)
• Marcus Tulio Tanaka (footballer)
• Masahiko Tanaka (voice actor)
• Masahiro Tanaka (professional baseball player)
• Masako Tanaka (Mineko Iwasaki) (geisha)
• Masato Tanaka (professional wrestler)
• Mayumi Tanaka (voice actor)
• Miho Tanaka (athlete)
• Minoru Tanaka (wrestler) (professional wrestler)
• Misako Tanaka (actress)
• Naoki Tanaka (b. 1971), a member of the comedy duo Cocorico
• Nobuo Tanaka (born 1950), Executive Director of the International Energy Agency
• Nobuyuki Tanaka (botanist)
• Paul Tanaka (sheriff)
• Raizō Tanaka (Japanese Rear Admiral during WW2)
• Reina Tanaka (singer)
• Rena Tanaka (actress)
• Rie Tanaka (voice actor)
• Sara Tanaka (actress)
• Shelley Tanaka (Canadian editor and author)\
• Shigeho Tanaka (ichthyologist)
• Shinako Tanaka (beach volleyball player)
• Shinobu Tanaka (video game composer)
• Shohé Tanaka (music theorist and physicist)
• Takashi Tanaka, a.k.a. Banjō Ginga (voice actor)
• Tatsuya Tanaka (figure skater) (born 1988), figure skater
• Tatsuya Tanaka (footballer) (born 1982), footballer
• Tia Tanaka (Asian-American pornstar)
• Tanaka Tosa (samurai)
• Tommy Tanaka (Guam politician)
• Professor Toru Tanaka (professional wrestler and actor)
• Toshiaki Tanaka (table tennis player)
• Yasuo Tanaka (astronomer) (asteroid 4387 Tanaka is named for him)
• Yasuo Tanaka (author, politician)
• Yoshiki Tanaka (author)
• Yoshiko Tanaka (actress)
• Yuji Tanaka (comedian)
• Yukio Tanaka (biwa)

Fictional characters

• Isuro Tanaka, from the feature film Major League II
• Ken Tanaka, football coach from the television series Glee
• Mariko Tanaka, from Wing Commander
• Mr. Tanaka, from Sonic X
• Mr. Tanaka, from the anime Gantz
• President Tanaka, from Persona 3
• Shinichiro Tanaka, from Battle Royale (film, Special Edition)
• Shinji Tanaka, from Yakuza (video game)
• Souichirou Tanaka, a character from Genshiken
• Tanaka, previous Head Butler of the Phantomhive household, a character from Black Butler
• Tanaka Kazuya, from School Rumble
• Taro Tanaka, from Taro the Space Alien (Uchūjin Tanaka Tarō)
• Tiger Tanaka, from the James Bond novel and film You Only Live Twice
• Yukio "Koyuki" Tanaka, main character of the manga series BECK
• Umenomori's Butler, Tanaka Mayoi Neko Overrun
• Ichiro Tanaka, character from Medal of Honor: Rising Sun
• Tanaka, the Usami household butler in Junjo Romantica
• Tanaka, the household servant in Full Moon o Sagashite
• Tanaka, from Kimi ni Todoke

Other

• The Tanaka Business School (Part of Imperial College London)
• Tanaka Power Equipment, makers of small internal combustion engines and associated machinery
• Tanaka Manufacturing, which became Toshiba
• Tanaka Memorial, an alleged Japanese war planning document

See also

• Japanese name