Oda (surname)

Oda (written: 織田 or 小田) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Nobuhide Oda (1510–1551), Japanese warlord and magistrate of lower Owari Province
• Nobunaga Oda (1534–1582), initiator of the unification of Japan under the shogunate
• Nobutada Oda (1557–1582), Japanese samurai, eldest son of Nobunaga Oda
• Nobukatsu Oda (1558–1630), Japanese samurai, second son of Nobunaga Oda
• Hidenobu Oda (1580–1605), son of Nobutada Oda
• Ben Oda (1915–1984), Japanese-American comics letterer
• Bev Oda (born 1944), Canadian politician
• Eiichirō Oda (born 1975), Japanese manga artist, author of One Piece
• Kazumasa Oda (born 1947), Japanese singer-songwriter and composer
• Nobunari Oda (born 1987), Japanese figure skater
• Sakura Oda (born 1999), Japanese singer, member of Morning Musume
• Shigeru Oda (born 1924), Japanese jurist, judge on the International Court of Justice from 1975 to 2003
• Sophie Tamiko Oda (born 1997), American actress
• Tetsurō Oda (born 1958), Japanese composer, record producer, and singer-songwriter
• Yūji Oda, (born 1967), Japanese actor and singer
• Yūsei Oda, (born 1969), Japanese voice actor

Fictional characters:

• Nobuna Oda, the main female protagonist in The Ambition of Oda Nobuna
• Toshinori Oda, a character in Battle Royale
• Joseph Oda, a character from the video game The Evil Within

See also

• Oda clan (Japanese: 織田家), a Japanese feudal clan from the Muromachi/Sengoku period