Hanako (given name)
Hanako is a female Japanese given name. The name can have different meanings, one of them being 花子, meaning "flower child", and another being 華子.
It is often seen as an archetypal name for females. It was a popular name for female elephants in Japan imported in the late 1940s and early 1950s; the first part of the name, Hana, could be taken as reference to an elephant's nose.
People
- Hanako Footman, British-Japanese actress and writer
- Hanako Greensmith, American actress
- Hanako Honda, Japanese politician
- Hanako Jimi, Japanese politician
- Hanako Miura, Japanese gymnast
- Hanako Muraoka, Japanese novelist and translator
- Hanako Nakamori, Japanese professional wrestler
- Hanako Okada, Japanese lawyer and politician
- Hanako Oku, Japanese singer and songwriter
- Hanako Oshima, Japanese singer
- Hanako Takigawa, Japanese actress, tarento and gravure idol
- Hanako Tokachi, Japanese actress and tarento
- Hanako Tsugaru, later Hanako, Princess Hitachi of Japan
- Hanako, Japanese professional wrestler
- Hanako Utsumi, Japanese rugby sevens player
- Hisa Ōta, Japanese actress whose stage name was "Hanako"
Fictional characters
- Hanako or Delia Ketchum, the mother of protagonist Ash Ketchum in the Pokémon anime
- Hanako, a character of the manga Hanako and the Terror of Allegory
- Hanako, a character of the drama Hanako to Anne
- Hanako Hanazawa, a classmate character from Sazae-san
- Hanako Ikezawa, a heroine with debilitating social anxiety derived from her burn scars from the visual novel Katawa Shoujo
- Hanako Ichiro, a Shiba Inu owned by Inuyashiki Ichiro, from the manga Inuyashiki by Hiroya Oku
- Hanako-kun, formerly Amane Yugi, the title character from the anime and manga series Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun
- Hanako Ohmuro, a character from YuruYuri
- Hanako-san, yokai in the girl toilet in Friday the 13th and Tuesday the 13th
- Hanako Sonoyama, a character from Little Battlers Experience WARS
- Hanako Urawa, a character from Blue Archive
- Hanako Yamada, a character of the video game Yandere Simulator
- Hanako Yumadagi, a main and protagonist of character of anime series ''Ongaku Shoujo''
Other
- Hanako (elephant), an elephant who lived in Japan
- Hanako (fish), a fish which lived to be more than 200 years old