Tanaka


Tanaka is the fourth most common Japanese surname. It is typically written with the kanji for ricefield & middle. Less common variants include many & middle, many & relationship, another & middle, shelf & low, shelf & summer and many & name & congratulation.

People with the surname

  • Tanaka, Japanese musician formerly known as Boku no Lyric no Bōyomi
  • Aimi Tanaka, Japanese voice actress
  • Akira Tanaka, Japanese hurdler
  • Anna Tanaka, Japanese singer and model, member of girl group MEOVV
  • Ao Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Asuna Tanaka, Japanese women's footballer
  • Atomu Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Atsuko Tanaka, multiple people
  • Ayumi Tanaka, Japanese pianist and composer
  • Bansen Tanaka, Japanese aikidoka
  • Chie Tanaka, Japanese model and actress
  • Tanaka Chigaku, Japanese Buddhist scholar and preacher
  • Chikage Tanaka, Japanese speed skater
  • Tanaka Chikao, Japanese playwright and dramatist
  • Tanaka Chōbei, Japanese merchant
  • Chōtoku Tanaka, Japanese photographer
  • Chōzaburō Tanaka, Japanese botanist and mycologist
  • Daijiro Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
  • Daiki Tanaka, Japanese basketball player
  • Dean Tanaka, the birth name of Dean Cain, American actor
  • Eiichi Tanaka, Japanese Nordic combined skier
  • , Japanese police officer and politician
  • Eiko Tanaka, Japanese anime producer
  • Eizō Tanaka, Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor
  • Elly Tanaka, American biochemist
  • Eri Tanaka, Japanese actress and voice actress
  • Eugenia Tanaka, Indonesian-born Australian badminton player
  • Evelyn Tanaka, Canadian politician
  • Tanaka Fujimaro, Japanese statesman and educator
  • Fumiaki Tanaka, Japanese rugby union player
  • Fumon Tanaka, Japanese martial artist
  • Gary A. Tanaka, Japanese-American businessman and philanthropist
  • Ginnosuke Tanaka, Japanese rugby union player
  • Tanaka Giichi, Japanese general, politician, and Prime Minister of Japan
  • Haruko Tanaka, American artist and filmmaker
  • Haruo Tanaka, Japanese actor
  • Hayuma Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Hidekazu Tanaka, Japanese composer and arranger
  • Hidemichi Tanaka, Japanese golfer
  • Hidemitsu Tanaka, Japanese novelist
  • Hideo Tanaka, multiple people
  • Hideyuki Tanaka, Japanese voice actor
  • Hikaru Tanaka, Japanese gymnast
  • Hime Tanaka , Japanese singer and HimeHina Virtual YouTuber group
  • Hiroaki Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Hitomi Tanaka, Japanese nude and former pornographic actress
  • Hirokazu Tanaka, Japanese composer and musician
  • Hiroki Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Hiromasa Tanaka, Japanese decathlete
  • Hiromichi Tanaka, Japanese video game developer, producer, director and designer
  • Hiroshi Tanaka, Japanese high jumper
  • Hiroshi Tanaka, Japanese field hockey player
  • Hiroshi Tanaka, Japanese figure skater
  • Hiroto Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Hiroyasu Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
  • Hisakazu Tanaka, Japanese general
  • Hisao Tanaka, also known as Martin Tanaka, American professional wrestler
  • Tanaka Hisashige, Japanese rangaku scholar, engineer and inventor
  • Hisayoshi Tanaka, Japanese swimmer
  • Ichimatsu Tanaka, Japanese academic, art historian and curator
  • Ikko Tanaka, Japanese graphic designer
  • Issei Tanaka, Japanese writer
  • Tanaka Isson, born Tanaka Jun, Japanese Nihonga painter
  • Izuki Tanaka, Japanese field hockey player
  • Janice Tanaka, American artist
  • Janis Tanaka, American musician
  • Jeffrey S. Tanaka, American psychologist and statistician
  • Jin Tanaka, Japanese screenwriter
  • Jiro Tanaka, Japanese mechanical engineer
  • Jujiro Tanaka, Japanese rower
  • Jun Tanaka, multiple people
  • Junko Tanaka, Japanese synchronized swimmer
  • Junya Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan
  • Kan Tanaka, Japanese voice actor
  • Kane Tanaka, oldest verified Japanese person ever
  • Karen Tanaka, Japanese composer
  • Kazuhiro Tanaka, Japanese drifting driver
  • Kazuhiro Tanaka, Japanese modern pentathlete
  • Kazuhito Tanaka, Japanese gymnast
  • Kazuki Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
  • Kazuki Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Kazunari Tanaka, Japanese voice actor
  • Kazunori Tanaka, Japanese politician
  • Kazuo Tanaka, Japanese engineer
  • Kei Tanaka, Japanese actor
  • Keiji Tanaka, Japanese figure skater
  • Keishu Tanaka, Japanese politician
  • Keita Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Ken Tanaka, Japanese actor
  • Kengo Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Kenichi Tanaka, Japanese mixed martial artist
  • Kenjiro Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
  • Kenneth K. Tanaka, Japanese-born American Buddhist writer
  • Kensuke Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
  • Kenta Tanaka, Japanese field hockey player
  • Kinuyo Tanaka, Japanese actress and director
  • Kishio Tanaka, Japanese swimmer
  • Kohei Tanaka, multiple people
  • Kohsuke Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
  • Koichi Tanaka, Japanese chemist
  • Koichi Tanaka , Japanese mixed martial artist
  • Koji Tanaka, Japanese footballer and manager
  • Kōjō Tanaka, Japanese photographer
  • Koki Tanaka, Japanese singer-songwriter, actor and idol
  • Kōki Tanaka, Japanese videographer
  • Komimasa Tanaka, Japanese writer and translator
  • Kosei Tanaka, Japanese boxer
  • Kōtarō Tanaka, multiple people
  • Kotono Tanaka, Japanese rhythmic gymnast
  • Kunie Tanaka, Japanese actor
  • Kunihiko Tanaka, Japanese manga artist and character designer
  • Luana Tanaka, Brazilian actress
  • Machi Tanaka, Japanese long-distance runner
  • Makiko Tanaka Japanese politician
  • Makoto Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Mamiko Tanaka, Japanese basketball player
  • Manami Tanaka, Japanese voice actress
  • Marcio Tanaka, Japanese-Brazilian baseball player
  • Marcus Tulio Tanaka Brazilian-born Japanese footballer
  • Mari Tanaka, Japanese tennis player
  • Masaaki Tanaka, Japanese writer
  • Masahiko Tanaka, multiple people
  • Masahiro Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
  • Masako Tanaka, known as Mineko Iwasaki, Japanese geisha
  • Masami Tanaka, Japanese swimmer
  • Masashi Tanaka, Japanese manga artist
  • Masato Tanaka, Japanese professional wrestler
  • Masayuki Tanaka, Japanese singer
  • Mayumi Tanaka, Japanese voice actress
  • Meca Tanaka, Japanese manga artist
  • Michiko Tanaka, Japanese singer and actress
  • Michinori Tanaka, Japanese mixed martial artist
  • Miho Tanaka, Japanese badminton player
  • Miho Tanaka, Japanese model, television personality and actress
  • Miki Tanaka, Japanese judoka
  • Mikiyasu Tanaka, Japanese volleyball player and coach
  • Miku Tanaka, Japanese idol
  • Min Tanaka, Japanese dancer and actor
  • Mina Tanaka, Japanese women's footballer
  • Mina Tanaka, Japanese luger
  • Minami Tanaka, Japanese voice actress
  • Minami Tanaka, Japanese announcer
  • Mineko Tanaka, Japanese handball player
  • Minoru Tanaka, multiple people
  • Misako Tanaka, Japanese actress
  • Misato Tanaka, Japanese actress
  • Mitsu Tanaka, Japanese feminist and writer
  • Mitsuteru Tanaka, Japanese cyclist
  • Miyako Tanaka, Japanese synchronized swimmer
  • Nanae Tanaka, Japanese fencer
  • Naoki Tanaka, multiple people
  • Noboru Tanaka, Japanese film director
  • Noboru Tanaka, Japanese field hockey player
  • Nobuo Tanaka, Japanese former executive director of the International Energy Agency
  • Nobutaka Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Nobuyuki Tanaka, Japanese economic botanist
  • Norio Tanaka, Japanese aquatic botanist
  • Nozomi Tanaka, Japanese long-distance runner
  • Pat Tanaka, American professional wrestler
  • Professor Tanaka, American professional wrestler
  • Paul Tanaka American law enforcement officer and politician
  • , Japanese painter
  • Raizō Tanaka, Japanese admiral
  • Reina Tanaka, Japanese singer
  • Rena Tanaka, Japanese actress and television personality
  • Rie Tanaka, Japanese singer and voice actress
  • Rie Tanaka, Japanese artistic gymnast
  • Riku Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Ritsuko Tanaka, Japanese actress, television personality and singer
  • Romeo Tanaka, Japanese writer and artist
  • Ronald Phillip Tanaka, Japanese-American poet and editor
  • Ryo Tanaka, Japanese ice hockey player
  • Ryohei Tanaka, Japanese artist
  • Ryōichi Tanaka, Japanese voice actor
  • Ryōko Tanaka, Japanese voice actress
  • Ryosei Tanaka, Japanese politician
  • Ryūkichi Tanaka, Japanese general
  • Sakai Tanaka, Japanese journalist
  • Sakuji Tanaka, Japanese businessman
  • Sara Tanaka, American actress
  • Satoko Tanaka, Japanese swimmer
  • Satoshi Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Seigi Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
  • Seiichi Tanaka, Japanese taiko player
  • Sendai Tanaka, Japanese boxing trainer
  • Setsuji Tanaka, Japanese rower
  • Shelley Tanaka, Canadian editor, author, translator, and writing teacher
  • Shigeho Tanaka, Japanese ichthyologist and professor of zoology
  • Shigeki Tanaka, Japanese long-distance runner
  • Shiho Tanaka, Japanese badminton player
  • Shiho Tanaka, Japanese judoka
  • Shinako Tanaka, Japanese beach volleyball player
  • Tanaka Shinbei, Japanese samurai and assassin
  • Shingai Tanaka, Japanese calligrapher
  • Shinichi Tanaka, Japanese ski jumper
  • Shin'ichi Tanaka, Japanese photographer
  • Shinji Tanaka, Japanese footballer and manager
  • Shizuichi Tanaka, Japanese general
  • Sho Tanaka, Japanese professional wrestler
  • Sho Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Shohé Tanaka, Japanese physicist, music theorist, and inventor
  • Tanaka Shōsuke, 17th-century Japanese merchant and explorer
  • Shōzō Tanaka, Japanese politician and conservationist
  • Shun Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Shunichi Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Shunta Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
  • Shunta Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Shusei Tanaka, Japanese politician
  • Shuta Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
  • Shuto Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Soichi Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Sōichirō Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Sōichirō Tanaka, Japanese voice actor
  • Soshi Tanaka, Japanese figure skater
  • Sumie Tanaka, Japanese screenwriter and playwright
  • Takashi Tanaka, a.k.a. Banjō Ginga, Japanese voice actor
  • Takahiro Tanaka, multiple people
  • Takako Tanaka, Japanese voice actress
  • Tamami Tanaka, Japanese biathlete
  • Tatsuya Tanaka, multiple people
  • Teisuke Tanaka, Japanese motorcycle racer
  • Terukazu Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Teruki Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Terumi Tanaka, Japanese anti-nuclear and anti-war activist
  • Teruyo Tanaka, Japanese Paralympic athlete
  • Tetsushi Tanaka, Japanese actor
  • Tia Tanaka, Indonesian-born American pornographic actress
  • Tetsuya Tanaka, multiple people
  • Togo Tanaka, American journalist and newspaper editor
  • Tokutarō Tanaka, Japanese photographer
  • Tokuzō Tanaka, Japanese film director
  • Tommy Tanaka, Guam politician
  • Tomohiro Tanaka, multiple people
  • Tomoko Tanaka, Japanese ice dancer
  • Tomomi Tanaka, Japanese long-distance runner
  • Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese film producer
  • Torahiko Tanaka, Japanese shogi player
  • Tanaka Tosa, Japanese samurai
  • Toshiaki Tanaka, Japanese table tennis player
  • Toshibumi Tanaka, Japanese politician
  • Toshimitsu Tanaka, Japanese composer
  • Toshiya Tanaka, multiple people
  • Toshiyuki Tanaka, Japanese equestrian
  • Tsuneo Tanaka, Japanese diplomat
  • Tsunetoshi Tanaka, Japanese politician
  • Tsutomu Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
  • Wataru Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Yasuhiro Tanaka, multiple people
  • Yasukazu Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Yasuo Tanaka, multiple people
  • Yasushi Tanaka, Japanese artist
  • Yasushin Tanaka, Japanese ice hockey player
  • Yōji Tanaka, Japanese actor
  • Yoko Tanaka, Japanese women's footballer
  • Yoshikazu Tanaka, Japanese businessman
  • Yoshiki Tanaka, Japanese novelist
  • Yoshiko Tanaka, Japanese actress
  • Yoshiko Tanaka, Japanese table tennis player
  • Tanaka Yoshio, Japanese civil servant and naturalist
  • Yoshio Tanaka, Japanese swimmer
  • Yudai Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Yudai Tanaka, Japanese footballer
  • Yūichi Tanaka, Japanese shogi player
  • Yuji Tanaka, Japanese comedian
  • Yuka Tanaka, Japanese tennis player
  • Yuki Tanaka, multiple people
  • Yukinori Tanaka, Japanese swimmer
  • Yukio Tanaka, multiple people
  • Yūko Tanaka, Japanese actress
  • Yurie Tanaka, Japanese biathlete
  • Yūsuke Tanaka, multiple people