Kazuo Explained
| Kazuo |
| Gender: | Male |
| Meaning: | Different meanings depending on the kanji used. |
| Region: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Origin: | Japanese |
| Footnotes: | [1] |
Kazuo (カズオ, かずお) is a masculine Japanese given name.
Possible spellings
It has several written forms, and the meaning depends on the characters used (usually kanji, but sometimes hiragana). Common forms include:
- 一雄: first son, first in leadership/excellence
- 一夫: first son
- 一男: first man/male
- 和夫: harmonious/peaceful man
- 和男: harmonious/peaceful man
- かずお (hiragana)
- カズオ (katakana)
People with the name
- , Japanese sport wrestler
- , Japanese politician
- , Japanese government minister during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and into World War II
- , Japanese shogi player
- , Japanese aikido teacher
- , Japanese novelist and poet
- Kazuo Endo, Kobe earthquake survivor
- , Japanese Marxist
- , Japanese Enka singer
- , Japanese documentary film director
- , anime producer, audio director, and sound effects director
- , Japanese film and stage actor
- , late Japanese inventor of Caller ID and the telephone answering machine, including the ansafone
- , patriarchal head of the prominent Japanese Hatoyama political family
- , Japanese actor and voice actor
- , President/CEO of Sony Computer
- , accounting scholar, president of Kwansei Gakuin University
- , Japanese politician
- , Japanese novelist and literary critic active in the Shōwa period of Japan
- , Japanese voice actor (stage name)
- , Japanese aikidoka
- , Japanese film director
- , Japanese businessman
- , Japanese cyclist
- Kazuo Ishiguro (石黒一雄, born 1954), British author
- Kazuo Iwama, multiple people
- , contemporary Japanese sculptor
- , Japanese manga artist
- , Japanese golfer
- , Japanese table tennis player
- , Japanese high jumper
- , Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the Japanese Cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi
- , Japanese actor
- , Japanese diver
- , manga artist
- , Japanese film director
- , Japanese astronomer
- , Japanese actor, voice actor and theatre director
- , Japanese film director
- , Japanese shogi player
- , Japanese ice hockey player
- , Japanese baseball player
- , Japanese professional mixed martial arts fighter and former judoka
- , Japanese cinematographer
- , Chief of Staff of Japanese Imperial Guard during the close of World War II
- , Japanese film director
- , Japanese fraudster
- Kazuo Nakamura (1926–2002), Japanese-Canadian painter and sculptor
- , Japanese basketball coach
- , briefly the leader of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate in the chaotic years of the Yama-Ichi War
- , Japanese magazine editor and photography critic
- , Japanese swimmer
- , Japanese art director
- , Japanese dancer associated with Butoh
- , Japanese voice actor
- , Japanese billionaire businessman, and art collector
- , Japanese philologist and novelist
- , Japanese-American professional wrestler
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer and manager
- , Japanese racewalker
- , first prisoner of war held by the US in World War II
- , known as Mr. Sakurada, retired Japanese professional wrestler
- Kazuo Sato (disambiguation), multiple people
- , Japanese politician
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese sport wrestler
- , Japanese architect
- , Japanese abstract painter
- , Japanese shogi player
- , Japanese mixed martial artist
- , Godfather of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate
- , Japanese TV presenter and announcer
- , chairman of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- , Japanese manga artist
- , Japanese businessman
- , Japanese conductor
- , Japanese sociologist
- Kazuo Chaed, Film Director
Fictional characters
Video games
References
- http://www.babynames.co.uk/meaning_origin_name_Kazuo.htm Kazuo - Meaning and origin of the name Kazuo
