Nakai (surname) explained
Nakai (written:, or) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- , Japanese cinematographer
- , Japanese professional baseball infielder
- , Japanese shogi player
- , Japanese politician
- , Japanese politician[1]
- , Japanese voice actor
- , Japanese actress
- , Japanese actor
- , Japanese singer, actor and host
- , Japanese aesthetician, film theorist, librarian, and social activist
- , general in the Imperial Japanese Army
- , Japanese politician
- , Japanese actress, director
- , Japanese writer
- R. Carlos Nakai (born 1946), Native American flautist
- , former Japanese football player
- , Japanese judoka
- , Japanese footballer, known as Pipi
- , Japanese botanist
- , Japanese former handball player
- , Japanese baseball player
- , Japanese mathematician, originator of the Nakai conjecture, Japanese football player
- , Japanese artist
- , retired Japanese shooto practitioner and mixed martial artist
- , Japanese badminton player
Nakai is a surname among the Navajo people of the American Southwest. Notable people with the surname Nakai include
- R. Carlos Nakai (born 1946) American musician, nominated for 11 Grammy Awards.
Notes and References
- https://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/120001981957/en Even a sardine's head becomes holy: the role of household encyclopedias in sustaining civilisation in pre-industrial Japan
