Tanaka

Template:Infobox surname is the fourth most common Japanese surname. It is typically written with the kanji for . Less common variants include , , , , and .

People with the surname

• , Japanese musician formerly known as Boku no Lyric no Bōyomi
• , Japanese voice actress
• , Japanese hurdler
• , Japanese singer and model, member of girl group MEOVV
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese women's footballer
• , Japanese footballer
• Atsuko Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• Ayumi Tanaka (born 1986), Japanese pianist and composer
• , Japanese aikidoka
• , Japanese model and actress
• , Japanese Buddhist scholar and preacher
• , Japanese speed skater
• , Japanese playwright and dramatist
• , Japanese merchant
• , Japanese photographer
• , Japanese botanist and mycologist
• , Japanese baseball player
• , Japanese basketball player
• Dean Tanaka, the birth name of Dean Cain (born 1966), American actor
• , Japanese Nordic combined skier
• Template:Ill (1901–1980), Japanese police officer and politician
• , Japanese anime producer
• , Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor
• Elly Tanaka (born 1965), American biochemist
• , Japanese actress and voice actress
• Eugenia Tanaka (born 1987), Indonesian-born Australian badminton player
• Evelyn Tanaka, Canadian politician
• , Japanese statesman and educator
• , Japanese rugby union player
• , Japanese martial artist
• Gary A. Tanaka (born 1943), Japanese-American businessman and philanthropist
• , Japanese rugby union player
• , Japanese general, politician, and Prime Minister of Japan
• Haruko Tanaka, American artist and filmmaker
• , Japanese actor
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese composer and arranger
• , Japanese golfer
• , Japanese novelist
• Hideo Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• , Japanese voice actor
• , Japanese gymnast
• Hime Tanaka (田中ヒメ), Japanese singer and HimeHina Virtual YouTuber group
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese composer and musician
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese decathlete
• , Japanese video game developer, producer, director and designer
• , Japanese high jumper
• , Japanese field hockey player
• , Japanese figure skater
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese baseball player
• , Japanese general
• Hisao Tanaka, also known as Martin Tanaka (died 1991), American professional wrestler
• , Japanese rangaku scholar, engineer and inventor
• , Japanese swimmer
• , Japanese academic, art historian and curator
• , Japanese graphic designer
• , Japanese writer
• , born Tanaka Jun (1908–1977), Japanese Nihonga painter
• , Japanese field hockey player
• Janice Tanaka, American artist
• Janis Tanaka (born 1963), American musician
• Jeffrey S. Tanaka (1958–1992), American psychologist and statistician
• , Japanese screenwriter
• , Japanese mechanical engineer
• , Japanese rower
• Jun Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• , Japanese synchronized swimmer
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan
• , Japanese voice actor
• , oldest verified Japanese person ever
• , Japanese composer
• , Japanese drifting driver
• , Japanese modern pentathlete
• , Japanese gymnast
• , Japanese baseball player
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese voice actor
• , Japanese politician
• Kazuo Tanaka, Japanese engineer
• , Japanese actor
• , Japanese figure skater
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese actor
• , Japanese footballer
• Kenichi Tanaka, Japanese mixed martial artist
• , Japanese baseball player
• Kenneth K. Tanaka (born 1947), Japanese-born American Buddhist writer
• , Japanese baseball player
• , Japanese field hockey player
• , Japanese actress and director
• , Japanese swimmer
• Kohei Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• , Japanese baseball player
• , Japanese chemist
• Koichi Tanaka (fighter) (born 1971), Japanese mixed martial artist
• , Japanese footballer and manager
• , Japanese photographer
• , Japanese singer-songwriter, actor and idol
• , Japanese videographer
• , Japanese writer and translator
• , Japanese boxer
• Kōtarō Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• , Japanese rhythmic gymnast
• , Japanese actor
• , Japanese manga artist and character designer
• Luana Tanaka (born 1989), Brazilian actress
• , Japanese long-distance runner
• Japanese politician
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese basketball player
• , Japanese voice actress
• Marcio Tanaka (born 1980), Japanese-Brazilian baseball player
• Marcus Tulio Tanaka (born 1981) Brazilian-born Japanese footballer
• , Japanese tennis player
• , Japanese writer
• Masahiko Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• , Japanese baseball player
• Masako Tanaka, known as Mineko Iwasaki (born 1949), Japanese geisha
• , Japanese swimmer
• , Japanese manga artist
• , Japanese professional wrestler
• , Japanese singer
• , Japanese voice actress
• , Japanese manga artist
• , Japanese singer and actress
• , Japanese mixed martial artist
• , Japanese badminton player
• , Japanese model, television personality and actress
• , Japanese judoka
• , Japanese volleyball player and coach
• , Japanese idol
• , Japanese dancer and actor
• , Japanese women's footballer
• , Japanese luger
• , Japanese voice actress
• , Japanese announcer
• , Japanese handball player
• Minoru Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• , Japanese actress
• , Japanese actress
• , Japanese feminist and writer
• , Japanese cyclist
• , Japanese synchronized swimmer
• , Japanese fencer
• Naoki Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• , Japanese film director
• , Japanese field hockey player
• , Japanese former executive director of the International Energy Agency
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese economic botanist
• , Japanese aquatic botanist
• , Japanese long-distance runner
• Pat Tanaka (born 1961), American professional wrestler
• Professor Tanaka (1930–2000), American professional wrestler
• Paul Tanaka American law enforcement officer and politician
• Template:Jp, Japanese painter
• , Japanese admiral
• , Japanese singer
• , Japanese actress and television personality
• , Japanese singer and voice actress
• , Japanese artistic gymnast
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese actress, television personality and singer
• , Japanese writer and artist
• Ronald Phillip Tanaka (1944–2007), Japanese-American poet and editor
• , Japanese ice hockey player
• Ryohei Tanaka (1933–2019), Japanese artist
• , Japanese voice actor
• , Japanese voice actress
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese general
• , Japanese journalist
• Sakuji Tanaka, Japanese businessman
• Sara Tanaka (born 1978), American actress
• , Japanese swimmer
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese baseball player
• , Japanese taiko player
• , Japanese boxing trainer
• , Japanese rower
• Shelley Tanaka, Canadian editor, author, translator, and writing teacher
• , Japanese ichthyologist and professor of zoology
• , Japanese long-distance runner
• , Japanese badminton player
• , Japanese judoka
• , Japanese beach volleyball player
• , Japanese samurai and assassin
• Shingai Tanaka (1942–2007), Japanese calligrapher
• , Japanese ski jumper
• , Japanese photographer
• , Japanese footballer and manager
• , Japanese general
• , Japanese professional wrestler
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese physicist, music theorist, and inventor
• , 17th-century Japanese merchant and explorer
• , Japanese politician and conservationist
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese baseball player
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese baseball player
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese voice actor
• , Japanese figure skater
• , Japanese screenwriter and playwright
• Takashi Tanaka, a.k.a. Banjō Ginga (born 1948), Japanese voice actor
• Takahiro Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• , Japanese voice actress
• , Japanese biathlete
• Tatsuya Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• , Japanese motorcycle racer
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese anti-nuclear and anti-war activist
• , Japanese Paralympic athlete
• , Japanese actor
• Tetsuya Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• Togo Tanaka (1916–2009), American journalist and newspaper editor
• , Japanese photographer
• , Japanese film director
• Tommy Tanaka, Guam politician
• Tomohiro Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• , Japanese ice dancer
• , Japanese long-distance runner
• , Japanese film producer
• , Japanese shogi player
• , Japanese samurai
• , Japanese table tennis player
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese composer
• Toshiya Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• , Japanese equestrian
• , Japanese diplomat
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese baseball player
• , Japanese footballer
• Yasuhiro Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• , Japanese footballer
• Yasuo Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• , Japanese artist
• , Japanese ice hockey player
• , Japanese actor
• , Japanese women's footballer
• , Japanese businessman
• , Japanese novelist
• , Japanese actress
• , Japanese table tennis player
• , Japanese civil servant and naturalist
• , Japanese swimmer
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese shogi player
• , Japanese comedian
• Yuka Tanaka (born 1974), Japanese tennis player
• Yuki Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• , Japanese swimmer
• Yukio Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people
• , Japanese actress
• , Japanese biathlete
• Yūsuke Tanaka (disambiguation), multiple people

Fictional characters

• Lady Tanaka, is the main antagonist in the movie "The Punisher"(1989)
• Tanaka, a character in the manga series Black Butler
• Tanaka, the household servant in Full Moon o Sagashite
• Tanaka, the Usami household butler in Junjo Romantica
• Tanaka, from Kimi ni Todoke
• Tanaka, a character in the light novel series Mayoi Neko Overrun
• Tanaka, from Tanaka-kun is Always Listless
• Mr. Tanaka, from F-Zero GX
• Mr. Tanaka, from Sonic X
• Mr. Tanaka, from the anime Gantz
• President Tanaka, from Persona 3
• Aiko Tanaka from Oyasumi Punpun
• Asuka Tanaka, from Sound! Euphonium
• David Tanaka, a character in the soap opera Neighbours
• Drew Tanaka from The Heroes of Olympus and The Kane Chronicles
• Gundham Tanaka from Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
• Holly Tanaka, a character in the video Game Halo 5: Guardians
• Ichiro Tanaka, character from Medal of Honor: Rising Sun
• Isuro Tanaka, from the film Major League II
• Tanaka Kazuya, from School Rumble
• Ken Tanaka, a character in the television series Glee
• Kida Tanaka, from Fear & Hunger 2: Termina
• Koyuki Tanaka, from SBK: Snowboard Kids
• Leo Tanaka, a character in the soap opera Neighbours
• Opal Tanaka, a Marvel Comics character
• Ryūnosuke Tanaka from Haikyū!!
• Shinichiro Tanaka, from Battle Royale (film, Special Edition)
• Shinji Tanaka, from Yakuza (video game)
• Souichirou Tanaka, character from Genshiken
• Taro Tanaka, from Taro the Space Alien (Uchūjin Tanaka Tarō)
• Tiger Tanaka, from the James Bond novel and film You Only Live Twice
• Tom Tanaka, from Durarara!
• Lt. Yoshi Tanaka from Magnum, P.I.
• Yukio "Koyuki" Tanaka, main character of the manga series BECK
• Tricia Tanaka, featured in the episode Tricia Tanaka is Dead from the TV show Lost (2004 TV series)

See also

• , Japanese gymnast
• Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii (born 1969), Japanese linguist
• , Japanese mathematician