Kazuo - Real People

Real People

• Kazuo Aoki, Japanese government minister during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and into World War II
• Kazuo Chiba (born 1940), aikido
• Kazuo Harada (died 1998), anime producer, audio director, and sound effects director
• Kazuo Hirai (born 1964), 平井一夫, President/CEO of Sony Computer
• Kazuo Endo, Kobe Earthquake survivor
• Kazuo Hashimoto, late Japanese inventor of Caller ID and the telephone answering machine, including the ansafone.
• Kazuo Hiramatsu, accounting scholar, president of Kwansei Gakuin University
• Kazuo Hirotsu (1891–1968), Japanese novelist and literary critic active in the Showa period Japan
• Kazuo Ichinohe (born 1941), Japanese voice actor (stage name Shin Aomori)
• Kazuo Inamori (born 1932), Japanese businessman
• Kazuo Ishiguro (born 1954), 石黒一雄, British author
• Kazuo Kitagawa (born 1953), 北側一雄, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the Japanese Cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi
• Kazuo Koike (born 1936), 小池一夫, manga artist
• Kazuo Komizu (born 1946), Japanese film director
• Kazuo Kubokawa (1903–1943), 窪川一雄, astronomer
• Kazuo Matsui (born 1975), 松井稼頭央, baseball player
• Kazuo Misaki (born 1976), Japanese professional mixed martial arts fighter and former judoka
• Kazuo Miyagawa (1908–1999), 宮川一夫, cinematographer
• Kazuo Mizutani 水谷和夫, Chief of Staff of Japanese Imperial Guard during the close of World War II
• Kazuo Nakanishi (1922–2003), briefly the leader of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate in the chaotic years of the Yama-Ichi War
• Kazuo Ohno (1906–2010), Japanese dancer associated with Butoh
• Kazuo Oka (born 1948), Japanese voice actor
• Kazuo Sakamaki (1918–1999), 酒巻和男, first prisoner of war held by USA in World War II
• Kazuo Sakurada (born 1948), known as Mr. Sakurada) retired Japanese professional wrestler.
• Kazuo Taoka (1913–1981), 田岡一雄, Godfather of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate
• Kazuo Umezu (born 1936), 楳図かずお, horror manga author
• Kazuo Watanabe (born 1955), 渡辺和郎, astronomer
• Kazuo Yamada (1912–1991), Japanese conductor