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 , Japanese Marxist , Japanese Enka singer , Canadian artist , 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 football player and manager , Japanese businessman , Japanese cyclist Kazuo Ishiguro (石黒一雄, born 1954), British author Kazuo Iwama, multiple people , Japanese children's book author , 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 Kazuo Ueda (植田 和男; born 1951), 32nd Governor of the Bank of Japan Kazuo Ueda (上田和夫; born 1942 or 1943), Yiddishist , Japanese manga artist , Japanese businessman , Japanese conductor , Japanese sociologist , Japanese jockey
Fictional characters Kazuo Tengan, the antagonist of Danganronpa Kazuo Nakano, character in Yudetamago's manga series Kinnikuman Kazuo Saki, brother of the Shredder from the 1987–1996 animated TV series, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Kazuo Uzuki, fictional baseball player that Topps created as an April Fools' Day hoax Kazuo Kiriyama, the primary antagonist of Battle Royale Kazuo Makunoichi, fictional character in Hajime no Ippo
Video games Kazuo or Go! Sudoku, is the name for the Japanese release of the PlayStation Portable puzzle game Kazuo Akuji is the leader of the Ronin in the Saints Row 2 Kazuo Hoshiro is the leader of the Investigation Team of Sweet Home (video game)
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