Kazuo

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)

Examples

• 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 (平井一夫, born 1964), 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 Shōwa period of Japan
• Kazuo Ichinohe (born 1941), Japanese voice actor (stage name Shin Aomori)
• Kazuo Inamori (born 1932), Japanese businessman
• Kazuo Ishiguro (石黒一雄, born 1954), British author
• Kazuo Kawai (川井 一男), Japanese table tennis player
• Kazuo Kitagawa (北側一雄, born 1953), Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the Japanese Cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi
• Kazuo Kobayashi (小林 一男, 1908–?), Japanese diver
• Kazuo Koike (小池一夫, born 1936), manga artist
• Kazuo Komizu (born 1946), Japanese film director
• Kazuo Kubokawa (窪川一雄, 1903–1943), astronomer
• Kazuo Matsui (松井稼頭央, born 1975), baseball player
• Kazuo Misaki (born 1976), Japanese professional mixed martial arts fighter and former judoka
• Kazuo Miyagawa (宮川一夫, 1908–1999), cinematographer
• Kazuo Mizutani (水谷和夫), Chief of Staff of Japanese Imperial Guard during the close of World War II
• Kazuo Nakamura (1926–2002), Japanese-Canadian painter and sculptor
• Kazuo Nakamura (basketball) (中村 和雄, born 1940), Japanese basketball coach
• Kazuo Nakanishi (1922–2003), briefly the leader of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate in the chaotic years of the Yama-Ichi War
• Kazuo Nishii (西井 一夫, 1946–2001), Japanese magazine editor and photography critic
• Kazuo Ohno (1906–2010), Japanese dancer associated with Butoh
• Kazuo Oka (born 1948), Japanese voice actor
• Kazuo Ozaki (尾崎 加寿夫, born 1960), Japanese footballer
• Kazuo Saito (斉藤 和夫, born 1951), Japanese footballer and manager
• Kazuo Saito (athlete) (斎藤 和夫, born 1942), Japanese racewalker
• Kazuo Sakamaki (酒巻和男, 1918–1999), first prisoner of war held by the USA in World War II
• Kazuo Sakurada (born 1948), known as Mr. Sakurada) retired Japanese professional wrestler
• Kazuo Sugimoto (杉本 和陽, born 1991), Japanese shogi player
• Kazuo Takahashi (高橋 和生, born 1969), Japanese mixed martial artist
• Kazuo Taoka (田岡一雄, 1913–1981), Godfather of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate
• Kazuo Umezu (楳図かずお, born 1936), horror manga author
• Kazuo Yamada (1912–1991), Japanese conductor

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