Nakai (surname)
Nakai is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Asakazu Nakai, Japanese cinematographer
- Daisuke Nakai, Japanese professional baseball infielder
- Hiroe Nakai, Japanese shogi player
- Hiroshi Nakai, Japanese politician
- Kazuya Nakai, Japanese voice actor
- Kie Nakai, Japanese actress
- Kiichi Nakai, Japanese actor
- Masahiro Nakai, Japanese singer, actor and host
- Masakazu Nakai, Japanese aesthetician, film theorist, librarian, and social activist
- Masutaro Nakai, general in the Imperial Japanese Army
- Nakai Chikuzan, Japanese politician
- Norio Nakai, Japanese writer
- R. Carlos Nakai, Native American flautist
- Shogo Nakai, former Japanese football player
- Takahiro Nakai, Japanese judoka
- Takenoshin Nakai, Japanese botanist
- Takezo Nakai, Japanese former handball player
- Yasuyuki Nakai, Japanese baseball player
- Yoshikazu Nakai, Japanese mathematician, originator of the Nakai conjecture
- Yoshiki Nakai, Japanese football player
- Yudetamago, Japanese artist
- Yuki Nakai, retired Japanese shooto practitioner and mixed martial artist
- Yukino Nakai, Japanese badminton player
