Takao (name)
Takao is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Takao Abe, Japanese politician
- Takao Aoki, Japanese manga artist
- Takao Doi, Japanese astronaut
- Takao Fujii, Japanese politician
- Takao Fujinami, Japanese politician
- Takao Hikigi, Japanese ice hockey player
- Takao Horiuchi, Japanese singer
- Takao Isokawa, Japanese sport wrestler
- Takao Ito, Japanese ski jumper
- Takao Kajimoto, Japanese baseball player
- Takao Kawaguchi, Japanese judoka
- Takao Kisugi, Japanese singer and composer
- Takao Kitabata, Japanese civil servant
- Takao Kobayashi, Japanese astronomer
- Takao Kogo, Japanese rower
- Takao Koyama, Japanese screenwriter and writer
- Takao Kuwamoto, Japanese baseball player
- Takao Makino, Japanese politician
- Takao Nakano, Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor
- Takao Nishiyama, Japanese footballer
- Takao Nogami, Japanese golfer
- Takao Obana, Japanese baseball player and manager
- Takao Ochi, Japanese politician
- Takao Oishi, Japanese footballer
- Takao Okawara, Japanese film director
- Takao Omori, Japanese professional wrestler
- Takao Osawa, Japanese actor
- Takao Saito, Japanese manga artist
- Saitō Takao, Japanese politician
- Takao Saito, Japanese cinematographer
- Takao Sakai, Japanese bobsledder
- Takao Sakamoto, Japanese high jumper
- Takao Sakurai, Japanese boxer
- Takao Suzuki, Japanese tennis player
- Takao Suzuki, Japanese sociolinguist
- Takao Tanabe, Canadian painter
- Takao Wada, Japanese racing driver
- Takao Watanabe, Japanese politician
- Takao Yamauchi, Japanese footballer
Takao is also a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Erika Takao, Japanese tennis player
- Shinji Takao, Japanese Go player
