Tanaka
Tanaka is the fourth most common Japanese surname, written with the kanji for ricefield & middle. Less common variants include many & middle, many & relationship, another & middle, shelf & low, shelf & summer and many & name & congratulation.
People with the surname
- Aimi Tanaka, Japanese voice actress
- Akira Tanaka, Japanese hurdler
- Ao Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Asuna Tanaka, Japanese women's footballer
- Atomu Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Atsuko Tanaka, multiple people
- Ayumi Tanaka, Japanese pianist and composer
- Bansen Tanaka, Japanese aikidoka
- Chie Tanaka, Japanese model and actress
- Tanaka Chigaku, Japanese Buddhist scholar and preacher
- Chikage Tanaka, Japanese speed skater
- Tanaka Chikao, Japanese playwright and dramatist
- Tanaka Chōbei, Japanese merchant
- Chōtoku Tanaka, Japanese photographer
- Chōzaburō Tanaka, Japanese botanist and mycologist
- Daijiro Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
- Daiki Tanaka, Japanese basketball player
- Daisuke Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Dean Tanaka, the birth name of Dean Cain, American actor
- Eiichi Tanaka, Japanese Nordic combined skier
- Eiko Tanaka, Japanese anime producer
- Eizō Tanaka, Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor
- Elly Tanaka, biochemist
- Eri Tanaka, Japanese actress and voice actress
- Eugenia Tanaka, Indonesian-born Australian badminton player
- Tanaka Fujimaro, Japanese statesman and educator
- Fumiaki Tanaka, Japanese rugby union player
- Fumon Tanaka, Japanese martial artist
- Gary A. Tanaka, Japanese-American businessman and philanthropist
- Ginnosuke Tanaka, Japanese rugby union player
- Tanaka Giichi, Japanese general, politician, and Prime Minister of Japan
- Haruko Tanaka, American artist and filmmaker
- Haruo Tanaka, Japanese actor
- Hayuma Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Hidekazu Tanaka, Japanese composer and arranger
- Hidemichi Tanaka, Japanese golfer
- Hidemitsu Tanaka, Japanese novelist
- Hideo Tanaka, multiple people
- Hideya Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Hideyuki Tanaka, Japanese voice actor
- Hikaru Tanaka, Japanese gymnast
- Hiroaki Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Hirokazu Tanaka, Japanese composer and musician
- Hiroki Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Hiromasa Tanaka, Japanese decathlete
- Hiromichi Tanaka, Japanese video game developer, producer, director and designer
- Hiroshi Tanaka, Japanese high jumper
- Hiroshi Tanaka, Japanese field hockey player
- Hiroshi Tanaka, Japanese figure skater
- Hiroto Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Hiroyasu Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
- Hisakazu Tanaka, Japanese general
- Hisao Tanaka, also known as Martin Tanaka, American professional wrestler
- Tanaka Hisashige, Japanese rangaku scholar, engineer and inventor
- Hisayoshi Tanaka, Japanese swimmer
- Ichimatsu Tanaka, Japanese academic, art historian and curator
- Ikko Tanaka, Japanese graphic designer
- Issei Tanaka, Japanese writer
- Tanaka Isson, born Tanaka Jun, Japanese Nihonga painter
- Izuki Tanaka, Japanese field hockey player
- Janice Tanaka, American artist
- Janis Tanaka, American musician
- Jeffrey S. Tanaka, American psychologist and statistician
- Jiro Tanaka, Japanese mechanical engineer
- Jujiro Tanaka, Japanese rower
- Jun Tanaka, multiple people
- Junko Tanaka, Japanese synchronized swimmer
- Junya Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Junya Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan
- Kan Tanaka, Japanese voice actor
- Karen Tanaka, Japanese composer
- Kazuhiro Tanaka, Japanese drifting driver
- Kazuhiro Tanaka, Japanese modern pentathlete
- Kazuhito Tanaka, Japanese gymnast
- Kazuki Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
- Kazuki Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Kazunari Tanaka, Japanese voice actor
- Kazunori Tanaka, Japanese politician
- Kazuo Tanaka, Japanese engineer
- Kei Tanaka, Japanese actor
- Keiji Tanaka, Japanese figure skater
- Keishu Tanaka, Japanese politician
- Keita Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Ken Tanaka, Japanese actor
- Kengo Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Kenichi Tanaka, Japanese mixed martial artist
- Kenji Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Kenjiro Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
- Kenneth K. Tanaka, Japanese-born American Buddhist writer
- Kensuke Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
- Kenta Tanaka, Japanese field hockey player
- Kinuyo Tanaka, Japanese actress and director
- Kishio Tanaka, Japanese swimmer
- Kohei Tanaka, multiple people
- Kohsuke Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
- Koichi Tanaka, Japanese chemist
- Koichi Tanaka , Japanese mixed martial artist
- Koji Tanaka, Japanese footballer and manager
- Kōjō Tanaka, Japanese photographer
- Koki Tanaka, Japanese singer-songwriter, actor and idol
- Kōki Tanaka, Japanese videographer
- Komimasa Tanaka, Japanese writer and translator
- Kosei Tanaka, Japanese boxer
- Kōtarō Tanaka, multiple people
- Kotono Tanaka, Japanese rhythmic gymnast
- Kunie Tanaka, Japanese actor
- Kunihiko Tanaka, Japanese manga artist and character designer
- Luana Tanaka, Brazilian actress
- Machi Tanaka, Japanese long-distance runner
- Makiko Tanaka Japanese politician
- Makoto Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Manami Tanaka, Japanese voice actress
- Marcio Tanaka, Japanese-Brazilian baseball player
- Marcus Tulio Tanaka Brazilian-born Japanese footballer
- Mari Tanaka, Japanese tennis player
- Masaaki Tanaka, Japanese writer
- Masahiko Tanaka, multiple people
- Masahiro Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
- Masaki Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Masako Tanaka, known as Mineko Iwasaki, Japanese geisha
- Masami Tanaka, Japanese swimmer
- Masashi Tanaka, Japanese manga artist
- Masato Tanaka, Japanese professional wrestler
- Masayuki Tanaka, Japanese singer
- Mayumi Tanaka, Japanese voice actress
- Meca Tanaka, Japanese manga artist
- Michiko Tanaka, Japanese singer and actress
- Michinori Tanaka, Japanese mixed martial artist
- Miho Tanaka, Japanese badminton player
- Miho Tanaka, Japanese model, television personality and actress
- Miki Tanaka, Japanese judoka
- Mikiyasu Tanaka, Japanese volleyball player and coach
- Min Tanaka, Japanese dancer and actor
- Mina Tanaka, Japanese women's footballer
- Mina Tanaka, Japanese luger
- Minami Tanaka, Japanese voice actress
- Minami Tanaka, Japanese announcer
- Mineko Tanaka, Japanese handball player
- Minoru Tanaka, multiple people
- Misako Tanaka, Japanese actress
- Misato Tanaka, Japanese actress
- Mitsu Tanaka, Japanese feminist and writer
- Mitsuteru Tanaka, Japanese cyclist
- Miyako Tanaka, Japanese synchronized swimmer
- Nanae Tanaka, Japanese fencer
- Naofumi Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Naoki Tanaka, multiple people
- Noboru Tanaka, Japanese film director
- Noboru Tanaka, Japanese field hockey player
- Nobuo Tanaka, Japanese former Executive Director of the International Energy Agency
- Nobutaka Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Nobuyuki Tanaka, Japanese economic botanist
- Norio Tanaka, Japanese aquatic botanist
- Nozomi Tanaka, Japanese long-distance runner
- Pat Tanaka, American professional wrestler
- Professor Tanaka, American professional wrestler
- Paul Tanaka American law enforcement officer and politician
- Raizō Tanaka, Japanese admiral
- Reina Tanaka, Japanese singer
- Rena Tanaka, Japanese actress and television personality
- Rie Tanaka, Japanese singer and voice actress
- Rie Tanaka, Japanese artistic gymnast
- Riku Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Ritsuko Tanaka, Japanese actress, television personality and singer
- Romeo Tanaka, Japanese writer and artist
- Ronald Phillip Tanaka, Japanese-American poet and editor
- Ryo Tanaka, Japanese ice hockey player
- Ryohei Tanaka, Japanese artist
- Ryōichi Tanaka, Japanese voice actor
- Ryōko Tanaka, Japanese voice actress
- Ryosei Tanaka, Japanese politician
- Ryūkichi Tanaka, Japanese general
- Sakai Tanaka, Japanese journalist
- Sakuji Tanaka, Japanese businessman
- Sara Tanaka, American actress
- Satoko Tanaka, Japanese swimmer
- Satoshi Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Seigi Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
- Seiichi Tanaka, Japanese taiko player
- Sendai Tanaka, Japanese boxing trainer
- Setsuji Tanaka, Japanese rower
- Shelley Tanaka, Canadian editor, author, translator, and writing teacher
- Shigeho Tanaka, Japanese ichthyologist and professor of zoology
- Shigeki Tanaka, Japanese long-distance runner
- Shiho Tanaka, Japanese badminton player
- Shiho Tanaka, Japanese judoka
- Shinako Tanaka, Japanese beach volleyball player
- Tanaka Shinbei, Japanese samurai and assassin
- Shingai Tanaka, Japanese calligrapher
- Shinichi Tanaka, Japanese ski jumper
- Shin'ichi Tanaka, Japanese photographer
- Shinji Tanaka, Japanese footballer and manager
- Shizuichi Tanaka, Japanese general
- Sho Tanaka, Japanese professional wrestler
- Sho Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Shohé Tanaka, Japanese physicist, music theorist, and inventor
- Tanaka Shōsuke, 17th-century Japanese merchant and explorer
- Shōzō Tanaka, Japanese politician and conservationist
- Shun Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Shunichi Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Shunta Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
- Shunta Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Shusei Tanaka, Japanese politician
- Shuta Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
- Shuto Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Soichi Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Sōichirō Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Sōichirō Tanaka, Japanese voice actor
- Soshi Tanaka, Japanese figure skater
- Sumie Tanaka, Japanese screenwriter and playwright
- Takashi Tanaka, a.k.a. Banjō Ginga, Japanese voice actor
- Takahiro Tanaka, multiple people
- Takako Tanaka, Japanese voice actress
- Tamami Tanaka, Japanese biathlete
- Tatsuya Tanaka, multiple people
- Teisuke Tanaka, Japanese motorcycle racer
- Terukazu Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Teruki Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Terumi Tanaka, Japanese anti-nuclear and anti-war activist
- Teruyo Tanaka, Japanese Paralympic athlete
- Tetsushi Tanaka, Japanese actor
- Tetsuya Tanaka, multiple people
- Togo Tanaka, American journalist and newspaper editor
- Tokutarō Tanaka, Japanese photographer
- Tokuzō Tanaka, Japanese film director
- Tommy Tanaka, Guam politician
- Tomohiro Tanaka, multiple people
- Tomoko Tanaka, Japanese ice dancer
- Tomomi Tanaka, Japanese long-distance runner
- Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese film producer
- Torahiko Tanaka, Japanese shogi player
- Toru Tanaka or Professor Toru Tanaka, born Charles Kalani, Jr., American professional wrestler and actor
- Tanaka Tosa, Japanese samurai
- Toshiaki Tanaka, Japanese table tennis player
- Toshibumi Tanaka, Japanese politician
- Toshimitsu Tanaka, Japanese composer
- Toshiya Tanaka, multiple people
- Toshiyuki Tanaka, Japanese equestrian
- Tsuneo Tanaka, Japanese diplomat
- Tsunetoshi Tanaka, Japanese politician
- Tsutomu Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
- Wataru Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Yasuhiro Tanaka, multiple people
- Yasukazu Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Yasuo Tanaka, multiple people
- Yasushi Tanaka, Japanese artist
- Yasushin Tanaka, Japanese ice hockey player
- Yōji Tanaka, Japanese actor
- Yoko Tanaka, Japanese women's footballer
- Yoshikazu Tanaka, Japanese businessman
- Yoshiki Tanaka, Japanese novelist
- Yoshiko Tanaka, Japanese actress
- Yoshiko Tanaka, Japanese table tennis player
- Tanaka Yoshio, Japanese civil servant and naturalist
- Yoshio Tanaka, Japanese swimmer
- Yudai Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Yudai Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Yūichi Tanaka, Japanese shogi player
- Yuji Tanaka, Japanese comedian
- Yuka Tanaka, Japanese tennis player
- Yuki Tanaka, multiple people
- Yukinori Tanaka, Japanese swimmer
- Yukio Tanaka, multiple people
- Yūko Tanaka, Japanese actress
- Yurie Tanaka, Japanese biathlete
- Yūsuke Tanaka, multiple people
- Yutaka Tanaka, Japanese manga artist
Fictional characters
- Lady Tanaka, is the main antagonist in the movie "The Punisher"
- Tanaka, a character in the manga series Black Butler
- Tanaka, the household servant in Full Moon o Sagashite
- Tanaka, the Usami household butler in Junjo Romantica
- Tanaka, from Kimi ni Todoke
- Tanaka, a character in the light novel series Mayoi Neko Overrun
- Tanaka, from Tanaka-kun is Always Listless
- Mr. Tanaka, from F-Zero GX
- Mr. Tanaka, from Sonic X
- Mr. Tanaka, from the anime Gantz
- President Tanaka, from Persona 3
- Aiko Tanaka from Oyasumi Punpun
- David Tanaka, a character in the soap opera Neighbours
- Drew Tanaka from The Heroes of Olympus and The Kane Chronicles
- Gundam Tanaka from '
- Holly Tanaka, a character in the video Game '
- Ichiro Tanaka, character from
- Isuro Tanaka, from the film Major League II
- Tanaka Kazuya, from School Rumble
- Ken Tanaka, a character in the television series Glee
- Leo Tanaka, a character in the soap opera Neighbours
- Mariko Tanaka, from Wing Commander
- Opal Tanaka, a Marvel Comics character
- Ryūnosuke Tanaka from Haikyū!!
- Shinichiro Tanaka, from Battle Royale
- Shinji Tanaka, from Yakuza
- Souichirou Tanaka, character from Genshiken
- Taro Tanaka, from Taro the Space Alien
- Tiger Tanaka, from the James Bond novel and film You Only Live Twice
- Tom Tanaka, from Durarara!
- Lt. Yoshi Tanaka from Magnum, P.I.
- , main character of the manga series BECK