Kazuo
Kazuo is a masculine Japanese given name.Possible spellings
It has several written forms, and the meaning depends on the characters used. 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
- カズオ
People with the name
- Kazuo Abe, Japanese sport wrestler
- Kazuo Aoki, Japanese government minister during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and into World War II
- Kazuo Azuma, Japanese shogi player
- Kazuo Chiba, aikido
- Kazuo Harada, anime producer, audio director, and sound effects director
- Kazuo Hirai, 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 Hayashi, Japanese actor and voice actor
- Kazuo Hiramatsu, accounting scholar, president of Kwansei Gakuin University
- Kazuo Hirotsu, Japanese novelist and literary critic active in the Shōwa period of Japan
- Kazuo Ichinohe, Japanese voice actor
- Kazuo Igarashi, Japanese aikidoka
- Kazuo Inamori, Japanese businessman
- Kazuo Inoue, Japanese cyclist
- Kazuo Ishiguro, British author
- Kazuo Kawai, Japanese table tennis player
- Kazuo Kimura, Japanese high jumper
- Kazuo Kitagawa, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the Japanese Cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi
- Kazuo Kobayashi, Japanese diver
- Kazuo Koike, manga artist
- Kazuo Komizu, Japanese film director
- Kazuo Kubokawa, astronomer
- Kazuo Kumakura, Japanese actor, voice actor and theatre director
- Kazuo Matsuda, Japanese ice hockey player
- Kazuo Matsui, baseball player
- Kazuo Misaki, Japanese professional mixed martial arts fighter and former judoka
- Kazuo Miyagawa, cinematographer
- Kazuo Mizutani, Chief of Staff of Japanese Imperial Guard during the close of World War II
- Kazuo Nakamura, Japanese-Canadian painter and sculptor
- Kazuo Nakamura, Japanese basketball coach
- Kazuo Nakanishi, briefly the leader of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate in the chaotic years of the Yama-Ichi War
- Kazuo Nishii, Japanese magazine editor and photography critic
- Kazuo Noda, Japanese swimmer
- Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer associated with Butoh
- Kazuo Oka, Japanese voice actor
- Kazuo Okamura, Japanese-American professional wrestler
- Kazuo Ozaki, Japanese footballer
- Kazuo Saito, Japanese footballer and manager
- Kazuo Saito, Japanese racewalker
- Kazuo Sakamaki, first prisoner of war held by the US in World War II
- Kazuo Sakurada retired Japanese professional wrestler
- Kazuo Sato, Japanese cross-country skier
- Kazuo Shimizu, Japanese footballer
- Kazuo Shimizu, Japanese sport wrestler
- Kazuo Sugimoto, Japanese shogi player
- Kazuo Takahashi, Japanese mixed martial artist
- Kazuo Taoka, Godfather of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate
- Kazuo Umezu, horror manga author
- Kazuo Wada, Japanese businessman
- Kazuo Yamada, Japanese conductor
- Kazuo Yamaguchi, Japanese sociologist
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 Sawa is the name of a video game composer. Notable works include the soundtracks for The Battle of Olympus and Rivercity Ransom
- 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
