Tadao
Tadao is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Tadao Ando, Japanese architect
- Aoyama Tadao, Japanese daimyō
- Tadao Baba, Japanese motorcycle engineer
- Tadao Chino, Japanese banker
- Tadao Higuchi, Japanese photographer
- Tadao Horie, Japanese footballer and manager
- Tadao Ikeda, Japanese screenwriter and film director
- Tadao Kasami, Japanese information theorist
- Tadao Kikumoto, Japanese inventor and engineer
- Tadao Kitajima, Japanese shogi player
- Tadao Kobayashi, Japanese footballer and manager
- Tadao Mitome, Japanese photographer
- Tadao Nagahama, Japanese anime director
- Tadao Nakamura, Japanese golfer
- Tadao Oda, Japanese mathematician
- Tadao Onishi, Japanese footballer
- Tadao Sato, Japanese film critic and theorist
- Tadao Sawai, Japanese musician
- Shizuki Tadao, Japanese astronomer and translator
- Tadao Takayama, Japanese footballer
- Tadao Tannaka, Japanese mathematician
- Tadao Tominari, Japanese photographer
- Tadao Tomomatsu, American actor
- Tadao Tosa, Japanese diver
- Tadao Uchikoshi, Japanese long-distance runner
- Tadao Uesako, Japanese gymnast
- Tadao Umesao, Japanese anthropologist
- Tadao Watanabe, Japanese politician
- Tadao Yanaihara, Japanese economist and academic
- Tadao Yasuda, Japanese sumo and professional wrestler
Fictional characters
- Tadao Hiiragi, a character in the manga series Lucky Star
- Tadao Yokoshima, a character in the manga series Ghost Sweeper Mikami
