Kenta

Kenta (廉侍) is a masculine Japanese given name. (written: 健太, 建太, 研太, 賢太 or ケンタ in katakana).

Notable people with the name include:


 * Kenta Abe (阿部 健太), Japanese baseball player
 * Kenta Fukasaku (深作 健太), Japanese film director
 * Kenta Hayashi (林 健太), Japanese kickboxer
 * Kenta Kobashi (小橋 建太), Japanese professional wrestler
 * Kenta Kobayashi (小林 健太), Japanese professional wrestler known in WWE as Hideo Itami, and otherwise his first name stylized in all caps
 * Kenta Hasegawa (長谷川 健太), Japanese international football player
 * Kenta Ito (伊藤 研太), Japanese footballer
 * Kenta Kato (加藤 健太), Japanese footballer
 * Kenta Maeda (前田 健太), Japanese baseball player
 * Kenta Matsudaira (松平 健太), Japanese table tennis player
 * Kenta Miyake (三宅 健太), Japanese voice actor
 * Kenta Miyawaki (宮脇 健太), Japanese footballer
 * Kenta Nagasawa (長澤 憲大), Japanese judoka
 * Kenta Nishizawa (西澤 健太), Japanese footballer
 * Kenta Shimaoka (島岡 健太), Japanese footballer
 * Kenta Shimizu (清水 健太), Japanese footballer
 * Kenta Takada (髙田 健太), Japanese singer, member of South Korean groups JBJ and JBJ95
 * Kenta Takanashi (高梨 健太), Japanese volleyball player
 * Kenta Tanaka (田中 健太), Japanese field hockey player
 * Kenta Yamazaki (山崎 健太), Japanese footballer
 * Kenta Yanagida (柳田 健太), Japanese footballer
 * Kenta Yoshikawa (吉川 健太), Japanese footballer

Fictional characters

 * Kenta (Black Mask) (ケンタ) in Hikari Sentai Maskman
 * Kenta (ケンタ) in Ani-Yoko
 * Kenta Date (a.k.a. MegaRed) (伊達 健太) in Denji Sentai Megaranger
 * Kenta Kitagawa (北川 健太) in Digimon Tamers
 * Kenta, civilian name of Lung, a villain in the web publication Worm