Nakai (surname)

Nakai (written: 中井, 中居 or 仲井) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Asakazu Nakai (中井 朝一), Japanese cinematographer
 * Daisuke Nakai (中井 大介), Japanese professional baseball infielder
 * Hiroe Nakai (中井 広恵), Japanese shogi player
 * Hiroshi Nakai (中井 洽), Japanese politician
 * Hiroshi Nakai (中井 弘), Japanese politician
 * Kazuya Nakai (中井 和哉), Japanese voice actor
 * Kie Nakai (中井 貴惠), Japanese actress
 * Kiichi Nakai (中井 貴一), Japanese actor
 * Masahiro Nakai (中居 正広), Japanese singer, actor and host
 * Masakazu Nakai (中井 正一), Japanese aesthetician, film theorist, librarian, and social activist
 * Masutaro Nakai (中井 増太郎), general in the Imperial Japanese Army
 * Nakai Chikuzan (中井 竹山), Japanese politician
 * Noémie Nakai (中井 ノエミ), Japanese actress, director
 * Norio Nakai (中井 紀夫), Japanese writer
 * R. Carlos Nakai (born 1946), Native American flautist
 * Shogo Nakai (中井 昇吾), former Japanese football player
 * Takahiro Nakai (中井 貴裕), Japanese judoka
 * Takuhiro Nakai (中井 卓大), Japanese footballer, known as Pipi
 * Takenoshin Nakai (中井 猛之進), Japanese botanist
 * Takezo Nakai (中井 武三), Japanese former handball player
 * Yasuyuki Nakai (中井 康之), Japanese baseball player
 * Yoshikazu Nakai (中井 喜和), Japanese mathematician, originator of the Nakai conjecture
 * Yoshiki Nakai (中井 義樹), Japanese football player
 * Yoshinori Nakai (中井 義則), Japanese artist
 * Yuki Nakai (中井 祐樹), retired Japanese shooto practitioner and mixed martial artist
 * Yukino Nakai (仲井 由希乃), Japanese badminton player

Nakai is a surname among the Navajo people of the American Southwest. Notable people with the surname Nakai include


 * R. Carlos Nakai (born 1946) American musician, nominated for 11 Grammy Awards.