Tadao

Tadao (written: 忠雄, 忠夫, 忠男, 忠生, 忠郎 or 理男) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:


 * Tadao Ando (安藤 忠雄), Japanese architect
 * Aoyama Tadao (青山 忠雄), Japanese daimyō
 * Tadao Baba (馬場 忠雄), Japanese motorcycle engineer
 * Tadao Chino (千野 忠男), Japanese banker
 * Tadao Higuchi (樋口 忠男), Japanese photographer
 * Tadao Horie (堀江 忠男), Japanese footballer and manager
 * Tadao Ikeda (池田 忠雄), Japanese screenwriter and film director
 * Tadao Kasami (嵩 忠雄), Japanese information theorist
 * Tadao Kikumoto (菊本忠男), Japanese inventor and engineer
 * Tadao Kitajima (北島 忠雄), Japanese shogi player
 * Tadao Kobayashi (小林 忠生), Japanese footballer and manager
 * Tadao Mitome (三留 理男), Japanese photographer
 * Tadao Nagahama (長浜 忠夫), Japanese anime director
 * Tadao Nakamura (born 1947), Japanese golfer
 * Tadao Oda (小田 忠雄), Japanese mathematician
 * Tadao Onishi (大西 忠生), Japanese footballer
 * Tadao Sato (佐藤 忠男), Japanese film critic and theorist
 * Tadao Sawai (沢井 忠夫), Japanese musician
 * Shizuki Tadao (志筑 忠雄), Japanese astronomer and translator
 * Tadao Takayama (高山 忠雄), Japanese footballer
 * Tadao Tannaka (淡中 忠郎), Japanese mathematician
 * Tadao Tominari (冨成 忠夫), Japanese photographer
 * Tadao Tomomatsu, American actor
 * Tadao Tosa (土佐 忠雄), Japanese diver
 * Tadao Uchikoshi (打越 忠夫), Japanese long-distance runner
 * Tadao Uesako (上迫 忠夫), Japanese gymnast
 * Tadao Umesao (梅棹 忠夫), Japanese anthropologist
 * Tadao Watanabe (渡辺 忠雄), Japanese politician
 * Tadao Yanaihara (矢内原 忠雄), Japanese economist and academic
 * Tadao Yasuda (安田 忠夫), Japanese sumo and professional wrestler

Fictional characters

 * Tadao Hiiragi (柊 ただお), a character in the manga series Lucky Star
 * Tadao Yokoshima (横島 忠夫), a character in the manga series Ghost Sweeper Mikami