Taku

Taku may refer to:

North America

 * the Taku River, in Alaska and British Columbia
 * Fort Taku, also known as Fort Durham and as Taku, a former fort of the Hudson's Bay Company near the mouth of the Taku River
 * the Taku Glacier, in Alaska near Juneau
 * Taku Towers, in Alaska, near Juneau
 * Taku Harbor, in Alaska, near Juneau
 * Taku Inlet, in Alaska
 * the Taku Plateau, in British Columbia
 * Taku Arm of Tagish Lake in British Columbia
 * Taku, British Columbia, a locality on Tagish Lake

Asia

 * Taku Forts, forts on the south bank of the Hai He, in Tanggu District, Tianjin municipality, in northeastern China
 * Taku, Saga, a city in Saga prefecture on the island of Kyūshū, Japan
 * Taku, India, a town in India

Oceania

 * Taku, Kiribati, a village in Kiribati.

Peoples

 * The Taku people, an Alaska Native group, who are a kwaan or tribe of the Tlingit
 * Taku River Tlingit First Nation, government in British Columbia

Surname

 * Moses Taku, a rabbi, 13th-century Tosafist from Bohemia
 * Afrim Taku (born 1989), an Albanian soccer player
 * Akwo Tarh Ayuk Taku (born 1992), Cameroonian soccer player

Nickname

 * Ta-ku, an Australian musician
 * Taku, a nickname for Takuma Sato
 * Taku, a nickname for people named Takudzwa, Takura or Takunda in the Shona language

Given name
"Taku" is a Japanese male given name.
 * Taku Akahoshi (赤星 拓), Japanese footballer
 * Taku Hiraoka (平岡 卓), Japanese snowboarder
 * Taku Morinaga (森永 卓), Japanese footballer
 * Taku Hirano (平野 琢也), Japanese recording artist and percussionist for Fleetwood Mac
 * Taku Kishimoto (岸本卓), Japanese screenwriter
 * Taku Morishita, Japanese shogi player
 * Taku Nakanishi (中西 拓), Japanese freestyle skier
 * Taku Saito (斎藤 卓), Japanese basketball coach
 * Taku Sugimoto, Japanese guitarist
 * Taku Takahashi (born 1974), one half of the hip-hop duo M-Flo
 * Taku Ushinohama (牛之濵 拓), Japanese footballer
 * Taku Watanabe (渡辺 卓), Japanese footballer
 * Taku Yamamoto (山本 拓), Japanese politician

Characters

 * Taku, husband of Marvel Comics superhero Venomm from Black Panther comics

Transportation

 * HMS Taku (1900), the former German-built (at Schichau-Werke in 1898) Chinese destroyer Hai Lung captured by the British Navy at the Battle of Taku Forts on 17 June 1900 and added to the British Navy; she was sold in October 1916 to be scrapped
 * HMS Taku (N38), a 1939 British T class submarine
 * MV Taku, a 1963 vessel for the Alaska Marine Highway System
 * USC&GS Taku, an 1898 United States Coast Guard and Geodetic Survey ship
 * Taku Station, a railway station in Taku, Saga, Japan

Animals

 * Taku (whale), an Orca (killer whale) that once lived at SeaWorld
 * The Fijian name for the Hawksbill turtle

Other uses

 * Battle of Taku Forts (disambiguation), several battles in China
 * Takuu language or "Taku", a Polynesian language (ISO 639-3:nho)
 * 9574 Taku, an asteroid