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:
*, Japanese architect
*, Japanese ''daimyō''
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Tadao Baba (born 1944), Japanese motorcycle engineer
*, Japanese banker
*, Japanese photographer
*, Japanese footballer and manager
*, Japanese screenwriter and film director
*, Japanese information theorist
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Tadao Kikumoto is Roland's senior managing director and head of its R&D center. He designed the TB-303 bass synthesizer and the TR-909 drum machine. He was also the chief engineer of the Roland TR-808 drum machine.
Roland TR-808
Design
The Roland TR-808, ...
, Japanese inventor and engineer
*, Japanese shogi player
*, Japanese footballer and manager
*, Japanese photographer
*, Japanese anime director
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Tadao Nakamura (born 1947), Japanese golfer
*, Japanese mathematician
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese film critic and theorist
*, Japanese musician
*, Japanese astronomer and translator
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese mathematician
*, Japanese photographer
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Tadao Tomomatsu
Tadao Tomomatsu is an actor, instructor, and science fiction personality living in the Los Angeles, California area.
Career
Tadao has appeared in '' Diagnosis: Murder'', '' The Tracey Ullman Show'', the films ''Inspector Gadget'' and ''Godzilla' ...
, American actor
*, Japanese diver
*, Japanese long-distance runner
*, Japanese gymnast
*, Japanese anthropologist
*, Japanese politician
*, Japanese economist and academic
*, Japanese sumo and professional wrestler
Fictional characters
*, a character in the manga series ''
Lucky Star''
*, a character in the manga series ''
Ghost Sweeper Mikami''
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Japanese masculine given names