Taku may refer to:

Places

North America

* the

Taku River The Taku River (Tlingit language, Lingít: ''T'aaḵu Héeni'') is a river running from British Columbia, Canada, to the northwestern coast of North America, at Juneau, Alaska. The river basin spreads across . The Taku is a very productive salmon ...

, in Alaska and British Columbia ** Fort Taku, also known as

Fort Durham Fort Durham, also known as Fort Taku, Taku, Taco, and Tacouw, is an archaeological site near Taku Harbor, Alaska, within the limits of Juneau City and Borough and Tongass National Forest. It was one of three Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) posts ...

and as Taku, a former fort of the Hudson's Bay Company near the mouth of the Taku River ** the

Taku Glacier Taku Glacier (Lingít: ''T'aaḵú Ḵwáan Sít'i'') is a tidewater glacier located in Taku Inlet in the U.S. state of Alaska, just southeast of the city of Juneau. Recognized as the deepest and thickest alpine temperate glacier known in the ...

, in Alaska near Juneau **

Taku Towers Taku Towers is a double summit mountain located in the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains, in the U.S. state of Alaska. The two north and south peaks, 0.2 mi apart with 6,653+ and 6,605-ft elevations respectively, are situated in the Taku R ...

, in Alaska, near Juneau ** Taku Harbor, in Alaska, near Juneau **

Taku Inlet Taku Inlet is an inlet located in the U.S. state of Alaska. It extends in a northeast direction from Stephens Passage in the Alexander Archipelago, about southeast of Juneau, widening to a basin where discharge from the Taku River and Taku Glacie ...

, in Alaska ** the

Taku Plateau The Taku Plateau is a sub-plateau of the Stikine Plateau in the far northwestern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It lies to the south of the Teslin Plateau, part of the Yukon Plateau and to the southeast of the Yukon Plateau's other major s ...

, in British Columbia *

Taku Arm Tagish Lake is a lake in Yukon and northern British Columbia, Canada. The lake is long and averages wide with an area of , about two thirds of which is in British Columbia. The average depth is and maximum depth is . It has two arms, the Ta ...

of Tagish Lake in British Columbia ** Taku, British Columbia, a locality on Tagish Lake

Asia

Taku Forts The Taku Forts or Dagukou Forts (大沽口炮台), also called the Peiho Forts are forts located by the Hai River (Peiho River) estuary in the Binhai New Area, Tianjin, in northeastern China. They are located southeast of the Tianjin urban ...

, forts on the south bank of the Hai He, in Tanggu District, Tianjin municipality, in northeastern China *

Taku, Saga Taku Seibyo Landscape of southern Taku is a city located in Saga Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 17,807 in 7,912 households, and a population density of 180 persons per km2. The total area of ...

, 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 The Taku are an Alaska Native people, a ''ḵwáan'' or geographic subdivision of the Tlingit, known in their own language as the ''Tʼaaḵu Ḵwáan'' or "Geese Flood Upriver Tribe". The Taku traditionally lived along the northwestern coast ...

, an Alaska Native group, who are a ''kwaan'' or tribe of the Tlingit *

Taku River Tlingit First Nation The Taku River Tlingit First Nation are the band government of the Inland Tlingit in far northern British Columbia, Canada and also in Yukon. They comprise two ''ḵwaan'' (tribes) of the Tlingit people, Tlingit people, who are otherwise coastal, ...

, government in British Columbia

People

Surname

* Moses Taku, a rabbi, 13th-century Tosafist from Bohemia *

Afrim Taku Afrim Taku (born 4 August 1989) is an Albanian professional Association football, footballer. Club career Early career Taku began his football career as a 13-year-old when he joined the KF Tirana Reserves and Academy, KF Tirana academy, where h ...

(born 1989), an Albanian soccer player *

Akwo Tarh Ayuk Taku Akwo Tarh Ayuk Taku (born 7 December 1992) is a Cameroonian footballer who plays as a midfielder. Career Taku first arrived in Europe from Cameroon as a 14-year-old, joining an academy in Germany. He then returned to Cameroon to play for Les A ...

(born 1992), Cameroonian soccer player

Nickname

* Ta-ku, an Australian musician *Taku, a nickname for

Takuma Sato is a Japanese racing driver, who competes part-time in the IndyCar Series for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. Sato competed in Formula One from to . In American open-wheel racing, Sato is a two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500 in 2017 a ...

*Taku, a nickname for people named Takudzwa, Takura or Takunda in the

Shona language Shona ( ; ) is a Bantu language spoken by the Shona people of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The term is variously used to collectively describe all the Central Shonic varieties (comprising Zezuru, Manyika, Korekore and Karanga or Ndau) or specifica ...

Given name

"Taku" is a Japanese male given name. *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese snowboarder *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese recording artist and percussionist for

Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac are a British-American Rock music, rock band formed in London in 1967 by the singer and guitarist Peter Green (musician), Peter Green. Green named the band by combining the surnames of the drummer, Mick Fleetwood, and the bassis ...

*, Japanese screenwriter *

Taku Lee Taku Lee (born February 20, 1995) is a Japanese professional gridiron football running back for the Obic Seagulls of the Japanese X-League. Early life and high school After enrolling in Nanzan Junior High School, Lee started playing American ...

(born 1995), Japanese gridiron football player *

Taku Morishita is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 9- dan. He is a former director of the Japanese Shogi Association, and is currently serving as an executive director. Early life Taku Morishita was born in Kokura, Kitakyushu on July 10, 1966. In ...

, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese freestyle skier *, Japanese basketball coach *

Taku Sugimoto Taku Sugimoto, born December 20, 1965, in Tokyo, is a Japanese guitarist. He initially gained attention in the late 1990s for his restrained, melodic playing, unusual in the world of free improvisation. Critic Bruce Russell describes this era o ...

, Japanese guitarist *

Taku Takahashi is a Japanese DJ and record producer who debuted in 1997 as a producer of the hip hop group M-Flo. The group rose to prominence in the early 2000s, with hit singles such as "How You Like Me Now?" and "Come Again." Takahashi was also a member of ...

(born 1974), one half of the hip-hop duo M-Flo *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese politician

Characters

* Taku, husband of

Marvel Comics Marvel Comics is a New York City–based comic book publishing, publisher, a property of the Walt Disney Company since December 31, 2009, and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023. Marvel was founded in 1939 by Martin G ...

superhero Venomm from ''

Black Panther A black panther is the Melanism, melanistic colour variant of the leopard (''Panthera pardus'') and the jaguar (''Panthera onca''). Black panthers of both species have excess black pigments, but their typical Rosette (zoology), rosettes are al ...

'' comics

Transportation

* HMS ''Taku'' (1900), the former German-built (at

Schichau-Werke The Schichau-Werke (F. Schichau, Maschinen- und Lokomotivfabrik, Schiffswerft und Eisengießerei GmbH) was a German engineering works and shipyard based in Elbing, Germany (now Elbląg, Poland) on the Frisches Haff (Vistula Lagoon) of then-East ...

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 is a passenger railway station on the Karatsu Line operated by JR Kyushu located in the city of Taku, Saga Prefecture, Japan. Lines The station is served by the Karatsu Line and is located 15.2 km from the starting point of the line at . ...

, a railway station in Taku, Saga, Japan

Animals

Taku (whale) Orcas, or killer whales, are large predatory cetaceans that were first captured live and displayed in exhibitions in the 1960s. They soon became popular attractions at public aquariums and aquatic theme parks due to their intelligence, trainab ...

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

Hawksbill turtle The hawksbill sea turtle (''Eretmochelys imbricata'') is a critically endangered sea turtle belonging to the family Cheloniidae. It is the only extant species in the genus ''Eretmochelys''. The species has a global distribution that is largely ...

Other uses

* Battle of Taku Forts (disambiguation), several battles in China *

Takuu language Takuu (also Mortlock, Taku, Tau, or Tauu) is a Polynesian language from the Ellicean group spoken on the atoll of Takuu, near Bougainville Island. It is very closely related to Nukumanu and Nukuria from Papua New Guinea and to Ontong Java ...

or "Taku", a Polynesian language (ISO 639-3:nho) * 9574 Taku, an asteroid