Taro (given name)

Tarō (太郎) is a stand-alone Japanese given name or a common name suffix for males (literally “eldest son”).

People named Tarō include:
*Akebono Taro (曙 太郎), retired sumo wrestler,
*Taro Aso (麻生 太郎), Japanese politician
*Taro Chiezo (千恵藏 太郎), artist
*Taro Gomi (五味 太郎), children's book writer and illustrator
*Taro Hakase(葉加瀬 太郎), musician, violinist
*Taro Ishida (石田 太郎), voice actor
*Katsura Taro (桂 太郎), soldier, politician, and former Prime Minister of Japan
*Tarō Kimura (journalist)(木村 太郎)
*Taro Nakano, alleged yakuza member
*Tarō Okamoto(岡本 太郎), artist
*Ukiyoe Taro (浮世絵 太郎), author

People with tarō (～太郎) as a name suffix:
*Ryutaro Hashimoto (橋本 龍太郎), former prime minister of Japan
*Shintaro Ishihara (石原 慎太郎), governor of Tokyo
*Rentarō Taki (滝 廉太郎), composer

Fiction characters

Fictional people named Tarō:
*Taro Hanaukyo of "Hanaukyo Maid Team" ("Hanaukyo Maid Tai")
*Taro Kagami of the pilot version of "Death Note"
*Taro Tanaka of "Taro the Space Alien" ("Uchūjin Tanaka Tarō")
*Pantyhose Taro of "Ranma ½"
*Taro (Pita-Ten) a character from the anime/manga "Pitaten"
*Taro (Battle Realms), the elder prince of the Serpent Clan from real-time strategy computer game "Battle Realms"
*Ultraman Taro, the sixth Ultra Brother.
*Taro Soramame, a character in "Dr. Slump" media
*Taro Misaki of the manga/anime series "Captain Tsubasa"
*Taro Raimon of the manga/anime series "Eyeshield 21"
*Taro of the anime series Serial Experiments Lain

Fictional characters with tarō (～太郎) as a name suffix:
*Kintaro (金太郎), "Golden Boy", a Japanese fairy tale
*Momotaro (桃太郎), "Peach Boy", a Japanese fairy tale
*Urashima Tarō (浦島 太郎), Japanese fairy tale
*Nokotarou, the Japanese name of Koops from ""'

ee also

*Bandō Tarō(坂東太郎), a nickname of Tone River
*Taro (太郎), a famed Sakhalin Husky of the 1958 Japanese Antarctica expedition
* Taro (disambiguation)