Kondo

Kondō (近藤 "near wisteria") is a Japanese surname, and is sometimes used in other contexts.

People named Kondo:
* Koji Kondo, musician, composer
* Dorinne K. Kondo, anthropologist
* Ezekiel Kondo, Bishop, Diocese of Khartoum, Episcopal Church of the Sudan
* Jun Kondo, physicist, researcher of the Kondo effect
* Nobutake Kondo, naval commander
* Kondo Isami, chief of the Shinsengumi
* Kondo Keitaro, author, recipient of the Akutagawa Prize
* Junya Kondo, founder of Hatena Co., Ltd.
* Tomio Kondō, photographer of Sado island
* Tomoko Kondo, a member of the 80's J-Pop duo BaBe
* Yoshifumi Kondō, an animator and film director from Studio Ghibli.
* Yuki Kondo, mixed martial arts fighter.
* Kondo was the former name of Behanzin, King of Dahomey (now Benin), Africa

Other uses of Kondo:
* Kondō (lit. Golden Hall in Japanese [this Kondō is "金堂"] ), is usually the main hall of a Buddhist temple, eg. in Hōryū-ji, Nara Prefecture
* In physics, the Kondo effect regards the presence of a magnetic impurity in a solid. It is named for Jun Kondo.
* Kondo can refer to the KHR-2HV robot.

ee also

* Japanese name