List of Famous people with last name Nakano

Taiga Nakano is a Japanese actor. He is represented with Stardust Promotion. He is the second son of actor Hideo Nakano. He's sometimes only credited as Taiga.

Keiko Aoki is a Japanese retired professional wrestler and professional golfer better known as Bull Nakano . She began competing in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) as a teenager under the ring name Bull Nakano. As a wrestler she was a villain, who often teamed with her mentor Dump Matsumoto. In Japan, she held several of AJW's singles and tag team championships. After being phased out by the company in the early 1990s, she traveled to North America, where she first competed in Mexico's Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), becoming its first World Women's Champion. In 1994, she made her way to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), where she had feuded with Alundra Blayze over the WWF Women's Championship. After holding the title once, she also competed in World Championship Wrestling (WCW). In 1998, Nakano began competing as a professional golfer, and in 2006, she joined a tour with the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA).

Masashi Nakano is a Japanese politician and former Secretary-General of the Party for Japanese Kokoro. A native of Shiogama, Miyagi and graduate of Tohoku Gakuin University, he was first elected to the assembly of Miyagi Prefecture in 1983. During his second term as an assemblyman, he contested the national House of Councillors election in 1989 as an independent but was defeated. He was elected to the House of Representatives in the national Diet as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party in the 1996 general election, representing Miyagi District No.2. In the 2000 general election he was defeated in his district by Sayuri Kamata. In the 2003 general election he was again defeated by Kamata in Miyagi No.2, but was elected to return to the House of Representatives as a member for the Tōhoku proportional block. He retained his seat in the 2005 general election and was appointed Senior Vice-Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in Shinzo Abe's first ministry in 2007. He contested his seat in the 2009 general election as a Liberal Democratic Party candidate and with an endorsement from the Komeito Party, but lost his seat as the LDP lost a general election for the first time since the party was formed in 1955.

Yukari Nakano is a Japanese former competitive figure skater. She is the 2006 Four Continents silver medalist, the 2003 Four Continents bronze medalist, the 2005–06 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, the 2007 Asian Winter Games champion, and a three-time Japanese national bronze medalist. Nakano is one of twelve female skaters to perform a triple Axel in international competition.

Ryoko Nakano is a Japanese actress.

Koichi Nakano of Japan is a former professional racing cyclist and ten-consecutive-time world champion in track cycling sprint. He is among the best track sprinters of modern times. From 1977 to 1986, he won an unprecedented 10 consecutive gold medals in professional sprint events at the UCI track world Championships. He was one of the most successful competitors of all-time on the Japanese professional keirin circuit.

Yuria Tauchi is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to World Wonder Ring Stardom, under the ring name Tam Nakano , where she's the current Artist of Stardom Champion alongside Mina Shirakawa and Unagi Sayaka Nakano, a title she held twice before. Nakano began her career in the Actwres Girl’z promotion as an idol dancer in 2015 before training under Yuna Manase and making her debut as a professional wrestler in July 2016. Nakano left the promotion in 2017, and began to compete in Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling (FMW) and World Wonder Ring Stardom as a freelancer before officially signing with Stardom in November 2017.

Shinya Nakano is a Japanese footballer who plays as a left-back for Sagan Tosu.

Nakano Kumiko is an actress who debuted as a Japanese idol with the girl band Osaka Performance Doll from 1993 to 1997.

Kei Nakano is a Japanese football player. He plays for FC Imabari.