List of Famous people named Kazuo

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is a British novelist, screenwriter and short-story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and moved to England in 1960 when he was five.

Kazuo Shii is a Japanese politician and Chairman of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) since 2000.

Kazuo Matsui is a Japanese retired professional baseball player who played as a shortstop. He is a switch-hitter.

Kazuo Tokumitsu is a Japanese TV presenter and announcer.

Kazuo Okada is a Japanese billionaire businessman, and art collector.

Kazuo Fujisawa is a trainer of Thoroughbred race horses. He has been a licensed trainer in Japan since 1987 and since 1993 has won the training title eleven times.

Kazuo Funaki is a Japanese Enka singer. Kazuo also has a career as a stage actor, film actor, and TV actor.

Kazuo "Kaz" Hirai is a Japanese businessman. He is best known as the former chairman of Sony Corporation, serving from April 2018 to June 2019, as well as president and CEO from April 2012 to April 2018. He also served as a board member of Sony Computer Entertainment and chairman and co-CEO of Sony Entertainment. He was noted by Entertainment Weekly as one of the most powerful executives in the entertainment industry. He led the Sony Computer Entertainment division between 2007 and 2012, and then became president and CEO of Sony on April 1, 2012. Through his tenure as CEO, Sony experienced a resurgence during the 2010s. On April 1, 2018, Hirai stepped down as president and CEO, becoming chairman of Sony Corporation. He fully retired from Sony on June 18, 2019, otherwise remaining as a senior adviser to the company.

Kazuo Fukumori is a former Japanese right-handed relief pitcher.

Kazuo Aichi is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Ōta, Tokyo and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1976. From 1993 to 1994 he was Director General of the Japan Defense Agency. After losing his seat in 2000, he retired in 2002 but was re-elected in 2005.