List of Famous people named Taira

Taira no Kiyomori was a military leader of the late Heian period of Japan. He established the first samurai-dominated administrative government in the history of Japan.

Taira no Masakado was a Heian period provincial magnate (gōzoku) and samurai based in eastern Japan, notable for leading the first recorded uprising against the central government in Kyoto.

Taira Hara was a Japanese manga artist and tarento born in Tosayamada, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. He was a long-time resident of Koishikawa, Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. He made his professional manga debut in 1963 with his story Shinjuku BB , published in Weekly Manga Times.

Shinken Taira was a Japanese martial artist, born as Shinken Maezato in 1897 on Kume island in the Ryūkyū archipelago.

Taira no Kagekiyo, also known as Kazusa no Shichirō, was a samurai of the Taira clan who took part in the Genpei War of Japan, against the Minamoto clan.

Taira Fujita is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball infielder.

Taira no Sadamori (10th century) was a samurai of the Taira clan who was involved in suppressing the revolt of Taira no Masakado in the 930s-940. He was the son of Taira no Kunika and grandson of Taira no Takamochi, the founder of the Kammu Heishi line. Sadamori was an ancestor of the Hōjō clan which wielded considerable political power several centuries later, during the Kamakura period; his fourth son, Taira no Korehira, was the progenitor of the Ise Taira branch family.

Taira no Tomomori (1152–1185) was the son of Taira no Kiyomori, and one of the Taira Clan's chief commanders in the Genpei War at the end of the Heian period of Japanese history.

Taira Uematsu is a Japanese professional baseball coach for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB). He is the first full-time Japanese coach in MLB history.