List of Famous people named Takao

Takao Saito is a Japanese manga artist, although he rejects the term and considers his work gekiga. He is best known for Golgo 13, which has been serialized in Big Comic since 1968, making it the oldest manga still in publication.

Takao Osawa is a Japanese actor.

Takao Ochi is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Setagaya, Tokyo, he graduated from Keio University with a degree in economics in March 1986 and from École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales in France in June 1991. He also received a master's degree in the history of foreign affairs in Japanese politics from the University of Tokyo in March 2005. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in September 2005 after running unsuccessfully in 2003. He is affiliated to the revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi.

Takao Obana is a former Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher and coach. Takao was the Yakult Swallows's fourth pick in the 1978 draft and played the entirety of his 14-year career with the team. He was also the manager of the Yokohama BayStars, the pitching coach for the Swallows, the Chiba Lotte Marines, Fukuoka Daiei Hawks and the Yomiuri Giants.

Takao Horiuchi is a Japanese pop and enka singer. He won a 1990 Japan Record Award for enka.

Takao Makino is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A graduate of Waseda University and former member of the assembly of Shizuoka Prefecture, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2007.

Takao Suzuki was a Japanese sociolinguist, He was the author of ことばと文化, translated into English as Words in Context.

Takao Kisugi , born November 16, 1950 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese singer and songwriter.

Takao Doi is a Japanese astronaut, engineer and veteran of two NASA Space Shuttle missions.