Taro (disambiguation)

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Taro can refer to:

• Taro, a tropical plant known as a root vegetable.

• Tarō (太郎), a stand-alone Japanese given name or a common name suffix for males (literally “eldest son”). People named Tarō include:
  • Akebono Taro (曙 太郎), retired sumo wrestler,
  • Taro Aso (麻生 太郎), politician , former Minister for Foreign Affairs
  • Taro Chiezo (千恵藏 太郎), artist
  • Taro Gomi (五味 太郎), children's book writer and illustrator
  • Taro Hakase(葉加瀬 太郎), musician, violinist
  • Taro Ishida (石田 太郎), voice actor
  • Katsura Taro (桂 太郎), soldier, politician, former Prime Minister of Japan
  • Tarō Kimura(木村 太郎), journalist
  • Taro Nakano, alleged yakuza member
  • Tarō Okamoto(岡本 太郎), artist
  • Ukiyoe Taro (浮世絵 太郎), author
  • Taro (太郎), the famed Sakhalin Husky of the 1958 Japanese Antarctica expedition, depicted in the film Nankyoku Monogatari
  • Bandō Tarō(坂東太郎), a nickname of Tone River.

• Taro may refer to the following fictional characters:
  • Taro Hanaukyo of Hanaukyo Maid Team (Hanaukyo Maid Tai)
  • Taro Kagami of the pilot version of Death Note
  • Taro Tanaka of Taro the Space Alien (Uchūjin Tanaka Tarō)
  • Pantyhose Taro of Ranma ½
  • Taro (Pita-Ten) a character from the anime/manga Pitaten
  • Taro (Battle Realms), the elder prince of the Serpent Clan from Battle Realms.
  • Ultraman Taro, the sixth Ultra Brother.
  • Taro Soramame, a character in Dr. Slump media
  • Taro Misaki of the manga/anime series Captain Tsubasa
  • Taro of the anime series Serial Experiments Lain

• People or fictional characters with ~tarō (～太郎) as a name suffix include:
  • Ryutaro Hashimoto (橋本 龍太郎), former prime minister of Japan
  • Shintaro Ishihara (石原 慎太郎), Tokyo, Japan's current governor
  • Rentarō Taki (滝 廉太郎), composer
  • Kintaro (金太郎), "Golden Boy", a Japanese fairy tale
  • Momotaro (桃太郎), "Peach Boy", a Japanese fairy tale
  • Urashima Tarō (浦島 太郎), Japanese fairy tale
  • Nokotarou, the Japanese name of Koops from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

• Taro may refer to the following places:
  • Taro River in northern Italy
  • Taro (département) a former département of the First French Empire in present Italy, named after the Taro River
  • Tarō-chō (田老町), former town in Shimohei District, Iwate Prefecture, Japan (now part of Miyako)
  • Taro Island and Taro, Solomon Islands, its main town, which is the provincial capital of Choiseul Province, in the Solomon Islands
  • A small village in western Dominica, spelt Tarou.

• Volkswagen sold the Toyota Hilux in Europe rebadged as the Volkswagen Taro.