# Isao

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**Isao** (いさお, イサオ) is a masculine [Japanese given name](/source/Japanese_given_name) which was popular during the [Shōwa period](/source/Sh%C5%8Dwa_period) (1926–1989).

## Written forms

Isao can be written using different [kanji](/source/Kanji) characters and can mean:

- 功, "achievement"
- 勲, "meritorious"
- 績, "exploits"
- 公, "public"
- 勇男, "brave, man"
- 勇夫, "brave, man"
- 勇雄, "brave, masculine"
- 伊佐夫
- 伊佐雄
- 伊三男

The name can also be written in [hiragana](/source/Hiragana) or [katakana](/source/Katakana).

## People with the name

- [Isao Abe](/source/Isao_Abe) (阿部 功, 1912–1980), Japanese hammer thrower
- [Isao Aoki](/source/Isao_Aoki) (功, born 1942), Japanese professional golfer
- [Isao Asai](/source/Isao_Asai) (浅井 功, born 1942), Japanese ice hockey player
- [Isao Harimoto](/source/Isao_Harimoto) (勲, born 1940), Zainichi Korean professional baseball player
- [Isao Hashizume](/source/Isao_Hashizume) (功, born 1941), Japanese actor
- [Isao Hayashi](/source/Isao_Hayashi) (林 伊佐緒, 1912–1995), Japanese singer and composer
- [Isao Homma](/source/Isao_Homma) (born 1981), Japanese footballer who plays for Albirex Niigata
- [Isao Inokuma](/source/Isao_Inokuma) (功, 1938–2001), Japanese judoka
- [Isao Iwabuchi](/source/Isao_Iwabuchi) (born 1933), Japanese Olympic football player
- [Isao Kakihara](/source/Isao_Kakihara) (垣原 功, born 1944), Japanese ice hockey player
- [Isao Kawabuchi](/source/Isao_Kawabuchi) (河淵 勲, born 1936), Japanese ice hockey player
- [Isao Kikuchi](/source/Isao_Kikuchi) (born 1921), American graphic designer, painter, carver, illustrator
- [Isao Kimura](/source/Isao_Kimura) (功, 1923–1981), Japanese actor
- [Isao Kubota](/source/Isao_Kubota) (born 1983), Japanese footballer who plays for Samut Songkhram
- [Isao Kuraishi](/source/Isao_Kuraishi) (倉石 功, born 1944), Japanese actor
- [Isao Matsumiya](/source/Isao_Matsumiya), Japanese politician
- [Isao Matsuoka](/source/Isao_Matsuoka) (功, born 1934), Chairman of Toho
- [Isao Morishita](/source/Isao_Morishita) (森下 勲), Japanese motorcycle racer
- [Isao Nakajima](/source/Isao_Nakajima) (中島 功, born 1941), Japanese swimmer
- [Isao Nakauchi](/source/Isao_Nakauchi) (功, 1922–2005), founder of Daiei
- [Isao Obata](/source/Isao_Obata) (1904–1976), pioneering Japanese master of Shotokan karate
- [Isao Okano](/source/Isao_Okano) (功, born 1944), Japanese judoka
- [Isao Okawa](/source/Isao_Okawa) (功, 1926–2001), former Chairman of Sega
- [Isao Okazaki](/source/Isao_Okazaki) (功, 1920–2006), Japanese right-wing activist
- [Isao Ono](/source/Isao_Ono_(ice_hockey)) (小野 悳, born 1933), Japanese ice hockey player
- [Isao Sasaki](/source/Isao_Sasaki), (功, Japanese anime singer, actor, and voice actor
- [Isao Takagi](/source/Isao_Takagi) (高木 功, born 1961), Japanese professional wrestler
- [Isao Takahata](/source/Isao_Takahata) (勲, 1935–2018), Japanese anime director
- [Isao Tamagawa](/source/Isao_Tamagawa) (伊佐男, 1922–2004), Japanese actor
- [Isao Tomita](/source/Isao_Tomita) (勲, born 1932), Japanese electronic music composer
- [Isao Yamada](/source/Isao_Yamada) (山田 勇男, born 1952), Japanese film director
- [Isao Yamagata](/source/Isao_Yamagata) (1915–1996), Japanese film actor (fl. 1951 and 1984)
- [Isao Yamagishi](/source/Isao_Yamagishi) (山岸 勲, born 1966), Japanese diver
- [Isao Yoneda](/source/Isao_Yoneda) (功, born 1977), Japanese gymnast
- [Isao Yukisada](/source/Isao_Yukisada) (勲, born 1968), Japanese film director

## Fictional characters

- Isao, a character in the manga series *[How to Keep a Mummy](/source/How_to_Keep_a_Mummy)*
- [Isao Iinuma](/source/Isao_Iinuma), protagonist of the novel *Runaway Horses*
- [Isao Ohta](/source/Isao_Ohta) (功), a character in the anime and manga series *Mobile Police Patlabor*
- Kondo Isao, a character in the anime and manga series *[Gin Tama](/source/Gin_Tama)*

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