# Taku

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'''Taku''' may refer to:

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==Places==
===North America===
* the [Taku River](/source/Taku_River), in Alaska and British Columbia
** Fort Taku, also known as [Fort Durham](/source/Fort_Durham) and as Taku, a former fort of the Hudson's Bay Company near the mouth of the Taku River
** the [Taku Glacier](/source/Taku_Glacier), in Alaska near Juneau
** [Taku Towers](/source/Taku_Towers), in Alaska, near Juneau
** [Taku Harbor](/source/Taku_Harbor), in Alaska, near Juneau
** [Taku Inlet](/source/Taku_Inlet), in Alaska
** the [Taku Plateau](/source/Taku_Plateau), in British Columbia
* [Taku Arm](/source/Taku_Arm) of Tagish Lake in British Columbia
** [Taku, British Columbia](/source/Taku%2C_British_Columbia), a locality on Tagish Lake

===Asia===
* [Taku Forts](/source/Taku_Forts), forts on the south bank of the Hai He, in Tanggu District, Tianjin municipality, in northeastern China
* [Taku, Saga](/source/Taku%2C_Saga), a city in Saga prefecture on the island of Kyūshū, Japan
* [Taku, India](/source/Taku%2C_India), a town in India

== Oceania ==
* [Taku, Kiribati](/source/Taku%2C_Kiribati), a village in Kiribati.

==Peoples==
* The [Taku people](/source/Taku_people), an Alaska Native group, who are a ''kwaan'' or tribe of the Tlingit
*[Taku River Tlingit First Nation](/source/Taku_River_Tlingit_First_Nation), government in British Columbia

==People==

=== Surname ===
* [Moses Taku](/source/Moses_Taku), a rabbi, 13th-century Tosafist from Bohemia
* [Afrim Taku](/source/Afrim_Taku) (born 1989), an Albanian soccer player
* [Akwo Tarh Ayuk Taku](/source/Akwo_Tarh_Ayuk_Taku) (born 1992), Cameroonian soccer player

=== Nickname ===
*[Ta-ku](/source/Ta-ku), an Australian musician
*Taku, a nickname for [Takuma Sato](/source/Takuma_Sato)
*Taku, a nickname for people named Takudzwa, Takura or Takunda in the [Shona language](/source/Shona_language)

=== Given name ===
"Taku" is a Japanese male given name.
*{{Nihongo|[Taku Akahoshi](/source/Taku_Akahoshi)|赤星 拓||born 1984}}, Japanese footballer
*{{Nihongo|[Taku Hiraoka](/source/Taku_Hiraoka)|平岡 卓||born 1995}}, Japanese snowboarder
*{{Nihongo|[Taku Morinaga](/source/Taku_Morinaga)|森永 卓||born 1995}}, Japanese footballer
*{{Nihongo|[Taku Hirano](/source/Taku_Hirano)|平野 琢也||born 1973}}, Japanese recording artist and percussionist for [Fleetwood Mac](/source/Fleetwood_Mac)
*{{Nihongo|[Taku Kishimoto](/source/Taku_Kishimoto)|岸本卓||born 1975}}, Japanese screenwriter
*[Taku Lee](/source/Taku_Lee) (born 1995), Japanese gridiron football player
*[Taku Morishita](/source/Taku_Morishita) (born 1966), Japanese shogi player
*{{Nihongo|[Taku Nakanishi](/source/Taku_Nakanishi)|中西 拓||born 1972}}, Japanese freestyle skier
*{{Nihongo|[Taku Saito](/source/Taku_Saito)|斎藤 卓||born 1979}}, Japanese basketball coach
*[Taku Sugimoto](/source/Taku_Sugimoto), (born 1965), Japanese guitarist
*[Taku Takahashi](/source/Taku_Takahashi) (born 1974), one half of the hip-hop duo M-Flo
*{{Nihongo|[Taku Ushinohama](/source/Taku_Ushinohama)|牛之濵 拓||born 1992}}, Japanese footballer
*{{Nihongo|[Taku Watanabe](/source/Taku_Watanabe)|渡辺 卓||born 1971}}, Japanese footballer
*{{Nihongo|[Taku Yamamoto](/source/Taku_Yamamoto)|山本 拓||born 1952}}, Japanese politician

===Characters===
*[Taku](/source/Taku_(comics)), husband of [Marvel Comics](/source/Marvel_Comics) superhero [Venomm](/source/Venomm) from ''[Black Panther](/source/Black_Panther_(character))'' comics

==Transportation==
* [HMS ''Taku'' (1900)](/source/HMS_Taku_(1900)), the former German-built (at [Schichau-Werke](/source/Schichau-Werke) in 1898) Chinese destroyer ''Hai Lung'' captured by the British Navy at the [Battle of Taku Forts](/source/Battle_of_Taku_Forts_(1900)) on 17 June 1900 and added to the British Navy; she was sold in October 1916 to be scrapped
* [HMS ''Taku'' (N38)](/source/HMS_Taku_(N38)), a 1939 British T class submarine
* [MV ''Taku''](/source/MV_Taku), a 1963 vessel for the Alaska Marine Highway System
* [USC&GS ''Taku''](/source/USC%26GS_Taku), an 1898 United States Coast Guard and Geodetic Survey ship
* [Taku Station](/source/Taku_Station), a railway station in Taku, Saga, Japan

==Animals==
* [Taku (whale)](/source/Taku_(whale)), an Orca (killer whale) that once lived at SeaWorld
* The Fijian name for the [Hawksbill turtle](/source/Hawksbill_turtle)

==Other uses==
* [Battle of Taku Forts (disambiguation)](/source/Battle_of_Taku_Forts_(disambiguation)), several battles in China
* [Takuu language](/source/Takuu_language) or "Taku", a Polynesian language (ISO 639-3:nho)
* [9574 Taku](/source/9574_Taku), an asteroid

==See also==
* [Naka-Taku Station](/source/Naka-Taku_Station), a railway station in Taku, Saga, Japan
* [Higashi-Taku Station](/source/Higashi-Taku_Station), a railway station in Taku, Saga, Japan
* [Takou, Burkina Faso](/source/Takou%2C_Burkina_Faso), a village
* [Takuu Atoll](/source/Takuu_Atoll), sometimes written as "''Takū''"
* {{look from|Taku}}

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Category:Masculine given names

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