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), sumo wrestler
- *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
- *Taro Nakano, alleged yakuza member
- *Ukiyoe Taro (浮世絵 太郎), author
- *Urashima Taro (浦島 太郎), Japanese fairy tale
- Taro may refer to the following fictional characters:
- *Taro Hanaukyo of Hanaukyo Maid Team (Hanaukyo Maid Tai)
- *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.
- People or fictional characters with ~tarō (～太郎) as a name suffix include:
- *Shintaro Ishihara (石原 慎太郎), Tokyo, Japan's current governor
- *Kintaro (金太郎), "Golden Boy", a Japanese fairy tale
- *Momotaro (桃太郎), "Peach Boy", a Japanese fairy tale
- 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
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