Okada

Okada (written: 岡田 literally "hill rice-paddy") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the name include:

• Beisanjin Okada (岡田 米山人, 1744–1820), Japanese painter
• Doris Okada Matsui, American politician of the Democratic Party
• Hankō Okada (岡田 半江, 1782–1846), Japanese painter in the Edo period
• Harumitsu Okada (岡田 晴光, born 1960), Japanese cyclist
• Izō Okada, Japanese samurai and assassin
• John Okada, Japanese-American writer
• Junichi Okada, Japanese singer and actor
• Junko Okada, Japanese voice actress
• Katsuya Okada, former Democratic Party of Japan president and foreign minister of Japan
• Kazuchika Okada, Japanese professional wrestler
• Kazuo Okada, Japanese businessman and billionaire, the biggest project of whom is Okada Manilla (see below)
• Keisuke Okada, 31st Prime Minister of Japan
• Kōyō Okada (岡田 紅陽, 1895–1972), Japanese photographer
• Mari Okada, Japanese screenwriter
• Masaki Okada, Japanese actor
• Masumi Okada, Japanese-Danish actor
• Mokichi Okada, founder of the Church of World Messianity
• Rana Okada (岡田 良菜, born 1991), Japanese snowboarder
• Saburōsuke Okada (岡田 三郎助, 1869–1939), Japanese painter
• Satoru Okada, general manager of Nintendo Research & Engineering
• Shigetaka Okada (岡田 重孝), Japanese Samurai
• Shinichirō Okada (岡田 信一郎, 1883–1932), Japanese architect
• Shoken Okada (岡田 昌憲, born 1947), Japanese slalom canoeist
• Tadahiko Okada (1878–1958), Japanese politician
• Tadayuki Okada, former Grand Prix motorcycle racing and Superbike racing motorcycle racer
• Takeshi Okada, coach of the Japanese national football team
• Tasuku Okada (岡田 資, 1890–1949), Japanese general
• Tokihiko Okada, a silent Japanese actor
• Tomohiro Okada, Japanese new media art and design curator, thinker of creative economics
• Toshio Okada, founder of the anime company Gainax
• Yaichiro Okada, Japanese zoologist
• Yoshiko Okada, Japanese actress
• Yuki Okada (岡田 佑樹, born 1983), Japanese footballer
• Yuki Okada (岡田 優希, born 1996), Japanese footballer
• Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol

Other uses

• Okada Domain, a Japanese domain in the Edo period
• Okada Station (Ehime), a railway station in Ehime, Japan
• Okada Station (Kagawa), a railway station in Kagawa, Japan
• Okada Museum of Art, an art museum in Kanagawa, Japan
• Okada Manila, a casino resort and hotel complex in Parañaque City, Metro Manila which is the biggest project of Kazuo Okada (see above)
• Okada (motorcycle taxi), a motorcycle taxi used in western Africa
• Okada Air, a now defunct airline in Nigeria