Iwao Explained

Iwao (written: 巖, 巌, 岩夫, 岩尾, 岩生, 岩男 or 岩雄) is both a masculine Japanese given name and a Japanese surname. Notable people with the name include:

Surname

• Emma Haruka Iwao, Japanese computer scientist and cloud developer advocate
• , Japanese voice actress and singer
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese field hockey player
• , Japanese academic, historian and writer
• , Japanese psychologist, magazine editor and academic

Given name

• , Japanese cross-country skier
• , Japanese printmaker
• , Japanese diplomat
• , Japanese boxer
• , Japanese sport wrestler
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese general
• , Japanese ice hockey player
• , Japanese field marshal
• , Japanese academic
• Iwao Takamoto (1925–2007), Japanese-American animator, television producer and film director
• , Japanese police officer
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese photographer

Fictional characters

• , a character in the manga series Kinnikuman