Wada

Wada can refer to:

People

Japanese surname

Wada (和田) is a Japanese family name. The following persons are of Japanese ancestry:

• Wada Ei (1857-1929) textile worker and memoirist during the Meiji Era
• Wada Koremasa (1536–1571), retainer during the Sengoku Period
• Wada Nei (1787-1840), mathematician of the Edo Period
• Wada Yoshimori (1147-1213), samurai of the Kamakura Period
• Akiko Wada (born 1950), singer
• Ayaka Wada (born 1994), singer, member and leader of girl group S/mileage
• Ben Wada (1930-2011), TV producer
• Eiiti Wada (born 1931), computer science professor
• Emi Wada (born 1937), costume designer
• George Wada (born 1978), anime producer
• Hiroo Wada, politician
• Juhn Atsushi Wada (born 1924), Japanese-Canadian neurologist
• Jujiro Wada (ca. 1872-1937), adventurer and entrepreneur
• Jun Wada (born 1973), footballer
• Kaoru Wada (born 1962), singer and composer
• Kikuo Wada (born 1951), wrestler
• Kazuhiro Wada (born 1972), baseball player
• Kōji Wada (born 1974), singer and songwriter
• Makoto Wada (born 1936), graphic designer, illustrator, essayist, and film director
• Marie Wada (born 1987), volleyball player
• Masahiro Wada (born 1965), footballer
• Masamune Wada (born 1974)), politician and TV announcer
• Masato Wada (born 1979), actor and singer
• Minoru Wada, Japanese American World War II hero
• Sanzo Wada (1883–1967), painter and costume designer
• Shinji Wada (1950-2011), manga artist
• Shizuo Wada, musician
• Shoko Wada (born 1952), handball player
• Takahiro Wada (born 1971), wrestler
• Takao Wada (born 1953), racing driver
• Takeo Wada (1882–1944), mathematician
• Takumi Wada (born 1981), footballer
• Takuya Wada (born 1990), footballer
• Tet Wada (born 1973), actor
• Tsuyoshi Wada (born 1981), baseball player
• Yasuhiro Wada (Honda) (born 1951), executive (General Manager of Honda Motor Motorsports Division)
• Yoichi Wada (born 1959), executive (CEO of Square Enix)
• Yoshi Wada (born 1943), sound installation artist and musician
• Yoshie Wada (1906-1977), novelist and critic
• Yoshihiko Wada (born 1940), artist
• Yutaka Wada (born 1962), baseball player and manager
• Yuzo Wada (born 1980), footballer

Surnames of other origin

• Inuwa Wada (born 1917), Nigerian politician
• Mian Wada (died 1085), Islamic scholar born in what is now Pakistan
• Tawar Umbi Wada (1957–2010), Nigerian politician

Japanese towns

• Wada, Chiba
• Wada, Nagano

Japanese railway stations

• Nishi-Wada Station, a railway station in Hokkaido, Japan
• Wada-shuku, a railway station in Nagawa, Japan
• Wada Station, a railway station in Akita, Japan
• Wakasa-Wada Station, a railway station in Fukui Prefecture, Japan

Other

• Wada (house), a type of mansion in Western India
• Vada, Palghar, Maharashtra, India, an administrative division
• WOHS, a radio station in North Carolina, United States, formerly had call sign WADA
• WADA-LD, a television station in North Carolina, United States
• E. Y. Wada, New York-based fashion label co-founded by Shuji Wada
• Lakes of Wada in mathematics
  • including the Wada property and Wada basins
• Wada as a ruler of Hälsingland, as described in the Anglo-Saxon poem Widsmith
• Wada (ethnic group), a Sudanese ethnic minority
• Wada test, a test used to establish which cerebral functions are localised to which brain hemisphere
• World Anti-Doping Agency
• Wada or waada, another name for the seepweed or Suaeda plant
• Wada, an alternative spelling for Vada (food), a type of Indian fried snack
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