Kudo

For the animal, see Kudu.

Kudo or KUDO may refer to:

• KOAN (AM), a radio station (1080 AM) in Anchorage, Alaska, United States, which held the call sign KUDO from 2002 to 2013
• A competition form of full contact karate

People

Kudō (工藤; Kudo, Kudoh, Kudou) is a Japanese family name.

• Chū Kudō (born Tetsusaburō Kudō, 1882–1965), Japanese-born Manchukuo politician and soldier
• Elaine Kudo, ballet dancer
• Haruka Kudo (singer) (born 1999), Japanese pop singer and member of Morning Musume.
• Haruka Kudō (voice actress) (born 1989), Japanese voice actor and model
• Hitomi Kudo (born 1969), Japanese actress and former AV idol
• Kazuyoshi Kudo (c. 1937–2007), Japanese yakuza
• Kimiyasu Kudoh (born 1963), Japanese baseball player
• Mai Kudō (born 1984), Japanese singer
• Megumi Kudo (born 1969), Japanese professional wrestler
• Minako Kudo (1967–2005), better known as Minako Honda, Japanese pop singer
• Shizuka Kudō (born 1970), Japanese pop singer and former member of Onyanko Club
• Tetsumi Kudo (1935–1990), Japanese artist
• Tori Kudo, Japanese musician and founder of Maher Shalal Hash Baz
• Youki Kudoh (born 1971), Japanese actress and singer
• Kudo (wrestler), Japanese professional wrestler

Fictional characters

• Yusaku Kudo, character in the manga series Case Closed
• Gals!#Harue Kudou, character in the manga series Gals!
• Himiko Kudou, character in the manga series GetBackers
• Jimmy Kudo (or Shinichi Kudo), protagonist of the manga series Case Closed
• Kanae Kudō, character in the visual novel De Capo
• Rei Kudou, character in the Arisa manga series
• Shin Kudo, protagonist of the anime Macross Zero
• Taiki Kudō, protagonist the anime series Digimon Xros Wars
• Yukiko Kudo, character in the manga series Case Closed
• Yohji Kudou, character in the Weiß Kreuz fictional universe
• Yuichi Kudo, character in the Doki Doki School Hours anime and manga series

See also

• Kudos (disambiguation)