Real People
- Kazuo Aoki, Japanese government minister during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and into World War II
- Kazuo Chiba (born 1940), aikido
- Kazuo Harada (died 1998), anime producer, audio director, and sound effects director
- Kazuo Hirai (born 1964), 平井一夫, President/CEO of Sony Computer
- Kazuo Endo, Kobe Earthquake survivor
- Kazuo Hashimoto, late Japanese inventor of Caller ID and the telephone answering machine, including the ansafone.
- Kazuo Hiramatsu, accounting scholar, president of Kwansei Gakuin University
- Kazuo Hirotsu (1891–1968), Japanese novelist and literary critic active in the Showa period Japan
- Kazuo Ichinohe (born 1941), Japanese voice actor (stage name Shin Aomori)
- Kazuo Inamori (born 1932), Japanese businessman
- Kazuo Ishiguro (born 1954), 石黒一雄, British author
- Kazuo Kitagawa (born 1953), 北側一雄, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the Japanese Cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi
- Kazuo Koike (born 1936), 小池一夫, manga artist
- Kazuo Komizu (born 1946), Japanese film director
- Kazuo Kubokawa (1903–1943), 窪川一雄, astronomer
- Kazuo Matsui (born 1975), 松井稼頭央, baseball player
- Kazuo Misaki (born 1976), Japanese professional mixed martial arts fighter and former judoka
- Kazuo Miyagawa (1908–1999), 宮川一夫, cinematographer
- Kazuo Mizutani 水谷和夫, Chief of Staff of Japanese Imperial Guard during the close of World War II
- Kazuo Nakanishi (1922–2003), briefly the leader of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate in the chaotic years of the Yama-Ichi War
- Kazuo Ohno (1906–2010), Japanese dancer associated with Butoh
- Kazuo Oka (born 1948), Japanese voice actor
- Kazuo Sakamaki (1918–1999), 酒巻和男, first prisoner of war held by USA in World War II
- Kazuo Sakurada (born 1948), known as Mr. Sakurada) retired Japanese professional wrestler.
- Kazuo Taoka (1913–1981), 田岡一雄, Godfather of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate
- Kazuo Umezu (born 1936), 楳図かずお, horror manga author
- Kazuo Watanabe (born 1955), 渡辺和郎, astronomer
- Kazuo Yamada (1912–1991), Japanese conductor
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