Ota
Appearance
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Ōta, Ota, or Ohta may refer to the following:
People
[edit]- Ota (wife of Arnulf of Carinthia), Queen of the East Franks 888-899, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire 896-899
- Ota (cartoonist), Brazilian cartoonist
- Atsuya Ota, Japanese basketball player
- Fusae Ohta, Japanese politician
- Herb Ohta, Hawaiian ukulele player
- Hikari Ōta, manzai comedian
- Hiromi Ōta, Japanese female singer who was considered an idol in Japan during the 1970s
- Keibun Ōta, Japanese painter and illustrator
- Kiyoto Ota (太田 清人, born 1948), Japanese-Mexican sculptor
- Michihiko Ohta, Japanese singer, composer and arranger
- Minoru Ōta (1891–1945), Japanese admiral in World War II
- Miwa Ota (太田 美和, born 1968), Japanese cross-country skier
- Mizuho Ōta (1876–1955), poet and scholar
- Nanami Ohta, Japanese actress
- Nobuko Ota (太田 信子, born 1969), Japanese rower
- Princess Ōta (7th century AD), the eldest daughter of emperor Tenji
- Ryu Ota (1930–2009), Japanese New Left activist, author, and ecologist
- Shinichi Ota (太田 真一, born 1975), Japanese cyclist
- Shinichiro Ohta, Japanese voice actor and television announcer known for the Iron Chef series
- Shunsuke Ota (大田 隼輔, born 1994), Japanese footballer
- Shusuke Ota (太田 修介, born 1996), Japanese footballer
- Ōta Sukemoto (1799–1867), daimyō of Edo period
- Takako Ōta (born 1967), Japanese voice actress
- Takuya Ōta (太田 拓弥, born 1970), Japanese sport wrestler
- Tetsuharu Ōta, Japanese voice actor
- Tomio Ota (太田 富夫, born 1936), Japanese triple jumper
- Tomoko Ohta (1933– ), Japanese molecular evolution scientist
- Toshio Ōta (1919–1942), Japanese fighter pilot
- Toshi Seeger (1922–2013), née Toshi Aline Ohta
- Yukina Ota, Japanese figure skater
- Yuki Ota, Olympic fencer
Geography
[edit]Japan
[edit]- Ōta, Tokyo (大田, 東京), a Special Ward of the Japanese capital city
- Ōta, Gunma (太田, 群馬), a city northwest of Tokyo in the Gunma prefecture
- Ōta River (太田川), the major river in the Hiroshima prefecture
Other places
[edit]- Okhta River (Neva basin), a river in Russia
- Ota (Alenquer), a town and a parish in the municipality of Alenquer, near Lisbon, Portugal
- Ota, Corse-du-Sud, a municipality in south Corsica, France
- Ota, Ogun, a city in Ogun State, Nigeria
- Ota Airport, Portugal
Companies
[edit]- Ohta Jidosha, one of the largest Japanese automotive manufacturing companies in the 1930s
- Ohta Publishing, Japanese publishing company
- OHTA, for Organ Historical Trust of Australia
- Ota (restaurant), a sushi counter in Omaha, Nebraska
Fictional characters
[edit]- Akihiko Ohta, the owner of a grocery store in the Muteki Kanban Musume manga series
- Isao Ohta, a police pilot in the Patlabor anime and manga franchise
- Ota Matsushita, a character in AI: The Somnium Files
Other uses
[edit]- 5868 Ohta, a main-belt asteroid