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 sprinter , Japanese printmaker , Japanese diplomat , Japanese boxer , Japanese philosopher and economist , Japanese politician , Japanese sport wrestler , Japanese sprinter , Japanese politician , Japanese general , Japanese ski jumper , Japanese ice hockey player , Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball outfielder Iwao Ojima (born 1945), Japanese-American chemist , Japanese recording engineer , Japanese field marshal , Japanese academic , Japanese-American animator, television producer and film director , Japanese malacologist , Japanese water polo player , Japanese police officer , Japanese footballer , Japanese photographer , Japanese lawyer, politician and cabinet minister
Fictional characters , a character in the manga series Kinnikuman