The Taira clan was a major Japanese clan of samurai.
Taira may also refer to: People with the surname Afonso Taira, Portuguese footballer , Japanese actress , Japanese samurai Akira Taira (born 1994), Argentine footballer who plays as a defender , the last living member of the Taira clan , Japanese weightlifter , Japanese racing driver , Japanese samurai of the Taira clan , Japanese baseball player , waka poet and Japanese nobleman , Japanese baseball player , Japanese military leader and kugyō , Japanese politician , Japanese rugby union player , one of the Taira clan's commanders and military lord Linda Taira, American journalist and consultant from Hawai , Japanese politician , Gojū Ryū practitioner , Heian period provincial magnate and samurai , Taira clan's chief commanders in the Genpei War Nancy Taira, Mexican actress , Japanese commander during the Genpei War , Japanese military leader of the late Heian period of Japan Robert Taira, (1923–2003) the founder of King's Hawaiian bakery , Japanese samurai of the Taira clan , Japanese governor and samurai commander , Japanese football player , the Taira Clan's chief commanders , the eldest regent of the Taira clan patriarch, Taira no Kiyomori was a Japanese martial artist , Japanese actor , the head of the Taira clan , Japanese poet and military leader , Japanese samurai lord and gōzoku , a member of the ruling Taira clan , a former member of the Imperial Family demoted to nobility of the Heian period Takunori Taira, Japanese engineer , Japanese professional mixed martial artist , Japanese aristocrat from the Heian period , Empress consort of Emperor Takakura , Japanese actress , one of the Taira Clan's chief commanders in the Genpei War , Japanese textile artist , the 3rd son of Taira no Tadamori and a younger half-brother of Taira no Kiyomori , Japanese actress , Japanese samurai and military lord Yoshihisa Taira, composer , Japanese actress José Taira (born 1968), Portuguese former footballer
People with the given name or nickname , Japanese former infielder , Japanese manga artist and tarento , Japanese mathematician , Japanese actor , Japanese footballer , Japanese football player Yuliia "Taira" Paievska (born 1968) Ukrainian medic Taira Uematsu (born 1983), Japanese coach for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball
Places Taira, the center of Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan Taira Dam (平ダム) a dam in the Nagano Prefecture, Japan Taira Station (多比良駅) a passenger railway station Taira Ski Area (たいらスキー場) a skiing venue located in Nanto Taira, Toyama, a village in Toyama prefecture, Japan
Other uses Taira (spider), a genus of spiders
See also Tayra (Eira barbara), a neotropical Mustelidae Tiara (disambiguation)