Taira (disambiguation)
Taira means:
- a genus of the dark spiders (Amaurobiidae): Taira (genus)
- a city in Fukushima Prefecture: Taira (Iwaki) (today: Iwaki )
- a fiefdom residing in this one: Iwaki-Taira
- a Japanese noble family: Taira
- Taira no Kiyomori (1118–1181), late Heian general in Japan
- Taira no Shigehira (1158–1185), commander in chief of the Taira clan in Japan
- Taira no Tadanori (1144–1184), general in the Genpei War in Japan
- Taira no Tomomori (1152–1185), clan leader and commander of the Taira in the Gempei War in Japan
Taira is a family name for the following people:
- Satoshi Taira (* 1970), Japanese football player
- Taira Shinken (1898–1970), Japanese master of Kobudo
- Tadahiko Taira (* 1956), Japanese motorcycle racer
- Tomi Taira († 2015), Japanese actress
- Tomohiro Taira (* 1990), Japanese football player
- Tomoyuki Taira (* 1959), Japanese politician
- Taira Toshiko (* 1921), Japanese artisan and living national treasure
- Yoshihisa Taira (1937–2005), Japanese-French composer
See also:
