Kenta

Kenta (Japanese: 廉侍) is a masculine Japanese given name. (written: 健太, 建太, 研太, 賢太 or ケンタ in katakana).

Notable people with the name include:

• Kenta Abe (阿部 健太; born 1984), Japanese baseball player
• Kenta Fukasaku (深作 健太; born 1972), Japanese film director
• Kenta Hayashi (林 健太; born 1994), Japanese kickboxer
• Kenta Kataoka (片岡健太; born 1985);Japanese musician and lead vocalist for rock band sumika (band)
• Kenta Kobashi (小橋 建太; born 1967), Japanese professional wrestler
• Kenta Kobayashi (小林 健太; born 1981), Japanese professional wrestler
• Kenta Hasegawa (長谷川 健太; born 1965), Japanese football manager
• Kenta Ito (伊藤 研太; born 1999), Japanese footballer
• Kenta Izuka (猪塚 健太; born 1986), Japanese actor and television personality
• Kenta Maeda (前田 健太; born 1988), Japanese baseball player
• Kenta Matsudaira (松平 健太; born 1991), Japanese table tennis player
• Kenta Miyake (三宅 健太; born 1977), Japanese voice actor
• Kenta Miyawaki (宮脇 健太; born 2001), Japanese footballer
• Kenta Nagasawa (長澤 憲大; born 1993), Japanese judoka
• Kenta Nishizawa (西澤 健太; born 1996), Japanese footballer
• Kenta Shimaoka (島岡 健太; born 1973), Japanese footballer
• Kenta Shimizu (清水 健太; born 1981), Japanese footballer
• Kenta Takanashi (高梨 健太; born 1997), Japanese volleyball player
• Kenta Tanaka (田中 健太; born 1988), Japanese field hockey player
• Kenta Yamazaki (山崎 健太; born 1987), Japanese footballer
• Kenta Yoshikawa (吉川 健太; born 1986), Japanese footballer

Fictional characters

• Kenta (Black Mask) (ケンタ) in Hikari Sentai Maskman
• Kenta (ケンタ) in Ani-Yoko
• Kenta Date (a.k.a. MegaRed) (伊達 健太) in Denji Sentai Megaranger
• Kenta Kitagawa (北川 健太) in Digimon Tamers
• Kenta Yumiya (湯宮 健太) in Beyblade: Metal Fusion
• Kenta, civilian name of Lung, a villain in the web publication Worm

See also

• Kentarō
• Tarō (given name)

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