Ota

Ōta, Ota, or Ohta may refer to the following:

People

As a mononym:

• Ota (wife of Arnulf of Carinthia) (c. 874–903), Queen Consort of the East Franks
• Ota (cartoonist) (1954–2021), Brazilian cartoonist

As a family name:

• Atsuya Ota (born 1984), Japanese basketball player
• Fusae Ohta (born 1951), Japanese LDP politician
• Herb Ohta (born 1934), Hawaiian ukulele player
• Hikari Ōta (born 1965), manzai comedian
• Hiromi Ōta (born 1955), Japanese singer and idol
• Jun'ya Ōta (太田 順也; born 1977), known by his penname ZUN, Japanese video game developer and composer
• Keibun Ōta (born 1951), Japanese painter and illustrator
• Kiyoto Ota (太田 清人; born 1948), Japanese-Mexican sculptor
• Michihiko Ohta (born 1964), 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 (born 1993), Japanese actress
• Nobuko Ota (太田 信子; born 1969), Japanese rower
• Princess Ōta (fl. 7th century), the eldest daughter of emperor Tenji
• Ryu Ota (1930–2009), Japanese New Left activist, author, and ecologist
• Seiichi Ota (1945–2024), Japanese politician
• Shinichi Ota (太田 真一; born 1975), Japanese cyclist
• Shinichiro Ohta (born 1971), Japanese voice actor and television announcer known for the Iron Chef series
• Shusuke Ota (太田 修介; born 1996), Japanese footballer
• Ōta Sukemoto (1799–1867), a daimyō and office holder during the Tokugawa shogunate
• Takako Ōta (born 1967), Japanese voice actress
• Takuya Ōta (太田 拓弥; born 1970), Japanese sport wrestler
• Tetsuharu Ōta (born 1980), Japanese voice actor
• Tomio Ota (太田 富夫; born 1936), Japanese triple jumper
• Tomoko Ohta (born 1933), Japanese molecular evolution scientist
• Toshi Seeger (1922–2013), née Toshi Aline Ohta, an American filmmaker and environmental activist
• Toshio Ōta (1919–1942), Japanese fighter pilot
• Yuki Ota (born 1985), Japanese Olympic fencer
• Yukina Ota (born 1986), Japanese figure skater

As a personal name:

• Ota Halama (born 1974), Czech historian of Christianity
• Ota Zaremba (1957–2026), Czech weightlifter and Olympian

Geography

Japan

• 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

• 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 State, a city in Nigeria
• Ota Airport, Portugal

Companies

• 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

• 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

• 5868 Ohta, a main-belt asteroid

See also

• OTA (disambiguation)
• Otta (disambiguation)
• Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA)