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)