Kondo
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Kondō (近藤 "near wisteria") is a Japanese surname, and is sometimes used in other contexts.

People named Kondo:

• Koji Kondo, musician, composer
• Dorinne K. Kondo, anthropologist
• Ezekiel Kondo, Bishop, Diocese of Khartoum, Episcopal Church of the Sudan
• Jun Kondo, physicist, researcher of the Kondo effect
• Nobutake Kondo, naval commander
• Kondo Isami, chief of the Shinsengumi
• Kondo Keitaro, author, recipient of the Akutagawa Prize
• Junya Kondo, founder of Hatena Co., Ltd.
• Tomio Kondō, photographer of Sado island
• Tomoko Kondo, a member of the 80's J-Pop duo BaBe
• Yoshifumi Kondō, an animator and film director from Studio Ghibli.
• Yuki Kondo, mixed martial arts fighter.
• Kondo was the former name of Behanzin, King of Dahomey (now Benin), Africa

Other uses of Kondo:

• Kondō (lit. Golden Hall in Japanese [this Kondō is 金堂), is usually the main hall of a Buddhist temple, eg. in Hōryū-ji, Nara Prefecture
• In physics, the Kondo effect regards the presence of a magnetic impurity in a solid. It is named for Jun Kondo.
• Kondo can refer to the KHR-2HV robot.

See also

• Japanese name

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