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Tetsuo Nishimoto

Tetsuo Nishimoto (西本 哲雄), born 1950 in Hiroshima, is a Japanese volleyball player who won gold in men's volleyball at the 1972 Munich Olympics, placed fourth in 1976, and took 1974 world bronze.

Tetsuo Sato

Tetsuo Sato (佐藤哲夫), Japanese volleyball player (1949–2025) from Fukushima; Fujifilm left side who won Olympic silver at Mexico City 1968 and gold at München 1972, plus Asian Games golds in 1970 and 1974. Not the skier or politician of the same name.

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (鉄男)

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (鉄男) is Shinya Tsukamoto's 1989 Japanese black-and-white 16mm body horror feature debut, based on The Phantom of Regular Size, about a salaryman whose flesh turns to metal; it won the 1989 Rome Fantafestival Grand Prix.

Tetsuro Majima

Tetsuro Majima (真嶋 哲朗) is a Japanese photochemist and radiation chemist who spent most of his career at Osaka University, known for work on long-range charge transfer through DNA.

Tetsuryō! Meet with Tetsudō Musume

Tetsuryō! Meet with Tetsudō Musume (てつりょー!meet with 鉄道むすめ) is a 2026 original TV anime from TOMYTEC's Tetsudō Musume franchise, following the Tetsuryōkai university railway-travel club, produced by East Fish Studio, airing from October 8, 2026.

Tetsuto Yamada

Tetsuto Yamada (山田 哲人), born 1992, is a Tokyo Yakult Swallows infielder in NPB. He won baseball gold at Tokyo 2020, hitting .350, and was named WBSC All-Olympic Team MVP; also played in the 2017 and 2023 World Baseball Classics.

Tetsuya Higashiyama

Tetsuya Higashiyama is a Japanese plant developmental biologist and University of Tokyo professor known for identifying the LURE peptides that guide pollen tubes to the ovule.

Tetsuya Iizuka

Tetsuya Iizuka (飯塚 哲哉) is a Japanese engineer, founder and CEO of the fabless semiconductor company THine Electronics since 1991, known for establishing the V-by-One HS interface used in high-definition televisions.

Tetsuya Kakihara (柿原 徹也)

Tetsuya Kakihara (柿原徹也), born 1982 in Düsseldorf, West Germany, is a Japanese voice actor and Kiramune singer; known for Natsu Dragneel in Fairy Tail, Simon in Gurren Lagann, Garma Zabi in Gundam THE ORIGIN, and Best Rookie Actor at the 1st Seiyu Awards; founded agency Zynchro in 2014.

Tetsuya Komuro

Tetsuya Komuro (小室哲哉) is a Japanese musician and producer from Tokyo, born in 1958, whose productions for trf, globe, and Namie Amuro dominated 1990s J-pop charts.

Tetsuya Naito (内藤 哲也)

Tetsuya Naito (内藤 哲也), born 1982, Japanese pro wrestler; NJPW debut 2006, leader of Los Ingobernables de Japón, 'tranquilo' persona, two-time G1 Climax winner, IWGP double champion; left NJPW in 2025 for Pro Wrestling NOAH, GHC Heavyweight and Tag Team Champion.

Tetsuya Nomura (野村 哲也)

Tetsuya Nomura (野村 哲也, born 1970) is a Japanese video game character designer and director at Square Enix who designed Cloud Strife, Squall Leonhart, Yuna, and Sora.

Tetsuya Taga

Tetsuya Taga (田賀 哲也) is a Japanese stem cell biologist and professor at the Institute of Science Tokyo, known for identifying gp130 as the interleukin-6 signal transducer in 1989.

Tetsuya Takahashi

Tetsuya Takahashi (高橋哲哉) is a Japanese video game director who co-founded Monolith Soft in Tokyo in 1999 and created the Xeno series, including Xenogears and Xenoblade Chronicles.

Tetsuya Yamagami (山上徹也)

Tetsuya Yamagami (山上徹也, born 1980) is the Japanese man convicted of assassinating former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with a homemade gun in Nara on 8 July 2022; sentenced to life in prison in January 2026, he has appealed.

Tette

Tette, also rendered Titti, was a 14th-century BC king of Nuḫašše in inland Syria, installed as a Hittite vassal by Šuppiluliuma I and later deposed.

Tettigoniidae

Tettigoniidae (katydids, bush crickets) is the largest Orthoptera family, over 7,200 species in superfamily Tettigonioidea, Ensifera; known for leaf-like crypsis, acoustic signaling, late Jurassic origin, and widespread paraphyletic subfamilies.

Tettu Facula

Tettu Facula, a bright facula on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, 189 km wide at 37.60N 160.96W; IAU-approved 1985, named for an Egyptian town where Hatmenit and Osiris were worshipped.

Tetyana Berezhna

Tetyana Berezhna is a Ukrainian lawyer and civil servant who has served as Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Policy and Minister of Culture since 2025.

Tetzcotzinco

Tetzcotzinco (Tetzcotzingo, Texcotzingo), the 'baths of Nezahualcóyotl', an Aztec hilltop archaeological site near Texcoco, Mexico, with aqueducts, reservoirs, royal baths, and terraced gardens built for the Texcoco king.

Teuchitlan

Teuchitlán (Guachimontones), Jalisco, Mexico: pre-Columbian archaeological site and type site of the Teuchitlán tradition (350 BC-500 AD), known for circular stepped-cone pyramids, a 111 m ball court, and shaft tombs.

Teucrium

Teucrium (germander), Lamiaceae genus published by Linnaeus in 1753; about 250–300 species, cosmopolitan with Mediterranean center of diversity, 1-lipped corolla, neo-clerodane diterpenoids, paraphyletic without Teucridium, Spartothamnella, Oncinocalyx.

Teucrium chamaedrys

Teucrium chamaedrys (wall germander), Lamiaceae subshrub native to Europe to Iran, used in folk medicine and as a slimming remedy; its diterpenoid teucrin A causes documented hepatitis.

Teucrium polium

Teucrium polium (mountain germander), Lamiaceae medicinal plant of the Mediterranean and Middle East, used for diabetes and lipids; documented cause of hepatitis, liver failure, and kidney toxicity.

Teucrium scorodonia

Teucrium scorodonia, known as wood sage or woodland germander, is a perennial subshrub in the mint family native to Europe, Madeira, and Tunisia, despite not being a true sage.

Teufelsberg

Teufelsberg (Devil's Mountain) is a 120.1 m artificial rubble hill in Berlin's Grunewald, built over a Nazi military academy shell, topped by the NSA/GCHQ Field Station listening post (1962-1992), now a street art gallery and visitor site.

Teukolsky equation

The Teukolsky equation is a separable wave equation, derived by Saul Teukolsky in 1972, governing gravitational and electromagnetic perturbations of a rotating Kerr black hole.

Teuku Umar

Teuku Umar (1854–1899) was an Acehnese military leader who fought the Dutch in the Aceh War, feigned collaboration to seize their weapons, and died at Meulaboh in 1899.

Teumessos

Teumessos (Τευμησσός) was an ancient settlement in Boeotia, central Greece, on the highway between Thebes and Chalcis, remembered for the Teumessian fox myth and for a statueless sanctuary of Athena.

Teumman

Te'umman was a Neo-Elamite king of the Hubanid dynasty who ruled Elam from 664 to 653 BC and died in battle against Ashurbanipal of Assyria.