Sadako

Sadako is a Japanese name, commonly used for women. The same name can be written with a variety of kanji, and the meanings of the name differ accordingly:

• 貞子, "chaste child"; the same characters can also be read as a Korean female given name, Jeong-ja
• 節子, "child of integrity"

People with the name

• Fujiwara no Teishi (藤原 定子, 977–1001), empress consort of the Japanese Emperor Ichijō.
• Princess Sadako Kujō (九条 節子), later Empress Teimei (貞明皇后) of Japan (1884–1951), wife of Emperor Taishō
• Sadako Kurihara (栗原 貞子, 1913–2005), Japanese poet
• Sadako Moriguchi (森口 貞子, 1907–2002), American businesswoman
• Sadako Ogata (緒方 貞子, 1927–2019), Japanese scholar and United Nations administrator
• Sadako Pointer (born 1984), American singer
• Sadako Sasaki (佐々木 禎子, 1943–1955), a childhood Hiroshima atomic bomb victim, who made origami cranes based on a legend about their healing properties, making them an international symbol for peace.
• Sadako Sawamura (沢村 貞子, 1908–1996), Japanese actress
• Toyotomi Sadako (豊臣 完子, 1592–1658), Japanese noble woman
• Sadako Yamamoto (山本 定子, born 1915), Japanese javelin thrower
• Sadako Yamashita (山下 貞子, born 1932), Japanese swimmer

Entertainment

• Sadako Yamamura (山村 貞子), fictional character in the Japanese novel, manga and film franchise Ring
• Sadako (film), 2019 film in the Ring franchise