People with the name include:

• Daisuke Nakata, trampolinist and former Sasuke competitor
• Hidetoshi Nakata, former Japanese football (soccer) player
• Hideo Nakata, Japanese film director
• Jōji Nakata, seiyū (voice actor)
• Kōji Nakata, Japanese football (soccer) player
• Yasutaka Nakata, producer and one-half of the Shibuya-kei style capsule (group)

There is also a Japanese train station in Tsugaru City, Aomori Prefecture with this name.

See also

• Nakada, using the same character 中田 in Japanese.