Cătălin Țăranu (Romanian: [kətəˈlin tsəˈranu]; Japanese: タラヌ・カタリン, romanized: Taranu Katarin; born March 31, 1973) is a Romanian professional player of the board game of Go, one of the very few from outside Asia.

Țăranu started learning Go from Cristian Cobeli in 1989, at the age of 16.

He quickly joined the Nagoya branch of the Nihon Ki-in and became an insei.

After two years, he became the second European (after Manfred Wimmer from Austria in 1978) to pass the professional examination.

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