Makoto Wada (和田誠, Wada Makoto) (10 April 1936 – 7 October 2019) was a Japanese illustrator, essayist, and film director.

[1] As an illustrator, Wada drew many cartoons and caricatures for Shinichi Hoshi and Haruki Murakami.

He designed more than 2,000 covers for the magazine Shūkan Bunshun from 1972 to 2017 and provided illustrations for the book review section of the Mainichi Shimbun from 1992 to 2018.

[2] Since 1972, Wada was married to Remi Hirano, the granddaughter of Henry Pike Bowie.

Their eldest son Sho is the guitarist and vocalist of Triceratops and is married to actress Juri Ueno.