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Gran Hamada (real name Hiroaki Hamada) is Japanese professional wrestler, the first to adopt the high-flying Mexican lucha libre style. He has wrestled for New Japan Pro Wrestling, the Universal Wrestling Federation, Michinoku Pro, and All Japan Pro Wrestling, and was the founder of Universal Lucha Libre. He has also had stints with the World Wrestling Federation and Extreme Championship Wrestling in the United States.

He was one of the first dojo trainees at New Japan Pro Wrestling, being known as Little Hamada in the beginning. Sent to Mexico's Universal Wrestling Association because of his lack of size, he found a lot of success there - so much that Mexican fans and promoters began calling him Gran Hamada (Great Hamada) and the name stuck. He also competed in Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre, which added El (The) to the front of his name: El Gran Hamada.

In 1984 he became a member of the initial roster of the original Japanese UWF, but found that his flamboyantly acrobatic style clashed with the martial arts-inspired style and focus on realism of the UWF, and soon left for All Japan Pro Wrestling. He eventually broke off from AJPW to form his own promotion in 1990: Universal Lucha Libre. However, wrestlers began to leave the ULL in 1993, and in 1995 Hamada closed the promotion to join Michinoku Pro, which had been formed by former ULL wrestlers.

In 2001 he began competing for All Japan again, this time as a free agent. He briefly was part of the "Love Machines" stable under a mask as "Mini Love Machine" with "Super Love Machine" (Junji Hirata of New Japan, reprising his old role as "Super Strong Machine") and "Love Machine Storm" (Arashi, whose stage name literally means "storm"). They used Morning Musume's "Love Machine" song as their entrance theme.

His daughters Xochitl and Ayako, who are half-Mexican, are also professional wrestlers.

He has apparently resurfaced in New Japan under the WRESTLE LAND brand at their second show on June 30, disguised as Masked Hurricane and teaming with Ray Cobra against Tiger Mask IV and Edo Samurai in a losing effort (Ray Cobra was pinned after a tombstone piledriver from Tiger Mask IV).

• Hama-Chan Cutter (Top rope cutter)
• Huracanrana
• Swinging DDT
• Jumping belly to back suplex

• 3-Time UWA World Middleweight Champion
• 5-Time UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Champion
• 2-Time UWA World Light Heavyweight Champion
• 1-Time NWA Americas Champion
• 2-Time WWF World Light-Heavyweight Champion
• 1-Time WWF Intercontinental Tag Team Champion (with Perro Aguayo)
• 1-Time AJPW World Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion
• 1-Time NWA World Middleweight Champion
• 3-Time UWA World Tag Team Champion (with Riki Chōshū, Perro Aguayo, and Kendo)
• 1-Time UWA/UWF Intercontinental Tag Team Champion (with The Great Sasuke)
• 1-Time UWF Super Middleweight Champion
• 1-Time WWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Champion
• 1-Time P*MIX Tag Team Champion (with Ayako Hamada)
• 1-Time BJPW Heavyweight Champion