is a common masculine Japanese given name.

Possible writings

Hideki can be written using different

kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese ...

characters and can mean: *秀樹, "excellence", "timber trees" *英樹, "superior", "timber trees" *英機, "superior", "chance" *秀喜, "excellence", "pleasure" *秀紀, "excellence", "chronicle" *英輝, "superior", "brightness" *英希, "superior", "hope" The name can also be written in

hiragana is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' literally means "flowing" or "simple" kana ("simple" originally as contrast ...

katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived fr ...

People with the name

Notable people with the name include: *

Hideki Abe is a common masculine Japanese name, Japanese given name. Possible writings Hideki can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *秀樹, "excellence", "timber trees" *英樹, "superior", "timber trees" *英機, "superior", "chanc ...

(安倍栄基), Japanese video game composer * Hideki Arai (新井英樹, born 1963), Japanese manga artist *

Hideki Fujii was a Japanese photographer A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs. Duties and types ...

(藤井秀樹, born 1934), Japanese photographer * Hideki Fujisawa (藤沢秀樹, born 1963), also known as Dance☆Man, Japanese musician *, Japanese basketball player *, Japanese professional wrestler * Hideki Imai (今井秀樹, born 1943), Japanese information theorist and cryptographer * Hideki Imamura (born January 29, 1972), Japanese musician, co-founder and vocalist of the band Siam Shade * Hideki Irabu (伊良部秀輝, 1969-2011), a Japanese professional baseball player who played in both Japan and the United States *, Japanese footballer * Hideki Isoda (磯田秀樹, born 1970), Japanese producer, director, and composer * Hideki Kadowaki (門脇英基, born 1976), Japanese mixed martial artist * Hideki Kamiya (神谷英樹), Japanese video game designer * Hideki Kita (喜多秀喜, born 1952), retired Japanese long-distance runner * Hideki Kojima (小島英樹), Japanese voice actor * Hideki Komatsu (小松英樹, born 1967), Japanese Go player * Hideki Makihara (牧原秀樹, born 1971), Japanese politician *

Hideki Matsui , nicknamed "Godzilla", is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder and designated hitter who played baseball in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and Major League Baseball (MLB). He batted left-handed and threw right-handed. Matsui pl ...

(松井秀喜, born 1974), Japanese baseball player * Hideki Matsutake (born 1951), Japanese electronic musician * Hideki Matsuoka (松岡秀樹, born 1968), Japanese Go player * Hideki Matsuyama (born 1992), Japanese golfer *, Japanese Nordic combined skier *

Hideki Murai is a Japanese politician from the Liberal Democratic Party. He has represented Saitama 1st district in the House of Representatives since 2012. In the Second Kishida Cabinet, he serves as Special Adviser to the Prime Minister A prime ...

(born 1980), Japanese politician *

Hideki Mutoh is a Japanese race car driver from Tokyo currently racing in Super GT. Career History He began karting at age 12 in 1996 and quickly moved through the ranks, becoming a part of Honda's Formula Dream Project. He moved to Europe in 1998 to ...

(武藤英紀, born 1982), Japanese race car driver *

Hideki Naganuma (born May 16, 1972) is a Japanese composer and DJ who primarily does work for video games. Naganuma is best known for his score for the game ''Jet Set Radio'' and its sequel ''Jet Set Radio Future''. Early life Naganuma started his musical ca ...

(長沼英樹, born 1972), Japanese video game music composer and Twitter

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*, Japanese Nordic combined skier *, Japanese rugby union player * Hideki Niwa (丹羽秀樹, born 1972), Japanese politician * Hideki Niizuma (born 1970), Japanese politician *, Japanese racing driver *, Japanese actor, playwright and theatre director *

Hideki Okajima is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher. Okajima pitched for the Yomiuri Giants, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, and Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon Professional Baseball, and the Boston Red Sox and Oakland Athle ...

(岡島秀樹, born 1974), Japanese baseball player *

Hideki Saijo was a Japanese singer and television celebrity most famous for singing the Japanese version of the Village People's hit song " Y.M.C.A.," called " Young Man." In the 1970s, he was called with Goro Noguchi and Hiromi Go. Although the origina ...

(西城秀樹, 1955-2018), Japanese singer and television celebrity * Hideki Shirakawa (白川英樹, born 1936), Japanese chemist and winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry *, Japanese baseball player *

Hideki Takahashi is a Japanese actor. Born in Kisarazu, Chiba near Tokyo, he attended Ichikawa Gakuen and later Nihon University. Career Takahashi made his debut with Nikkatsu and acted in youth-oriented films. Takahashi made film debut with ''Kōgenji'' directe ...

(高橋英樹, born 1944), Japanese actor * Hideki Tasaka (田坂秀樹, born 1975), Japanese voice actor *, Japanese boxer *

Hideki Tojo Hideki Tojo (, ', December 30, 1884 – December 23, 1948) was a Japanese politician, general of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), and convicted war criminal who served as prime minister of Japan and president of the Imperial Rule Assistan ...

(東條英機, 1884-1948), Japanese Prime Minister during World War II * Hideki Yukawa (湯川秀樹, 1907-1981), Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate *, Japanese sumo wrestler

Fictional characters

* Hideki Motosuwa (本須和秀樹), a character in the manga series '' Chobits'' * Hideki, a character in the anime series '' Devil Hunter Yohko'' * Hideki Go, the alter ego of Ultraman Jack from the 1971 tokusatsu film '' The Return of Ultraman'' * Ryūga Hideki (流河旱樹), an alias for L from the manga ''

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'' * Hideki Nishimura, a character in the light novel series ''

And You Thought There Is Never a Girl Online? is a Japanese light novel series, written by Shibai Kineko and illustrated by Hisasi. ASCII Media Works have published twenty-one volumes since 2013 under their Dengeki Bunko imprint. A manga adaptation with art by Kazui Ishigami was seriali ...

'' * Hideki Alessandro De Blasiis Novikov, one of the main characters from ''

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