is a common masculine Japanese given name. It can also be transliterated as Hirosi.
Possible writings
Hiroshi can be written using different
kanji characters and can mean:
*浩, "meaning"
*汎
*弘,
*宏,
*寛,
*洋,
*博,
*博一,
*博司,
*博史,
*弘詩,
*大嗣,
*博司,
*博史,
*弘詩,
*大嗣,
People with the name
*, Japanese comedian
*
Hiroshi Abe (disambiguation), multiple people
*, Japanese actor
*, Japanese astronomer
*
Hiroshi Abe (war criminal) (born 1922), Japanese soldier
*, Japanese screenwriter and film director
*, Japanese baseball player
*, Japanese actor
*, Japanese handball player
*
Hiroshi Hara (disambiguation), multiple people
*
, multiple people
*
Hiroshi Honda (disambiguation) Hiroshi Honda may refer to:
* , Japanese former handball player
* Hiroshi Honda (painter) (1910–1970), American painter
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, multiple people
*, Japanese ice hockey player
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese bobsledder
*, Japanese film director
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese diplomat
*, Japanese electrical engineer
*, Japanese lepidopterist
*, Japanese bryologist
*, Japanese ski jumper
*
Hiroshi Ito (disambiguation) Hiroshi Ito or Hiroshi Itō may refer to:
* (born 1933), voice actor born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
* Hiroshi Itō (), IBM Fellow and co-inventor of chemically amplified photoresists
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, multiple people
*, Japanese enka singer
*, Japanese golfer
*, Japanese professional baseball player
*
Hiroshi Kajiyama (disambiguation) Hiroshi Kajiyama may refer to:
* Hiroshi Kajiyama (politician) (born 1955), Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party
* Hiroshi Kajiyama (gymnast)
is a Japanese former gymnast who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics
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, multiple people
*, Japanese voice actor
*, Japanese shogi player
*
Hiroshi Kashiwagi
Hiroshi Kashiwagi (November 8, 1922 – October 29, 2019) was a ''Nisei'' (second-generation Japanese American) poet, playwright and actor. For his writing and performance work on stage he is considered an early pioneer of Asian American theatr ...
(1922–2019), American poet, playwright and actor
*, Japanese footballer and manager
*, Japanese aikidoka
*, Japanese actor
*, Japanese actor
*, Japanese video game composer
*, Japanese boxer
*, Japanese businessman
*, Japanese singer
*, Japanese shogi player
*Hiroshi Kobayashi (shogi, born 1976), Japanese shogi player
*, Japanese announcer and television presenter
*Hiroshi Lockheimer, a Japanese German software engineer and one of the founding members of the Android team at Google
*, Japanese freestyle skier
*Hiroshi Masuoka (disambiguation), multiple people
*Hiroshi Matsumoto (disambiguation), multiple people
*, Japanese gymnast
*, Japanese ice hockey player
*, Japanese actor
*, President and CEO of Rakuten
*, Japanese politician
*, Japanese swimmer
*, Japanese shogi player
*, Japanese actor
*Hiroshi H. Miyamura (1925–2022), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
*Hiroshi Mori (disambiguation), multiple people
*, better known as Heath, Japanese musician
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese jazz drummer
* Japanese singer, a member of boy band V6 (band), V6
* Hiroshi Naganuma, Japanese shogi player
*, Japanese boxer
*, Mayor of Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
*, Japanese football player
*, Japanese baseball player
*, Japanese comedian
*, Japanese director
*, Japanese former baseball player and convicted murderer
*, Japanese shogi player
*, Japanese theoretical physicist
*, Japanese screenwriter and novelist
*Hiroshi Ōshima, Japanese general and diplomat
*, Japanese voice actor
*, Japanese basketball player
*, Japanese diplomat
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese politician from Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture
*, Japanese mathematician
*, Japanese politician from Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture
*, Japanese modern pentathlete
*, Japanese rower
*, Japanese swimmer
*, Japanese director of several anime and manga series
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese curler and curling coach
*, Japanese screenwriter
*, Japanese table tennis player
*, Japanese voice actor
*, Japanese voice actor
*, pen name of Kaoru Kishiue, Japanese writer
*Hiroshi Shimizu (disambiguation), multiple people
*Hiroshi Suzuki (disambiguation), multiple people
*, Japanese actor
*, Japanese architect
*, Japanese manga artist
*, Japanese table tennis player
*, Japanese voice actor
*Takeya Hiroshi, Hiroshi Takeya, a professor and physician in Japan
*, Japanese television presenter
*, Japanese actor
*Hiroshi Tanahashi (棚橋弘至, born 1976), Japanese professional wrestler
*, Japanese figure skater and coach
*, Japanese high jumper
*, Japanese filmmaker
*, Japanese rower
*, Japanese actor
*, Japanese archaeologist and anthropologist
*, former Yokozuna in sumo
*Hiroshi Watanabe (disambiguation), multiple people
*, Japanese politician
*, Japanese archer
*, Japanese politician
*Hiroshi Yamamoto (shogi), Japanese shogi player
*, Japanese naval officer
*, Japanese cyclist
*, Japanese professional wrestler
*, former president of Nintendo
*, Japanese photographer
*, Japanese weightlifter
*, Japanese economist
*, Japanese musician and composer
*, Japanese author (of books such as Math Girls) and computer programmer
People with the surname
* Sandro Hiroshi, Japanese-Brazilian footballer
Fictional characters
*Hiroshi (Gaeru), the protagonist of ''Dokonjō Gaeru''
*Hiroshi (Pokémon), known in English as Ritchie (Pokémon), Ritchie, a character in the ''Pokémon'' anime
*Hiroshi (Ranma), a character in ''Ranma ½'', one of Ranma's two friends, the other being Daisuke
*Hiroshi (Sesame Street), an aspiring artist on ''Sesame Street'' played by Gedde Watanabe in the late 1980s/Early 1990s
*Hiroshi Abe, a character in ''Shonan Junai Gumi''
*Hiroshi Agasa (''Herschel Agasa'' in the English anime), in ''Case Closed: Detective Conan''
*Hiroshi Akiba, a character from the manga ''Inubaka''
*Hiroshi Ichikawa, a character from ''Wild Strikers''
*Hiroshi Ichikawa, a character in the Manga and anime ''Kaibutsu-kun''
*Hiroshi Kochatani, a character in ''Great Teacher Onizuka''
*Hiroshi Kubo, a character from the novel ''Shiosai''
*Hiroshi Kuronaga, Boy #9 in ''Battle Royale (novel), Battle Royale''
*Hiroshi Matsumoto, a character in ''Miss Machiko''
*Hiroshi Morenos, a character from the anime ''Michiko & Hatchin''
*Hiroshi Mochizuki, a character in ''Kamen Rider ZO''
*Hiroshi Nakano (Gravitation), Hiroshi Nakano, a character in the Manga and anime ''Gravitation''
*Hiroshi Nitta, a character in ''Denjin Zaborger''
*Hiroshi Nohara (born c. 1960), father of the protagonist, Shinnosuke, in ''Crayon Shin-chan''
*Hiroshi Sakura, the father of the protagonist, Momoko Maruko, in ''Chibi Maruko-chan''
*Hiroshi Uchiyamada, a character in ''Great Teacher Onizuka''
*Hiroshi Udagawa, a fictional businessman in the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours''
*Hiroshi Yushima, a character in ''Digimon Savers''
*Hiroshi Sato, Superior businessman, Equalist sympathizer, and father to Asami Sato in ''The Legend of Korra''
*Hiroshi, the main protagonist of the survival horror game ''Ao Oni''
*Hiroshi, the main protagonist of the ''Durarara!''
*Hiroshi Hirai, a character in ''Denshi Sentai Denziman''
*Hiroshi Fukuda, a character in ''Kuroko no Basuke''
*Hiroshi Fumihiro, from ''Initial D''
*Hiroshi Hayashi, a character in ''Yakuza (video game), Yakuza''
{{wiktionary, Hiroshi
Japanese masculine given names