is a common masculine

Japanese given name in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name, in that order. Nevertheless, when a Japanese name is written in the Roman alphabet, ever since the Meiji era, the official policy has been to cater to Western expecta ...

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 f ...

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 (born 15 September 1963 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese manga artist. He received the 38th Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga in 1993 for ''Miyamoto kara Kimi e''. His manga '' The World Is Mine'' was chosen by the editors of '' Pulp' ...

(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 (born October 12, 1963) is a Japanese musician, better known by the stage name . Dance☆Man calls himself an alien from "Mirror Ball Planet". He is always seen wearing a huge afro wig and sideburns, matched with sunglasses. He is very secretive ...

(藤沢秀樹, born 1963), also known as Dance☆Man, Japanese musician *, Japanese basketball player *, Japanese professional wrestler *

Hideki Imai is an information theorist and cryptographer, currently the director of Research Center for Information Security ( RCIS), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and a full professor at Chuo University. His notabl ...

(今井秀樹, born 1943), Japanese information theorist and cryptographer *

Hideki Imamura is a common masculine 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", "chance" *秀喜, "ex ...

(born January 29, 1972), Japanese musician, co-founder and vocalist of the band

Siam Shade Siam Shade (stylized as SIAM SHADE) was a five-piece Japanese rock band, formed in Tokyo in 1991. The classic line-up of Hideki on vocals, Natchin on bass, Kazuma and Daita on guitar, and Jun-ji on drums broke onto the visual kei scene alongsi ...

Hideki Irabu was a Japanese professional baseball player of American and Japanese mixed ancestry. He played professionally in both Japan and the United States. Irabu played for the Lotte Orions / Chiba Lotte Marines and Hanshin Tigers of Nippon Professiona ...

(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 is a common masculine 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", "chance" *秀喜, "ex ...

(磯田秀樹, born 1970), Japanese producer, director, and composer *

Hideki Kadowaki (born 28 May 1976) is a Japanese mixed martial artist. A professional competitor since 2000, he has competed for Shooto, DEEP, and World Victory Road. He is the former Shooto Lightweight (143 lbs) Champion. Biography Hideki Kadowaki was bo ...

(門脇英基, born 1976), Japanese mixed martial artist *

Hideki Kamiya is a Japanese video game designer and director who is the vice-president of PlatinumGames. He began his career in 1994 with Capcom, where he directed '' Resident Evil 2'' (1998), ''Devil May Cry'' (2001), '' Viewtiful Joe'' (2003), and ''Ō ...

(神谷英樹), Japanese video game designer *

Hideki Kita is a retired male long-distance runner from Japan. His personal best at the marathon distance was 2:10:30 at the 1983 Fukuoka Marathon The is an IAAF Gold Label international men's marathon race held in Fukuoka, Japan. It was previously known a ...

(喜多秀喜, born 1952), retired Japanese long-distance runner *

Hideki Kojima is a common masculine 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", "chance" *秀喜, "ex ...

(小島英樹), Japanese voice actor *

Hideki Komatsu is a professional Go player. Biography Komatsu was born in Aichi, Japan and quickly rose among the ranks of Go in the 1980s and early 1990s. He currently resides in Tokyo, Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku' ...

(小松英樹, born 1967), Japanese Go player *

Hideki Makihara is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Tokyo he attended the University of Tokyo and law school at Georgetown University Georgetown U ...

(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. Mats ...

(松井秀喜, born 1974), Japanese baseball player *

Hideki Matsutake Hideki Matsutake (born August 12, 1951 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese composer, arranger, and computer programmer. He is known for his pioneering work in electronic music and particularly music programming, as the assis ...

(born 1951), Japanese electronic musician *

Hideki Matsuoka is a professional Go player Player may refer to: Role or adjective * Player (game), a participant in a game or sport ** Gamer, a player in video and tabletop games ** Athlete, a player in sports ** Player character, a character in a video ...

(松岡秀樹, born 1968), Japanese Go player *

Hideki Matsuyama is a Japanese professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He is the first-ever Japanese professional golfer to win a men's major golf championship the 2021 Masters Tournament. As of January 2022, Matsuyama has 17 worldwide wins, eight car ...

(born 1992), Japanese golfer *, Japanese Nordic combined skier * Hideki Murai (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 t ...

(武藤英紀, born 1982), Japanese race car driver * Hideki Naganuma (長沼英樹, born 1972), Japanese video game music composer and Twitter shitposter *, Japanese Nordic combined skier *, Japanese rugby union player *

Hideki Niwa is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Kasugai, Aichi and graduate of Tamagawa University is a Japanese university in Machida, ...

(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 (西城秀樹, 1955-2018), Japanese singer and television celebrity *

Hideki Shirakawa is a Japanese chemist, engineer, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and Zhejiang University. He is best known for his discovery of conductive polymers. He was co-recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Alan Ma ...

(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 is a Japanese voice actor who currently works for Sigma Seven. He is best known as the voice of Reks in the original Japanese version of ''Final Fantasy XII'' and Duelo McFile in '' Vandread''. Notable voice roles Anime television *'' Blood+' ...

(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 was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate for his prediction of the pi meson, or pion. Biography He was born as Hideki Ogawa in Tokyo and grew up in Kyoto with two older brothers, two older sisters, and two yo ...

(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 is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by the Japanese manga collective Clamp. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Young Magazine'' from September 2000 to October 2002, with its chapters collected ...

'' * Hideki, a character in the anime series ''

Devil Hunter Yohko is a Japanese original video animation series created by Madhouse, produced by Toho, and released in North America by ADV Films as their first release. The series was first released on December 1, 1990 and ended on July 1, 1995. It is about ...

'' * Hideki Go, the alter ego of Ultraman Jack from the 1971 tokusatsu film ''

The Return of Ultraman is a Japanese ''tokusatsu'' science fiction television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions. The fourth entry in the Ultra series, the series aired on Tokyo Broadcasting System from April 2, 1971, to March 31, 1972. It became successful eno ...

'' * Ryūga Hideki (流河旱樹), an alias for L from the manga '' Death Note'' * Hideki Nishimura, a character in the light novel series '' And You Thought There Is Never a Girl Online?'' * Hideki Alessandro De Blasiis Novikov, one of the main characters from '' The World is Truly a Beautiful Place, Captain Kiyoshi!'' {{given name Japanese masculine given names