Hirano (, the kanji character 平 is for " flat, plain, calm" and the kanji character 野 is for "

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Japanese surname Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames, as determined by their kanji, although many of these are Japanese orthography, pronounced and romanization of Japanese, romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames w ...

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The same combination of kanji characters read as "Heiya" can mean a plain or a flat land.

People named Hirano include

Asao Hirano was a Japanese physician, academic, medical researcher and neuropathologist. He is credited with having first observed Hirano bodies which are intracellular aggregates of actin and actin-associated proteins in the neurons (nerve cells). Caree ...

(1926-2019), Japanese physician, academic, medical researcher and neuropathology professor *

Aya Hirano is a Japanese actress and singer associated with the voice acting agency Grick. Beginning in the entertainment industry as a child actor in television commercials, she appeared in her first voice acting role in the anime television series '' A ...

( 平野綾, born 1987), Japanese voice actress and singer *

Ayumu Hirano is a Japanese Olympic champion and three-time Olympic medalist snowboarder and Olympic skateboarder. He won the silver medal in the superpipe in 2013 Winter X Games XVII at the age of 14, becoming the youngest medalist in X Games history, and wo ...

( 平野歩夢, born 1955), Japanese Olympic snowboarder and skateboarder *

Fumi Hirano is a Japanese actress, voice actress, singer and essayist who voiced Lum in the anime series ''Urusei Yatsura''. Fumi attended Tamagawa University in Machida, Tokyo where she graduated with a degree in Theatre from the Department of Fine Art ...

( 平野文) (born 1955), Japanese voice actress, singer and essayist * Irene Hirano (1948–2020), founding President of the

U.S.-Japan Council The U.S.-Japan Council ( ja, 米日カウンシル, ''Beinichi Kaunshiru'', USJC) is a 501(c) organization, 501(c) 3 non-profit educational organization that contributes to strengthening Japan–United States relations, U.S.-Japan relations by bri ...

Ken Hirano was the pen name of a prominent Japanese literary critic and longtime professor of literature at Meiji University. His real name was . Hirano was one of the seven founders of the journal ''Kindai Bungaku'' ("Modern Literature"), and played a st ...

( 平野謙 (評論家), 1910—1978), Japanese literary critic * Kaishu Hirano (born 2002), Japanese snowboarder * Keiichiro Hirano ( 平野啓一郎, born 1975), Japanese novelist *

Kouta Hirano is a Japanese manga artist born in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan, most famous for his manga ''Hellsing'' and ''Drifters''. Career Hirano said he learned how to be a manga artist from reading Akira Toriyama and Akira Sakuma's '' Hetappi Manga Kenkyūjo' ...

( 平野耕太, born 1973), Japanese manga artist * Masaaki Hirano ( 平野雅章, 1931—2008), Japanese food historian *

Masato Hirano (voice actor) is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Iwate Prefecture who works for Aoni Production. Among his other roles, he has performed the characters Ippon-Matsu and Gorousei (''One Piece''), Zaku (''Fist of the North Star'') and Kinnikuman B ...

( 平野正人, born 1955), Japanese voice actor *, Japanese sport shooter *

Hirano Nagayasu was a samurai retainer to Japanese warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi during the Azuchi-Momoyama period of the 17th century. He was known as one of the "Seven Spears of Shizugatake". Following the Battle of Shizugatake in 1583, Nagayasu came to be kn ...

( 平野長泰, 1559—1628), Japanese Samurai *

Nobutaka Hirano Nobutaka Hirano (born December 5, 1972) is a former volleyball player from Ama, Aichi, Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and ...

( 平野信孝, born 1972), Japanese volleyball player * Remi Hirano ( 平野レミ, born 1947), Japanese cooking enthusiast, TV persona and singer *, Japanese ballet dancer *

Sayaka Hirano is a Japanese five-time national table tennis champion. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, reaching the third round of the singles competition. She also competed in the team competition, reaching the bronze medal final but losing to So ...

( 平野早矢香, born 1985), Japanese table tennis player *, Japanese ice hockey player *

Toshiki Hirano is a Japanese anime director, animator, and character designer. His wife is a fellow animator and manga artist Narumi Kakinouchi is a female Japanese manga artist, illustrator, animator, director, character designer, and an animation director ...

( 平野俊貴, born 1956), Japanese anime director, animator, and character designer *, Japanese triathlete *

Yoshihisa Hirano is a Japanese composer and arranger. He is best known for composing the scores for anime series, such as ''Death Note'', '' Hunter × Hunter (2011)'', and ''Edens Zero''. He has also made the orchestration for video games, mostly in the Final ...

( 平野義久, born 1971), Japanese composer and arranger *

Yoshihisa Hirano (baseball) (born March 8, 1984) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Orix Buffaloes of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He previously played for the Buffaloes from 2006-2007, 2009-2017, and the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2018 and 2019, and ...

( 平野佳寿, born 1984), Japanese baseball player * Yoshiko Hirano ( 世志琥, born 1993), Japanese professional wrestler * Yuichi Hirano ( 平野佑一, born 1996), Japanese footballer *, Japanese ice hockey player

Places

* Hirano-ku - one of the 24 wards of

Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2. ...

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Hirano Shrine The is a Shinto shrine in Kyoto. This shrine is known and popular for its gardens and many trees. History The shrine was established in the year 794 by Emperor Kammu when the capital was transferred to Heian-kyō from Nagaoka-kyō. From the ear ...

, a Shinto shrine in the city of Kyoto

Railway stations

Hirano Station (平野駅) is the name of four railway stations in Japan: * Hirano Station (Fukushima) * Hirano Station (Hyogo) *

Hirano Station (JR West) is a railway station on the West Japan Railway Company Kansai Main Line (Yamatoji Line) in Hirano-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Layout The station on the Yamatoji Line has a side platform serving a track, an island platform serving two tra ...

* Hirano Station (Osaka Municipal Subway) {{disambiguation, surname Japanese-language surnames