Kazuhiro is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Kazuhiro Fujita
is a Japanese manga artist. He graduated from Nihon University. He made his professional manga debut in ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' in 1989. He is most famous for the manga '' Ushio & Tora'', for which he won Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in ...
, Japanese manga artist
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Kazuhiro Furuhashi
is a Japanese anime director and supervisor. He is amongst anime's most foremost directors, having directed and helmed the ''Rurouni Kenshin'' series (including the original television series, and its subsequent much-lauded OVA iterations), '' Z ...
, Japanese anime director and supervisor
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Kazuhiro Hamanaka
is a Japanese mixed martial arts, mixed martial artist. He fought for the Tokyo Sabres in the International Fight League.
Career
Hamanaka began his mixed martial arts career in 2003 with a victory over Nino Schembri, Antonio Schembri at PRIDE 2 ...
, professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
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Kazuhiro Haraguchi
is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party for the People and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
Career
A native of Saga, Saga and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he was elected to the assembl ...
(born 1959), Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan
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Kazuhiro Inoue (born 1973), Japanese mixed martial artist
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Kazuhiro Kawata (born 1982), Japanese football player
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Kirishima Kazuhiro
Kirishima Kazuhiro (Japanese: 霧島 一博, born April 3, 1959) is a former sumo wrestler from Makizono, Kagoshima, Japan, who held the second highest rank of '' ōzeki'' from 1990 to 1992 and won one top division tournament championship, and was ...
(born 1959), former sumo wrestler from Makizono, Kagoshima, Japan
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Kazuhiro Kiuchi (born 1960), Japanese manga artist and film director
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Kazuhiro Kiyohara (born 1967), former professional baseball player in Japan
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Kazuhiro Kokubo
is a Japanese snowboarder who has won multiple medals in international events, including consecutive golds in US Open Halfpipe in 2010 and 2011. He competed at the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics and 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, representing Ja ...
(born 1988), Japanese snowboarder
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Kazuhiro Koshi
is a Japanese skeleton racer who has competed since 1991.
Competing in three Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of eighth in the men's skeleton event at Salt Lake City in 2002. He was the oldest member of the Japanese team at the 2010 Wi ...
(born 1964), Japanese skeleton racer who has competed since 1991
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Kotoshōgiku Kazuhiro
is a Japanese former professional sumo wrestler. Wrestling for Sadogatake stable, he made his professional debut in 2002, and reached the top division in 2005. In 2011 he achieved the standard for promotion to the second highest rank of '' ōz ...
(born 1984), sumo wrestler
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Kazuhiro Maeda
Kazuhiro Maeda ( ja, 前田 和浩; born 19 April 1981) is a Japanese long-distance runner.
Born in Shiroishi, Saga, Maeda made his international debut at the 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics, where he ran in the heats of the 5000 me ...
(born 1981), Japanese long-distance runner
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Kazuhiro Mizoguchi
is a Japanese former javelin thrower. He set the world best year performance in 1989, throwing 87.60 metres at a meet in San Jose, California
San Jose, officially San José (; ; ), is a major city in the U.S. state of California that is the cu ...
(born 1962), javelin thrower from Japan
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Kazuhiro Mori (footballer) (born 1981), Japanese football player
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Kazuhiro Mori (cyclist) (born 1982), Japanese cyclist
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Kazuhiro Murakami
is a former Japanese football player He is the current assistant managers of Vegalta Sendai.
Playing career
Murakami was born in Yokkaichi on January 20, 1981. After graduating from high school, he joined J1 League club Yokohama F. Marinos in ...
(born 1981), Japanese football player
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Kazuhiro Murata
is a former Japanese football player.
Playing career
Murata was born in Nagasaki Prefecture on May 12, 1969. After graduating from Chuo University, he joined his local club Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki in Regional Leagues. In 1993, he ...
(born 1969), Japanese former football player
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Kazuhiro Nakamura
Kazuhiro Nakamura ( , born July 16, 1979) is a retired Japanese mixed martial artist who competed as a Middleweight in DREAM, and is a former DEEP Middleweight Champion. He fought out of the Yoshida Dojo and also competed in the Pride Fighting ...
(born 1979), Japanese MMA fighter known for his antics inside and outside of the ring
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Kazuhiro Nakata
is a Japanese Voice acting in Japan, voice actor affiliated with Ken Production. He played Bear in ''.hack//Sign'' and Fei-Wang Reed in ''Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle''.
Biography
He became interested with voice acting, while studying university ...
(born 1958), Japanese voice actor
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Kazuhiro Nakaya
is a Japanese marine scientist and ichthyologist. He graduated from Hokkaido University with a BA in 1968 and with a PhD in 1972. He is professor of Marine Environment and Resources at the Marine Laboratory for Biodiversity. He specializes in ta ...
, Japanese marine scientist and ichthyologist
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Kazuhiro Ninomiya
is a retired judoka who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Biography
After graduating from Tenri University, Ninomiya entered the Shoki Juku under the instruction of Isao Okano. He joined the Fukuoka Prefecture police force in Ap ...
(born 1946), retired judoka
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Kazuhiro Nishikawa
is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 6-dan. Nishikawa's father Kenji was also a professional shogi player.
Early life
Nishiyama was born on April 2, 1986, in Kobe, Japan. Although his father Keiji was a professional shogi player, ...
, Japanese shogi player
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Kazuhiro Sano
is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor best known for his '' pink films'' of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Takahisa Zeze, Toshiki Satō and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the . Sano's films differ from those of o ...
(born 1956), Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor
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Kazuhiro Sasaki
Kazuhiro "Daimajin" Sasaki (佐々木 主浩 ''Sasaki Kazuhiro'', born February 22, 1968) is a former Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher. He played his entire NPB career with the Yokohama Taiyo W ...
(born 1968), retired relief pitcher
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Kazuhiro Suzuki
is a former Japanese football player.
Club career
Suzuki was born in Tokyo on November 16, 1976. After graduating from high school, he joined JEF United Ichihara with Takayuki Chano in 1995. He played many matches from first season. However hi ...
(born 1976), Japanese football player
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Kazuhiro Takeda
was a Japanese baseball player.
He played the first half of his career for the Nippon-Ham Fighters in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He was also the pitching coach for the Japan national baseball team
The is the national team represe ...
(born 1965), Japanese baseball player
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Kazuhiro Tanaka
is a Japanese professional drifting driver, currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series foTeam OrangeanYuke’s
He entered the D1 Grand Prix in the first round in 2001 and had his first win in 2003. He is a member of Team Orange with Nob ...
, Japanese professional drifting driver
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Kazuhiro Wada (born 1972), (Ben), Japanese baseball player
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Kazuhiro Yamaji
is a Japanese actor and voice actor affiliated with the Seinenza Theater Company. He has been married to Romi Park since 2020.
Filmography Live-action films
* 2000: '' Whiteout'' (Takayoshi Yoshikane)
* 2001: ''Inugami'' (Takanao)
* 2004: '' Ka ...
(born 1954), Japanese actor and voice actor affiliated with the Seinenza Theater Company
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Kazuhiro Yamauchi
was a Japanese baseball player and manager. He played for the Mainichi Orions, the Hanshin Tigers and the Hiroshima Toyo Carp over the span of an 18 season-long career (1952–1970).
Yamauchi was the first Japanese professional baseball playe ...
(1932–2009), Japanese baseball player and manager
*, Japanese table tennis player
See also
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Kazu Hiro
Kazu Hiro (born Kazuhiro Tsuji, ja, 辻 一弘 ; born May 26, 1969) is a Japanese-born American special make-up effects artist and visual artist. He won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the biographical films '' Darkest H ...
(born 1969), American prosthetic makeup artist
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