Shiro, Shirō, Shirow or Shirou may refer to:
People
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Amakusa Shirō
, also known as , was a Japanese Christian of the Edo period and leader of the Shimabara Rebellion, an uprising of Japanese Roman Catholics against the Shogunate. His Christian name was Geronimo and later Francisco.
The uprising led by Shirō ...
(1621–1638), leader of the Shimabara Rebellion
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Ken Shiro
, known professionally by his ring name , is a Japanese professional boxer. He is a two-time and unified light flyweight champion, having held the WBC light flyweight title from 2017 to 2021, and the unified WBA (Super), WBC, and ''The Ring' ...
(born 1992), Japanese boxer
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Shiro Azumi
was a Japanese football player. He played for the Japanese national team.
Club career
After graduating from high school, Azumi played for Osaka SC was founded by his alma mater high school graduates and many Japan national team players Kiyoo ...
, Japanese football player 1923–1925
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Shiro Ichinoseki
is a retired Japanese bantamweight weightlifter. He competed at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics and finished in third and fifth place, respectively. Between 1963 and 1965 he set three official world records – two in the snatch and one in the tota ...
(born 1944), Japanese weightlifter
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Shirō Ishii
Surgeon General was a Japanese microbiologist and army medical officer who served as the director of Unit 731, a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army.
Ishii led the development and application of biological weapons at Unit 73 ...
(1892–1959), Japanese microbiologist and lieutenant general
*, Japanese actor and comedian
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Shiro Izumi
is a former Japanese people, Japanese actor, well known for his roles in the Super Sentai franchise. He played two different central characters there: Yuuma Oozora/Change Pegasus in ''Dengeki Sentai Changeman'' and the role for which he gained ...
(born 1961), Japanese actor, known for the Super Sentai franchise
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Shiro Kashiwa
Shiro Kashiwa (October 24, 1912 – March 13, 1998) was an American lawyer and judge who was the first Attorney General of Hawaii to be appointed after it became a state in 1959. He served as a judge of the United States Court of Claims, then as ...
(1912–1998), Attorney General of Hawaii from 1959
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Shiro Kawase
was a vice admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He was a torpedo expert and his extensive experience as a commander of destroyers and destroyer formations made him more knowledgeable about the escort of convoys than most Ja ...
(1889–1946), Japanese admiral
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Shiro Kikuhara
is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.
Club career
Kikuhara was born in Kanagawa Prefecture on July 7, 1969. He joined the Yomiuri (later ''Verdy Kawasaki'') youth team in 1985. In February 1986, he debuted ...
(born 1969), Japanese football player
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Shiro Kishibe
was a Japanese actor from Kyoto.
He played the role of Sandy in ''Monkey''. Before becoming an actor, Kishibe was a guitarist and vocalist of a Japanese band called The Tigers. He has an elder brother, Ittoku Kishibe, who is also an actor, and ...
(born 1949), Japanese actor
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Shiro Koshinaka
is a Japanese professional wrestler who has competed in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and Wrestle Association "R" (WAR) during the 1980s and 1990s. He was also the first IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion.
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(born 1958), Japanese wrestler
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Shiro Kuramata Shiro Kuramata (, 29 November 1934 – 1 February 1991) is one of Japan's most important designers of the 20th century.
Biography
Kuramata was born in 1934. He was part of a generation of Japanese creatives born just before the outbreak of S ...
(1934–1991), Japanese designer
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Shiro Makino
was a Japanese general, who commanded the 16th Division in the Battle of Leyte
A battle is an occurrence of combat in warfare between opposing military units of any number or size. A war usually consists of multiple battles. In general, ...
(1893–1945), Japanese general at the Battle of Leyte
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Shiro Maruyama
is a Japanese fencer. He competed in the team foil event at the 1972 Summer Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an internat ...
(born 1948), Japanese fencer
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Shirō Masamune, Japanese manga artist
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Shiro Misaki, Japanese football player 1934
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Shirō Miwa, Japanese manga artist
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Shiro Miya (1943–2012), Japanese enka singer
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Shiro Nakamura
is a former Japanese car designer and company executive. Nakamura served as Senior Vice President of Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. From 2006, Nakamura had been Nissan's Chief Creative Officer. He was Chief Creative Officer of Nissan, Infiniti and Datsu ...
(born 1950), Japanese car designer
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Shiro Oishi
Shiro Oishi, born in 1942, is a former US National Champion in judo
is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全 ...
(born 1942), American judo practitioner and wrestler
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Shirō Sagisu
is a Japanese composer, arranger and music producer. With a career spanning over 40 years (beginning in the late 1970s), he is best known for his works as a record producer for acts including various choir members Mike Wyzgowski, Misia, Satoshi ...
(born 1957), Japanese music producer and composer
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Shiro Saigo
was one of the earliest disciples of Judo. Saigo, together with Tsunejiro Tomita, became first in history of judo to be awarded Shodan by the founder of judo Jigoro Kano, who established the kyu-dan ranking system. He was one of the Kōdōkan ...
(1866–1922), Japanese judo practitioner
*, Japanese film producer
*, Japanese cross-country skier
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Shiro Sokabe
Shiro Sokabe (June 26, 1865 – July 3, 1949) was a Christian missionary from Japan who ministered in Honomu, Hawaii. He was known as the "Samurai Missionary"
Early life
Sokabe was born in Fukuoka, Japan on June 26, 1865. He was the oldest so ...
(1865-1949), Japanese Christian minister
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Shiro Suzuki
is a Japanese announcer and ''tarento''. He was born in Kamigamo Shrine of the Shinto shrine of bushi samurais. After being a Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) announcer he later became a free announcer.
Suzuki is nicknamed .
Nanjing Massacre de ...
(born 1938), Japanese television announcer
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Shiro Yadama
is a Japanese author.
His most famous work, ''Hare Tokidoki Buta'', known in English as ''Fair, then Partly Piggy'', was later written as an anime series (titled ''Tokyo Pig'' in English) by Shinichi Watanabe.
Works
Yadama's works were transla ...
(born 1944), Japanese author
Fictional characters
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Kamui Shiro
, also written as Kamui Shirou, is a fictional character that was created by Clamp (manga artists), Clamp and introduced as the protagonist of the manga series ''X (manga), X''. Kamui is a young Extrasensory perception, esper who returns to his ...
, the main character of ''X''
* Shiro, mysterious albino girl in ''
Deadman Wonderland
is a Japanese manga series written by Jinsei Kataoka and illustrated by Kazuma Kondou, who also wrote and illustrated the '' Eureka Seven'' manga, and published in '' Shōnen Ace'' since 2008. Tokyopop acquired the licensing rights to distrib ...
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* Shiro, firearms-obsessed nephew in ''
Samurai Cat
Samurai Cat (aka Miaowara Tomokato) is the main character in a series of books by Mark Rogers. To accompany the anachronistic satire, almost every page in each book has a picture painted by Rogers, depicting the events described on that page. Ea ...
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* Shiro, gamer in ''
No Game No Life
is a Japanese light novel series by Yuu Kamiya. It is published under the MF Bunko J imprint with ten novels released between April 25, 2012, and January 25, 2018. The author and his wife, Mashiro Hiiragi, adapted the novels into a man ...
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Shiro Amada
is an original video animation (OVA) anime series in the Gundam franchise. Released from January 25, 1996, to July 25, 1999, the 12-episode series details the exploits of an Earth Federation ground unit during the One Year War - specifical ...
, commander in ''Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team''
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Shirō Emiya
, also written as "Shiro Emiya" in '' Fate/unlimited codes'', is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the 2004 visual novel ''Fate/stay night'', published by Type-Moon. Shirou is a teenager who accidentally participates in the "Hol ...
, the main character in ''Fate/stay night'' media
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Shirou Kazami
is an anime television series directed by Yasunori Ide, written by Yōsuke Kuroda, and produced by Bandai Visual. It was later adapted into a manga and light novel and centers on a group of friends and the odd things that happen to them ...
, the father of protagonist of ''Onegai Teacher''
* Shirō Shimizu, young theology student in ''
Jigoku''
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Takashi 'Shiro' Shirogane, black paladin in ''Voltron: Legendary Defender''
* Shiro Fujimoto, a character in ''
Ao no Exorcist
is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Kazue Kato. The story revolves around Rin Okumura, a teenager who discovers he and his twin brother Yukio are the sons of Satan, born from a human woman, and he is the i ...
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* Shiro, is a supporting character in ''
Sewayaki Kitsune no Senko-san
is a Japanese web manga series written and illustrated by Rimukoro. It has been serialized online via Kadokawa Shoten's Comic Newtype website since October 2017 and has been collected in eleven ''tankōbon'' volumes. An anime television series ...
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* Shiro Miyata, a character in the PlayStation 2 horror/stealth video game ''
Forbidden Siren
known as ''Forbidden Siren'' in the PAL region, is a survival horror stealth game developed by Project Siren, a development team within Japan Studio, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2 in 2003. The game's plot revo ...
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* Shiro Kanzaki, a character and the main antagonist from the Tokusatsu TV series ''
Kamen Rider Ryuki
is a Japanese tokusatsu television series. The twelfth installment in the Kamen Rider Series, it was a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei, and it was shown on TV Asahi from February 3, 2002 to January 19, 2003. The series ...
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Places
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Shiro, Texas
Shiro is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Grimes County, Texas, United States located on State Highway 30 and the Burlington-Rock Island Railroad in east central Grimes County.
Education
Public education in the co ...
, an unincorporated community in Grimes County
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Shirou, Iran
Shur Ab ( fa, شوراب, also Romanized as Shūr Āb and Shūrāb; also known as Sarāb and Shirou) is a village in Saidabad Rural District, in the Central District of Ijrud County, Zanjan Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islam ...
or Shur Ab, a village in Zanjan Province
Other uses
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Shiro (food)
Shiro ( gez, ሽሮ, šəro), also called shiro wat ( am, ሽሮ ወጥ, šəro wäṭ), or tsebhi shiro ( ti, ጸብሒ ሽሮ, ṣäbhi šəro), is a stew served for either lunch or dinner, originating from Ethiopia and Eritrea. An essential pa ...
, an East African stew of chickpeas or broad bean meal
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Shiro (restaurant)
Shiro was a restaurant in Ahakista, County Cork, Ireland. It was a fine dining restaurant that was awarded one Michelin star each year in the period 1996–2001. The Michelin Guide awarded the restaurant the "Red M", indicating 'good food at a re ...
, in Ahakista, County Cork, Ireland
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Shiro Games, a French video game company
* Shiro, a mass of branches in the
mycelium
Mycelium (plural mycelia) is a root-like structure of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching, thread-like hyphae. Fungal colonies composed of mycelium are found in and on soil and many other substrate (biology), substrates. A typical single ...
of a fungus
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Apache Shiro
Apache Shiro (pronounced "sheeroh", a Japanese word for castle ) is an open source software security framework that performs authentication, authorization, cryptography and session management. Shiro has been designed to be an intuitive and easy-t ...
, a software security framework
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Japanese castle
are fortresses constructed primarily of wood and stone. They evolved from the wooden stockades of earlier centuries, and came into their best-known form in the 16th century. Castles in Japan were built to guard important or strategic sites, such ...
See also
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Siro (disambiguation)
{{disambiguation, given name, surname, geo
Japanese masculine given names