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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 Shir ...
(1621–1638), leader of the Shimabara Rebellion *
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 * Shiro Azumi, Japanese football player 1923–1925 * Shiro Ichinoseki (born 1944), Japanese weightlifter *
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 *
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 *, Japanese artist *
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 *
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 * Shiro Kikuhara (born 1969), Japanese football player *
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 *
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. Career ...
(born 1958), Japanese wrestler *
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 * Shiro Makino (1893–1945), Japanese general at the Battle of Leyte *
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 * Shirō Masamune, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese rower * Shiro Misaki, Japanese football player 1934 * Shirō Miwa, Japanese manga artist * Shiro Miya (1943–2012), Japanese enka singer *
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 Datsun ...
(born 1950), Japanese car designer *
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 *
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, Satosh ...
(born 1957), Japanese music producer and composer *
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 *
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 *
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 *
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 and introduced as the protagonist of the manga series '' X''. Kamui is a young esper who returns to his home, Tokyo, after a six-year absence following his mot ...
, 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 ...
'' * 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 ...
'' * 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 mang ...
'' * Shiro Amada, commander in ''Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team'' * Shirō Emiya, the main character in ''Fate/stay night'' media *
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'' * 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 ...
'' * Shiro, is a supporting character in '' Sewayaki Kitsune no Senko-san'' * Shiro Miyata, a character in the PlayStation 2 horror/stealth video game '' Forbidden Siren'' * 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

* Shiro, Texas, an unincorporated community in Grimes County * Shirou, Iran 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 *
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 * 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 *
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 *
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

* Siro (disambiguation) {{disambiguation, given name, surname, geo Japanese masculine given names