is a common masculine Japanese given name. It can also be transliterated as Hirosi.
Possible writings
Hiroshi 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:
*浩, "meaning"
*汎
*弘,
*宏,
*寛,
*洋,
*博,
*博一,
*博司,
*博史,
*弘詩,
*大嗣,
*博司,
*博史,
*弘詩,
*大嗣,
People with the name
*, Japanese comedian
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Hiroshi Abe (disambiguation) Hiroshi Abe is the name of:
People
* Hiroshi Abe (actor) (born 1964), Japanese model and actor
* Hiroshi Abe (astronomer) (born 1958), Japanese amateur astronomer affiliated with the Yatsuka Observatory
* Hiroshi Abe (war criminal)
Hiroshi Abe ( ...
, multiple people
*, Japanese actor
*, Japanese astronomer
*
Hiroshi Abe (war criminal)
Hiroshi Abe (born c. 1922) was a Japanese soldier and a repenting war criminal. As a first lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army's Fifth Rail Regiment during World War II, he supervised construction of the Burma Railway at Songkurai. Over twe ...
(born 1922), Japanese soldier
*, Japanese screenwriter and film director
*, Japanese baseball player
*, Japanese actor
*, Japanese handball player
*
Hiroshi Hara (disambiguation) Hiroshi Hara may refer to:
* Hiroshi Hara (architect) (born 1936), Japanese architect
* Hiroshi Hara (botanist) (1911–1986), Japanese botanist
* Hiroshi Hara (composer) (1933–2002), Japanese composer
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, multiple people
*
Hiroshi Hashimoto (disambiguation), multiple people
*
Hiroshi Honda (disambiguation), multiple people
*, Japanese ice hockey player
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese bobsledder
*, Japanese film director
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese diplomat
*, Japanese electrical engineer
*, Japanese lepidopterist
*, Japanese bryologist
*, Japanese ski jumper
*
Hiroshi Ito (disambiguation) Hiroshi Ito or Hiroshi Itō may refer to:
* (born 1933), voice actor born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
* Hiroshi Itō (), IBM Fellow and co-inventor of chemically amplified photoresist
A photoresist (also known simply as a resist) is a light- ...
, multiple people
*, Japanese enka singer
*, Japanese golfer
*, Japanese professional baseball player
*
Hiroshi Kajiyama (disambiguation) Hiroshi Kajiyama may refer to:
* Hiroshi Kajiyama (politician) (born 1955), Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party
* Hiroshi Kajiyama (gymnast) (born 1953), Japanese former gymnast
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, multiple people
*, Japanese voice actor
*, Japanese shogi player
*
Hiroshi Kashiwagi (1922–2019), American poet, playwright and actor
*, Japanese footballer and manager
*, Japanese aikidoka
*, Japanese actor
*, Japanese actor
*, Japanese video game composer
*, Japanese boxer
*, Japanese businessman
*, Japanese singer
*, Japanese shogi player
*
Hiroshi Kobayashi (shogi, born 1976)
is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 7- dan.
Promotion history
Kobayashi's promotion history is as follows:
* 6-kyū
is a Japanese term used in modern martial arts as well as in tea ceremony, flower arranging, Go, shogi, ac ...
, Japanese shogi player
*, Japanese announcer and television presenter
*
Hiroshi Lockheimer, a Japanese German software engineer and one of the founding members of the Android team at Google
*, Japanese freestyle skier
*
, multiple people
*
Hiroshi Matsumoto (disambiguation), multiple people
*, Japanese gymnast
*, Japanese ice hockey player
*, Japanese actor
*, President and CEO of
Rakuten
*, Japanese politician
*, Japanese swimmer
*, Japanese shogi player
*, Japanese actor
*
Hiroshi H. Miyamura
Hiroshi H. Miyamura (October 6, 1925 – November 29, 2022) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the United States military's highest award for valor, for his actions during the Korean War.
He was one of the las ...
(1925–2022), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
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Hiroshi Mori (disambiguation) Hiroshi Mori may refer to:
*, Japanese amateur astronomer
*, Japanese writer and engineer
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, multiple people
*, better known as Heath, Japanese musician
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese jazz drummer
* Japanese singer, a member of boy band
V6
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Hiroshi Naganuma
is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 8-dan.
Early life
Naganuma was born on February 8, 1965, in Gifu Prefecture. He entered the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice school at the rank of 5-kyū in 1979 under the guidance of shogi p ...
, Japanese shogi player
*, Japanese boxer
*, Mayor of Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
*, Japanese football player
*, Japanese baseball player
*, Japanese comedian
*, Japanese director
*, Japanese former baseball player and convicted murderer
*, Japanese shogi player
*, Japanese theoretical physicist
*, Japanese screenwriter and novelist
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Hiroshi Ōshima, Japanese general and diplomat
*, Japanese voice actor
*, Japanese basketball player
*, Japanese diplomat
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese politician from Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture
*, Japanese mathematician
*, Japanese politician from Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture
*, Japanese modern pentathlete
*, Japanese rower
*, Japanese swimmer
*, Japanese director of several anime and manga series
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese curler and curling coach
*, Japanese screenwriter
*, Japanese table tennis player
*, Japanese voice actor
*, Japanese voice actor
*, pen name of Kaoru Kishiue, Japanese writer
*
Hiroshi Shimizu (disambiguation), multiple people
*
Hiroshi Suzuki (disambiguation), multiple people
*, Japanese actor
*, Japanese architect
*, Japanese manga artist
*, Japanese table tennis player
*, Japanese voice actor
*
Hiroshi Takeya, a professor and physician in Japan
*, Japanese television presenter
*, Japanese actor
*
Hiroshi Tanahashi
is a Japanese professional wrestler. He works primarily for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW).
Widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, his accolades in NJPW include a record setting eight reigns as IWGP Heavywei ...
(棚橋弘至, born 1976), Japanese professional wrestler
*, Japanese figure skater and coach
*, Japanese high jumper
*, Japanese filmmaker
*, Japanese rower
*, Japanese actor
*, Japanese archaeologist and anthropologist
*, former Yokozuna in sumo
*Hiroshi Watanabe (disambiguation), multiple people
*, Japanese politician
*, Japanese archer
*, Japanese politician
*Hiroshi Yamamoto (shogi), Japanese shogi player
*, Japanese naval officer
*, Japanese cyclist
*, Japanese professional wrestler
*, former president of Nintendo
*, Japanese photographer
*, Japanese weightlifter
*, Japanese economist
*, Japanese musician and composer
*, Japanese author (of books such as Math Girls) and computer programmer
People with the surname
* Sandro Hiroshi, Japanese-Brazilian footballer
Fictional characters
*Hiroshi (Gaeru), the protagonist of ''Dokonjō Gaeru''
*Hiroshi (Pokémon), known in English as Ritchie (Pokémon), Ritchie, a character in the ''Pokémon'' anime
*Hiroshi (Ranma), a character in ''Ranma ½'', one of Ranma's two friends, the other being Daisuke
*Hiroshi (Sesame Street), an aspiring artist on ''Sesame Street'' played by Gedde Watanabe in the late 1980s/Early 1990s
*Hiroshi Abe, a character in ''Shonan Junai Gumi''
*Hiroshi Agasa (''Herschel Agasa'' in the English anime), in ''Case Closed: Detective Conan''
*Hiroshi Akiba, a character from the manga ''Inubaka''
*Hiroshi Ichikawa, a character from ''Wild Strikers''
*Hiroshi Ichikawa, a character in the Manga and anime ''Kaibutsu-kun''
*Hiroshi Kochatani, a character in ''Great Teacher Onizuka''
*Hiroshi Kubo, a character from the novel ''Shiosai''
*Hiroshi Kuronaga, Boy #9 in ''Battle Royale (novel), Battle Royale''
*Hiroshi Matsumoto, a character in ''Miss Machiko''
*Hiroshi Morenos, a character from the anime ''Michiko & Hatchin''
*Hiroshi Mochizuki, a character in ''Kamen Rider ZO''
*Hiroshi Nakano (Gravitation), Hiroshi Nakano, a character in the Manga and anime ''Gravitation''
*Hiroshi Nitta, a character in ''Denjin Zaborger''
*Hiroshi Nohara (born c. 1960), father of the protagonist, Shinnosuke, in ''Crayon Shin-chan''
*Hiroshi Sakura, the father of the protagonist, Momoko Maruko, in ''Chibi Maruko-chan''
*Hiroshi Uchiyamada, a character in ''Great Teacher Onizuka''
*Hiroshi Udagawa, a fictional businessman in the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours''
*Hiroshi Yushima, a character in ''Digimon Savers''
*Hiroshi Sato, Superior businessman, Equalist sympathizer, and father to Asami Sato in ''The Legend of Korra''
*Hiroshi, the main protagonist of the survival horror game ''Ao Oni''
*Hiroshi, the main protagonist of the ''Durarara!''
*Hiroshi Hirai, a character in ''Denshi Sentai Denziman''
*Hiroshi Fukuda, a character in ''Kuroko no Basuke''
*Hiroshi Fumihiro, from ''Initial D''
*Hiroshi Hayashi, a character in ''Yakuza (video game), Yakuza''
{{wiktionary, Hiroshi
Japanese masculine given names