Yukio is a masculine Japanese name, Japanese given name.

Possible writings

Yukio can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples: *幸夫, "happiness, man" *幸生, "happiness, live" *幸男, "happiness, man" *幸雄, "happiness, male" *行夫, "to go, man" *行男, "to go, man" *行雄, "to go, male" *之夫, "of, man" *之男, "of, man" *之雄, "of, male" *由起夫, "reason, to rise, man" *由紀夫, "reason, chronicle, man" *由記雄, "reason, scribe, male" *悠紀夫, "long time, chronicle, man" *雪雄, "snow, male" The name can also be written in hiragana ゆきお or katakana ユキオ.

Notable people with the name

*, Japanese pocket billiards player *, pseudonym of Akiyuki Nosaka (野坂昭如), Japanese novelist, singer, lyricist, and politician *, Japanese politician who was Governor of Tokyo *, Japanese baseball player *, youngest-known Japanese Kamikaze pilot killed in World War II *, Japanese politician *, Japanese gymnast *, Japanese author and architectural photographer *, Japanese video game developer *, Japanese equestrian *, Japanese popular singer *, Japanese Prime Minister *, Japanese cook and television presenter *, Japanese chemist *, Japanese lawyer *, Japanese gymnast *, Japanese city mayor of Otsuki in the Yamanashi Prefecture *, Japanese actor *, Japanese politician *, Japanese motorcycle racer *, Japanese railway bureaucracy *, Japanese anime director *, Japanese soldier *, Japanese ski jumper *, Japanese rower *, Japanese writer *, Japanese rugby football player *, Japanese theatre director * (baseball), Japanese baseball player *, Japanese boxer * Yukio Okutsu (1921–2003), Hawaiian soldier who won the US Congressional Medal of Honor *, Japanese politician * Yukio Peter (born 1984), Nauruan weightlifter *, Russian sumo wrestler *, Japanese mixed martial artist and professional wrestler *, Japanese boxer *, Japanese naval aviator who led the first official kamikaze attack *Yukio Shimoda (1921–1981), American actor *, Japanese photographer *, Japanese Supreme Court justice *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese judoka *, Japanese novelist *, Japanese politician *, Japanese musician *, Japanese chemist *, Japanese murderer * Yukio Yung, a pseudonym of Terry Burrows, English writer and musician

Fictional characters

*Yukio (comics), Yukio (雪緒), a heroine in the X-Men comics *Yukio, female character in the Eric Van Lustbader novel, The Ninja (novel), The Ninja * (Johnny) in the anime ''Mahoraba'' *Yukio Mashimi in the anime ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' * in the anime ''Digimon'' * in the manga ''Beck (manga), Beck'' *, the twin character of the main protagonist Rin Okumura from the anime/manga, ''Blue Exorcist'' *, a character from the anime/manga, ''Black Lagoon'' *, one of the main antagonists in the anime/manga, ''Kaiji (manga), Kaiji'' *, also known as "Fake Akagi", a character from the anime/manga, ''Akagi (manga), Akagi''

Other

*5513 Yukio, asteroid *"Death and Night and Blood (Yukio)", a song by The Stranglers from ''Black and White (The Stranglers album), Black and White'' {{given name Japanese masculine given names