Hiroshi Ōtaka

is a common masculine Japanese given name. It can also be transliterated as Hirosi.

Written forms

Hiroshi can be written using different kanji characters. Here are some examples:

*浩, "wide expanse, abundance, vigorous"
*弘, "vast, broad, wide"
*宏, "wide, large"
*寛, "tolerant, leniency, generosity, relax"
*洋, "ocean, sea, foreign, Western style"
*博, "large, wide, wise"
*大, "large, big"
*広志, "wide, broad, spacious" and "intention, plan, resolve, aspire, hopes"
*博司, "large, wide, wise" and "director, official, govt office, rule, administer"
*博史, "large, wide, wise" and "history, chronicle"

People with the name

*, Japanese comedian
*Hiroshi Abe (disambiguation), multiple people
*, Japanese actor
*, Japanese astronomer
* Hiroshi Abe (born 1922), Japanese war criminal
*, Japanese Japanese physicist, engineer, Nobel Prize winner
*, Japanese screenwriter and film director
*, Japanese baseball player
*, Japanese author, polymath, critic, translator
*, Japanese actor
*, Japanese musician, trendsetter, producer, and designer
*, Japanese handball player
*Hiroshi Hara (disambiguation), 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 botanist
*, Japanese ski jumper
*Hiroshi Ito (disambiguation), multiple people
*, Japanese enka singer
*, Japanese golfer
*, Japanese professional baseball player
* Hiroshi Kajiyama (disambiguation), 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), 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
*Hiroshi Masuoka (disambiguation), 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 (1925–2022), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
* Hiroshi Mori (disambiguation), multiple people
*, better known as Heath, Japanese musician
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese jazz drummer
* Japanese singer, a member of boy band V6
* Hiroshi Naganuma, Japanese shogi player
*, Japanese boxer
*, Mayor of Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
*, Japanese football player
*, Japanese baseball player
*, Japanese comedian
*, Japanese director
*, Japanese baseball player and convicted murderer
*Hiroshi Okamura, Japanese mathematician
*, Japanese shogi player
*, Japanese theoretical physicist
*, Japanese screenwriter and novelist
*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 pentathlete
*, Japanese rower
*, Japanese swimmer
*, Japanese director of several anime and manga series
*, Japanese curler and curling coach
*, Japanese screenwriter
*, Japanese table tennis player
*, pen name of Kaoru Kishiue, Japanese writer
*Hiroshi Shimizu (disambiguation), multiple people
*, Japanese voice actor
* 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 (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
*, samurai, politician and educator
*, 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, 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, the main protagonist of the survival horror game ''Ao Oni''
*Hiroshi, a character in '' Durarara!''
*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 Fukuda, a character in ''Kuroko no Basuke''
* Hiroshi Fumihiro, from ''Initial D''
*Hiroshi Hayashi, a character in ''Yakuza''
* Hiroshi Hirai, a character in '' Denshi Sentai Denziman''
*Hiroshi Hoshizora, a character from the anime ''Smile PreCure!''
*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''
*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, 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 Sato, Superior businessman, Equalist sympathizer, and father to Asami Sato in ''The Legend of Korra''
*Hiroshi Tennouji, the main villain in ''Kamen Rider Blade''
*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''

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Japanese masculine given names
Masculine given names