Daisuke
Daisuke is a common masculine Japanese given name.
Written forms
Daisuke can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:- 大輔, "big, assist"
- 大介, "big, mediate"
- 大祐, "big, bless"
- 大助, "big, help"
- 大典, "big, law/rule/ceremony"
Manga artists
- Daisuke Higuchi, a Japanese female manga artist best known for her work on Whistle!
- Daisuke Igarashi, a Japanese manga artist known for his bold, detailed art style and innovative storytelling
- Daisuke Moriyama, a Japanese manga artist best known for creating the Chrono Crusade series
Sportspeople
- Daisuke Arakawa, Japanese long jumper
- Daisuke Ejima, Japanese Paralympic swimmer
- Daisuke Houki, Japanese water polo player
- Daisuke Ikeshima, retired Japanese race walker
- Daisuke Kataoka, Japanese golfer
- Daisuke Maeda, Japanese Paralympic swimmer
- Daisuke Matsuzaka, retired Japanese professional baseball pitcher
- Daisuke Murakami (snowboarder),, Japanese snowboarder who competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Daisuke Naito, retired Japanese professional boxer
- Daisuke Nakajima, retired Japanese racing driver
- Daisuke Nakata, Japanese trampolinist who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Daisuke Obara, Japanese ice hockey player
- Daisuke Ohata,, Japanese rugby player
- Daisuke Usami,, Japanese volleyball player
Football players
- Daisuke Ichikawa, Japanese football player who plays as a defender and midfielder for the Fujieda MYFC team
- Daisuke Ishizu, Japanese football player
- Daisuke Kanzaki, Japanese footballer
- Daisuke Kikuchi, Japanese footballer
- Daisuke Matsui, Japanese footballer who plays for Lechia Gdańsk of Ekstraklasa in Poland
- Daisuke Nakamori, Japanese footballer and manager
- Daisuke Nasu, Japanese football player who plays for the Urawa Red Diamonds
- Daisuke Nishiguchi, Japanese footballer
- Daisuke Oku, Japanese former football player
- Daisuke Sakata,, Japanese football player who plays for Avispa Fukuoka in the J. League
- Daisuke Takahashi (footballer), Japanese footballer
Skaters
- Daisuke Murakami (figure skater), Japanese figure skater
- Daisuke Takahashi, Japanese figure skater
Wrestlers
- Daisuke Harada, professional wrestler signed to Pro Wrestling Noah
- Daisuke Ikeda, professional wrestler competing in the Independent circuit in Japan
- Daisuke Sasaki, professional wrestler
- Daisuke Sekimoto, professional wrestler
- Daisuke Tochiazuma, retired sumo wrestler
Actors & voice actors
- Daisuke Gōri, Japanese voice actor, actor and narrator
- Daisuke Hirakawa, Japanese voice actor
- Daisuke Kishio, Japanese voice actor
- Daisuke Nakamura (actor), Japanese voice actor
- Daisuke Namikawa, Japanese voice actor
- Daisuke Nakagawa, Japanese actor and model
- Daisuke Ono, Japanese voice actor well known for voicing Sebastian Michaelis in the anime adaptation of Black Butler and Jotaro Kujo in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
- Daisuke Sakaguchi, Japanese voice actor affiliated with Aoni Production
- Daisuke Tsuji, Japanese-American actor and voice actor
Other
- Daisuke Amaya, Japanese independent game developer
- Daisuke Asakura, Japanese pop artist, songwriter and producer
- Daisuke Ban, Japanese actor
- Daisuke Enomoto, Japanese businessman and former livedoor executive
- Daisuke Inoue, Japanese businessman who invented Karaoke
- Daisuke Inoue, Japanese singer, composer and multi-instrumentist
- Daisuke Ishiwatari, Japanese video game developer and musician
- Daisuke Katagami, Japanese shogi player
- Daisuke Katō, Japanese actor
- Daisuke Kobayashi, Japanese basketball player
- Daisuke Matsumoto (politician), Japanese politician
- Daisuke Miyagawa, Japanese comedian and actor
- Daisuke Murakawa, Japanese professional Go player
- Daisuke Nakagawa, Japanese shogi player
- Daisuke Nakagawa, Japanese actor
- Daisuke Nakamura (fighter), Japanese mixed martial artist
- Daisuke Namba, Japanese student who tried to assassinate Hirohito in 1923
- Daisuke Shima, Japanese actor
- Daisuke Suzuki, Japanese shogi player
- Daisuke Takahashi (mathematician), Japanese mathematician
- Daisuke Tsuda (musician), vocalist of the Japanese band Maximum the Hormone
- Daisuke Tsuda (journalist), Japanese IT, music journalist, and writer
- Daisuke Ueda, Japanese male model
- Daisuke Watanabe, Japanese video game scenario writer
- Daisuke Watanabe (actor), Japanese stage/screen/TV actor
- Daisuke Yokota, Japanese photographer
- Daisuke Yokoyama, Japanese singer and actor
Fictional characters
- Daisuke Aoki, in the manga Kodomo no Jikan
- Daisuke Aramaki, from the manga Ghost in the Shell
- Daisuke Aurora, from Heat Guy J.
- Daisuke Hayami, from the anime Rockman.exe NT Warrior
- Daisuke Hyuuga, from the anime Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star
- Daisuke Jigen, from Lupin III manga
- Kamen Rider Drake, from Kamen Rider Kabuto
- Daisuke Motomiya, from Digimon
- Daisuke Niwa, of manga and anime series, D.N.Angel
- Daisuke Serizawa, eyepatch-wearing character in Godzilla
- Daisuke, from the film Urduja
- Daisuke, from the film The Grudge 3
- Daisuke Izumo, from the tokusatsu series, Ninja Captor
- Daisuke Umon, from the anime/manga series, UFO Robot Grendizer
- Daisuke Kanbe, from anime series The Millionaire Detective Balance: Unlimited
- Daisuke Ido, from the manga Battle Angel Alita
- Daisuke, from the game Mouthwashing
- Daisuke, from the dating sim game ''Date Everything!''