Hiroshi


Hiroshi 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

  • Hiroshi, Japanese comedian
  • Hiroshi Abe, multiple people
  • Hiroshi Abe, Japanese actor
  • Hiroshi Abe, Japanese astronomer
  • Hiroshi Abe, Japanese war criminal
  • Hiroshi Amano, Japanese physicist, engineer, Nobel Prize winner
  • Hiroshi Ando, Japanese screenwriter and film director
  • Hiroshi Arakawa, Japanese baseball player
  • Hiroshi Aramata, Japanese author, polymath, critic, translator
  • Hiroshi Fujioka, Japanese actor
  • Hiroshi Fujiwara, Japanese musician, trendsetter, producer, and designer
  • Hiroshi Hanawa, Japanese handball player
  • Hiroshi Hara, multiple people
  • Hiroshi Hashimoto, multiple people
  • Hiroshi Honda, multiple people
  • Hiroshi Hori, Japanese ice hockey player
  • Hiroshi Ibusuki, Japanese footballer
  • Hiroshi Inaba, Japanese bobsledder
  • Hiroshi Inagaki, Japanese film director
  • Hiroshi Ichihara, Japanese footballer
  • Hiroshi Inomata, Japanese diplomat
  • Hiroshi Inose, Japanese electrical engineer
  • Hiroshi Inoue, Japanese lepidopterist
  • Hiroshi Inoue, Japanese botanist
  • Hiroshi Itagaki, Japanese ski jumper
  • Hiroshi Ito, multiple people
  • Hiroshi Itsuki, Japanese enka singer
  • Hiroshi Iwata, Japanese golfer
  • Hiroshi Kaino, Japanese professional baseball player
  • Hiroshi Kajiyama, multiple people
  • Hiroshi Kamiya, Japanese voice actor
  • Hiroshi Kamiya, Japanese shogi player
  • Hiroshi Kashiwagi, American poet, playwright and actor
  • Hiroshi Kato, Japanese footballer and manager
  • Hiroshi Kato, Japanese aikidoka
  • Hiroshi Katsuno, Japanese actor
  • Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Japanese actor
  • Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Japanese video game composer
  • Hiroshi Kawashima, Japanese boxer
  • Hiroshi Kimura, Japanese businessman
  • Hiroshi Kitadani, Japanese singer
  • Hiroshi Kobayashi, Japanese shogi player
  • Hiroshi Kobayashi, Japanese shogi player
  • Hiroshi Kume, Japanese announcer and television presenter
  • Hiroshi Lockheimer, a Japanese German software engineer and one of the founding members of the Android team at Google
  • Hiroshi Machii, Japanese freestyle skier
  • Hiroshi Masuoka, multiple people
  • Hiroshi Matsumoto, multiple people
  • Hiroshi Matsunobu, Japanese gymnast
  • Hiroshi Matsuura, Japanese ice hockey player
  • Hiroshi Mikami, Japanese actor
  • Hiroshi Mikitani, President and CEO of Rakuten
  • Hiroshi Mitsuzuka, Japanese politician
  • Hiroshi Miura, Japanese swimmer
  • Hiroshi Miyamoto, Japanese shogi player
  • Hiroshi H. Miyamura, United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
  • Hiroshi Miyauchi, Japanese actor
  • Hiroshi Mori, multiple people
  • Heath, better known as Heath, Japanese musician
  • Hiroshi Moriyasu, Japanese footballer
  • Hiroshi Murakami, Japanese jazz drummer
  • Hiroshi Nagano Japanese singer, a member of boy band V6
  • Hiroshi Naganuma, Japanese shogi player
  • Hiroshi Nagashima, Japanese boxer
  • Hiroshi Nakada, Mayor of Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
  • Hiroshi Nakamura, multiple people
  • Hiroshi Nanami, Japanese football player
  • Hiroshi Narahara, Japanese baseball player
  • Hiroshi Neko, Japanese comedian
  • Hiroshi Nishikiori, Japanese director
  • Hiroshi Ogawa, Japanese baseball player and convicted murderer
  • Hiroshi Okamura, Japanese mathematician
  • Hiroshi Okazaki, Japanese shogi player
  • Hirosi Ooguri, Japanese theoretical physicist
  • Hiroshi Ōnogi, Japanese screenwriter and novelist
  • Hiroshi Ōshima, Japanese general and diplomat
  • Hiroshi Ōtake, Japanese voice actor
  • Hiroshi Saito, Japanese basketball player
  • Hiroshi Saito, Japanese diplomat
  • Hiroshi Saito, Japanese footballer
  • Hiroshi Saitō, Japanese politician from Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture
  • Hiroshi Saito, Japanese mathematician
  • Hiroshi Saitō, Japanese politician from Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture
  • Hiroshi Saito, Japanese pentathlete
  • Hiroshi Saito, Japanese rower
  • Hiroshi Sakamoto, Japanese swimmer
  • Hiroshi Sasagawa, Japanese director of several anime and manga series
  • Hiroshi Sato, Japanese curler and curling coach
  • Hiroshi Seko, Japanese screenwriter
  • Hiroshi Shibutani, Japanese table tennis player
  • Hiroshi Shima, pen name of Kaoru Kishiue, Japanese writer
  • Hiroshi Shimizu, multiple people
  • Hiroshi Shirokuma, Japanese voice actor
  • Hiroshi Suzuki, multiple people
  • Hiroshi Tachi, Japanese actor
  • Hiroshi Takahashi, Japanese architect
  • Hiroshi Takahashi, Japanese manga artist
  • Hiroshi Takahashi, Japanese table tennis player
  • Hiroshi Takemura, Japanese voice actor
  • Hiroshi Takeya, a professor and physician in Japan
  • Hiroshi Tamaki, Japanese television presenter
  • Hiroshi Tamaki, Japanese actor
  • Hiroshi Tanahashi, Japanese professional wrestler
  • Hiroshi Tanaka, Japanese figure skater and coach
  • Hiroshi Tanaka, Japanese high jumper
  • Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese filmmaker
  • Hiroshi Toriba, Japanese rower
  • Hiroshi Tsuburaya, Japanese actor
  • Hiroshi Udagawa, Japanese archaeologist and anthropologist
  • Hiroshi Wajima, former Yokozuna in sumo
  • Hiroshi Watanabe, multiple people
  • Hiroshi Yamada, Japanese politician
  • Yamakawa Hiroshi, samurai, politician and educator
  • Hiroshi Yamamoto, Japanese archer
  • Hiroshi Yamamoto, Japanese politician
  • Hiroshi Yamamoto, Japanese shogi player
  • Hiroshi Yamamura, Japanese naval officer
  • Hiroshi Yamao, Japanese cyclist
  • Hiroshi Yamato, Japanese professional wrestler
  • Hiroshi Yamauchi, former president of Nintendo
  • Hiroshi Yamazaki, Japanese photographer
  • Hiroshi Yamazaki, Japanese weightlifter
  • Hiroshi Yoshikawa, Japanese economist
  • Hiroshi Yoshimura, Japanese musician and composer
  • Hiroshi Yuki, Japanese author and computer programmer

    People with the surname

  • Sandro Hiroshi, Japanese-Brazilian footballer

    Fictional characters

  • Hiroshi, the protagonist of Dokonjō Gaeru
  • Hiroshi, known in English as Ritchie, a character in the Pokémon anime
  • Hiroshi, a character in Ranma ½, one of Ranma's two friends, the other being Daisuke
  • Hiroshi, 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, 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, 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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