Jiro (given name)
Jirō or Jiro is a stand-alone Japanese given name along with "Tarō", and a common name suffix for males.
Written forms
Jirō can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:- 次郎, "next, son"
- 次朗, "next, melodious"
- 二郎, "second, son"
- 二朗, "second, melodious"
- 治郎, "reign, son"
People
- Jiro (musician), bassist of the Japanese rock band GLAY
- Jiro Aichi, Japanese politician
- Jirō Akagawa, Japanese novelist
- Jiro Akama, Japanese politician
- Jiro Ando, Japanese manga artist
- Jirō Asada, Japanese novelist
- Jiro Hirokawa, Japanese engineer
- Jiro Horikoshi, chief engineer behind many Japanese fighters of WWII
- Jiro Hosotani, Japanese weightlifter
- Jiro Kamiharako, Japanese ski jumper
- Jiro Kikkawa, Japanese Australian ornithologist
- Jiro Manio, Filipino actor
- Jiro Nakano, Japanese composer
- Jiro Ogawa, Japanese ice hockey player
- Jiro Okabe, Japanese politician
- Jiro Ono (chef), chef and owner of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a three-Michelin-starred restaurant
- Jiro Ono (politician), Japanese politician of Your Party
- Jiro Saito (voice actor), Japanese voice actor
- Jiro Saito (businessman), Japanese businessman
- Jiro Wang, Taiwanese actor and singer
Characters
- Jiro (Blue Dragon), a character in the Blue Dragon video game
- Jiro (Kamen Rider) or Garulu, a supporting character in the Kamen Rider Kiva tokusatsu series
- Jiro (Kikaider), the main protagonist in the Android Kikaider tokusatsu series
- Jiro Mochizuki, main protagonist in Black Blood Brothers
- Jiro Ueda, the main character in Trick TV series
- Jiro Shirogane, fantasy persona of Takashi "Shiro" Shirogane in Voltron: Legendary Defender
- Jiro Yamada , the second child of the team called Buster Bros!!! from Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle
- Jiro Yamashita, an idol from ''The Idolmaster SideM''
Other uses
- Jiro, the famed Sakhalin Husky of the 1958 Japanese Antarctica expedition, depicted in the 1983 Japanese film Nankyoku Monogatari; see Taro and Jiro
- Erlang Shen 二郎神 Chinese god