Ken'ichi
Ken'ichi or Kenichi is a masculine Japanese given name.
Written forms
Ken'ichi can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:- 賢一, "wise, one"
- 健一, "healthy, one"
- 憲一, "constitution, one"
- 謙一, "humble, one"
- 建一, "build, one"
- 研一, "polish, one"
- 兼一, "concurrently, one"
People with the name
- Kenichi Abe, Japanese World War II flying ace
- Ken'ichi Chen, Japanese chef and restaurateur
- Kenichi Ego, Japanese football player
- Kenichi Endō, Japanese actor
- Ken'ichi Enomoto, Japanese singing comedian
- Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist
- Kenichi Furuya, Japanese ice hockey player
- Ken'ichi Kasai, Japanese anime director
- Keni'chi Kōbō, former sumo wrestler
- Kenichi Konishi, Japanese field hockey player
- Kenichi Hagiwara, Japanese actor and lead singer
- Kenichi Horie, Japanese solo yachtsman
- Kenichi Ikezoe, Japanese jockey
- Kenichi Kaga, Japanese footballer for Júbilo Iwata
- Ken-ichi Kimura (architect), Japanese architect
- Kenichi Kimura (rugby union), Japanese rugby union player
- Kenichi Konishi, Japanese field hockey player
- Kenichi Kuboya, Japanese golfer
- Kenichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor
- Kenichi Mikawa, Japanese singer
- Ken'ichi Mishima, Japanese philosopher
- Kenichi Mizuno, Japanese politician
- Kenichi Momoyama, first son of Prince Ui of Korea by Lady Jeong
- Kenichi Mori, Japanese footballer for Mito HollyHock
- Luke Kenichi Muto, Japanese Anglican bishop
- Kenichi Nishi, Japanese video game designer
- Kenichi Ogata (voice actor), Japanese voice actor
- Kenichi Ogawa, Japanese boxer
- Kenichi Ono, Japanese voice actor and actor
- Kenichi Ohmae, Japanese business and corporate strategist
- Kenichi Okada, rhythm guitarist of Japanese band MERRY
- Kenichi Sasaki, Japanese handball player
- Kenichi Shimokawa, Japanese football goalkeeper
- Kenichi Shinoda, Japanese yakuza boss of Yamaguchi-gumi
- Kenichi Sone, Japanese internment camp commander and war criminal
- Kenichi Sonoda, manga artist and anime character designer
- Kenichi Suzuki (disambiguation), multiple people
- Kenichi Suzumura, Japanese voice actor
- Kenichi Tago, Japanese professional badminton player
- Kenichi Takahashi, Japanese long-distance runner
- Ken-ichi Ueda, Japanese scientist
- Kenichi Uemura, Japanese football player
- Kenichi Umezawa, Japanese fencer
- Kenichi Yamada, Japanese golfer
- Kenichi Yamakawa, Japanese author and rock musician
- Kenichi Yamamoto (yakuza), founder of the Yamaken-gumi yakuza gang
- Ken'ichi Yoshida (literary scholar), Japanese author and literary critic
- Kenichi Yoshida (animator), Japanese animator and character designer
- Kenichi Yumoto, Japanese freestyle wrestler
Fictional characters
- Kenichi, the main character of the 2001 anime film Metropolis
- List of [Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple characters#Kenichi Shirahama|Kenichi Shirahama], the main character of the manga series Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple
- Kenichi Mitsuba, a character from Ninja Hattori-kun franchise.
- Kenichi Natsuki, a character from ''Re:Zero - Starting Life in Another World''