Takashi

Takashi is a masculine Japanese given name.

Written forms

The name Takashi can have multiple different meanings depending on which kanji is used to write it. Possible forms of the name include:

隆 - "prosperous noble"
喬士 - "high, boasting, samurai, gentleman"
崇史 - "adore, revere, chronicler, history"
孝 - "filial piety, serve parents"
貴志
敬

Takashi can also be written in hiragana and/or katakana:

タカシ
たかし

People with the name

Takashi Abe, Japanese shogi player
Takashi Akatsuka, Japanese rugby union player
Takashi Amano, Japanese photographer, aquarist and designer
Takashi Aonishi, Japanese music artist
Takashi Asahina, Japanese conductor
Takashi Dekita, Japanese volleyball player
Takashi Fujii, Japanese singer and comedian
Takashi Hagino, Japanese actor
Takashi Hara, Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan
Takashi Hara (artist), Japanese contemporary artist
Takashi Hasegawa, Japanese electrical engineer and programmer
Takashi Hashiguchi, Japanese manga artist
Takashi Hikino, Japanese economist and educator
Takashi Hiraide, Japanese poet and critic
Takashi "Halo" Hirose, American swimmer
Takashi "Taka" Hirose, Japanese musician and chef
Takashi Iizuka (game designer), Japanese video game director and designer
Takashi Ikenaga, Japanese shogi player
Takashi Ikenoue, Japanese handball player
Takashi Inoue, Japanese actor
Takashi Inoue (author), Japanese public relations practitioner, scholar and theorist
Takashi Inukai, Japanese literature academic
Takashi Ishii (film director), Japanese film director, screenwriter and manga artist
Takashi Ishii (baseball), Japanese baseball pitcher and coach
Takashi Ishimoto, a Japanese swimmer
Takashi Ito, Japanese kickboxer
Takashi Itoyama, Japanese basketball player
Takashi Kakihara, Japanese ice hockey player
Takashi Kanezawa, Japanese shogi player
Takashi Kato, Japanese handball player
Takashi Kashiwabara, Japanese former actor
Takashi Kawamura (politician), Japanese politician
Takashi Kawano, Japanese footballer
Takashi Kimura (disambiguation), multiple people
Takashi Koizumi, Japanese film director
Takashi Koshimoto, Japanese boxer
Takashi Maruyama, Japanese volleyball player
Masuda Takashi, Japanese industrialist, investor, and art collector
Takashi Masuda (computer scientist), Japanese computer scientist
Takashi Masuda (basketball), Japanese basketball player
Takashi Matsuhashi, Japanese cross-country skier
Takashi Matsumoto (disambiguation), multiple people
Takashi Matsunaga, Japanese jazz pianist
Takashi Matsuoka, Japanese-American writer
Takashi Miike, Japanese filmmaker
Takashi Mizuno, Japanese footballer
Takashi Mizunuma, Japanese footballer and manager
Takashi Murakami, Japanese contemporary artist
Takashi Murayama, Japanese rower
Takashi Nagai, Japanese physician and survivor of the Nagasaki bombing
Takashi Nagasaki, Japanese author, manga writer and former editor of manga
Takashi Nagasako, Japanese voice actor
Takashi Nagatsuka, Japanese novelist and poet
Takashi Nagayasu, Japanese politician
Takashi Nakakura, Japanese mixed martial artist
Takashi Nakamura, Japanese animator, and anime director
Takashi Narita, Japanese former volleyball player
Takashi Niigaki, Japanese music teacher
Takashi Okamura (disambiguation), multiple people
Takashi Ono, Japanese gymnast
Takashi Onozuka, Japanese voice actor
Takashi Ozaki, Japanese mountaineer
Takashi Saito, Japanese baseball player
Takashi Saito (footballer), Japanese footballer
Takashi Saito, sumo wrestler who died due to injuries sustained in the Tokitsukaze stable hazing scandal
Takashi Sakai, Japanese general
Takashi Shimizu, Japanese filmmaker
Takashi Shimoda, Japanese footballer
Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor
Takashi Sorimachi, Japanese singer and actor
Takashi Tamura, Japanese sailor
Takashi Tsuburai, Japanese ice hockey player
Takashi Uemoto, Japanese baseball player
Takashi Umeda, Japanese footballer
Takashi Umezawa, Japanese footballer
Takashi Watanabe, Japanese anime director
Takashi Yamaguchi (architect), Japanese architect
Takashi Yamaguchi (actor, born 1936), Japanese actor
Takashi Yanase, author of the picture book series Anpanman
Takashi Yokoyama (swimmer), Japanese swimmer
Takashi Yokoyama (water polo), Japanese water polo player
Takashi Yoshida, better known as Cyber Kong, Japanese professional wrestler
Takashi Yoshida (comedian), Japanese comedian
Takashi Yoshimatsu, Japanese composer
Takashi Yuasa, Japanese lawyer
Ichinojō Takashi, Mongolian sumo wrestler

Fictional characters

Takashi Ayanokoji a character from Pita Ten
Takashi Hayase, a character from The Super Dimension Fortress Macross
Takashi Kawamura (The Prince of Tennis), a character from The Prince of Tennis
Takashi Komuro, a character from Highschool of the Dead
Takashi Kurosawa, a character from The Hitman's Bodyguard
Takashi Morinozuka, a character from Ouran High School Host Club
Takashi Natsume, the title character from Natsume's Book of Friends
Takashi Ryugasaki, a character from Cyber Team in Akihabara
Takashi 'Shiro' Shirogane, a character from Voltron: Legendary Defender
Takashi Sone, a character from Haru yo, Koi
Takashi Takeda, nicknamed "Jumbo", a character from Yotsuba&!
Takashi Yamazaki, a character from Cardcaptor Sakura
Takashi Kovacs, a character from Altered Carbon
Takashi Mitsuhashi, a character from Kyō Kara Ore Wa!!
Takashi Mitsuya, a character from Tokyo Revengers
Takashi Todoroki, a character from Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal
Takashi, a supporting character who goes by the mutant name Tiger Claw in ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''