Tōru (given name)
Tōru is a masculine Japanese given name.
Written forms
Tōru can be expressed with several kanji. Some examples:- 徹, "penetrate"
- 透, "transparent"
- 享, "enjoy"
- 亨, "smoothly"
- 暢, "freely"
Notable people with the name
- Toru Abe, Japanese actor
- Toru Arakawa, Japanese karateka
- Toru Arase, Japanese water polo player
- Tōru Doi, Japanese politician
- Tooru Fujisawa, Japanese manga artist
- Tōru Furusawa, Japanese voice actor
- Tōru Furuya, Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator
- Tōru Hashimoto, Governor of Osaka Prefecture
- Toru Hatsukade, American electrochemist
- Toru Itabashi, Japanese ice hockey player
- Toru Iwatani, Japanese video game designer
- Toru Iwaya, Japanese mezzotint engraver and painter
- Kakizoe Tōru, Japanese former sumo wrestler
- Toru Kobayashi, Japanese astronomer
- Tōru Matsumoto, Japanese badminton player
- Tōru Nara, Japanese voice actor
- Tōru Nimura, Japanese baseball player
- Tōru Ōhira, Japanese voice actor and narrator
- Toru Okajima, Japanese ice hockey player
- Tōru Ōkawa, Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator
- Toru "Tiger" Okoshi, Japanese-American trumpet player
- Tōru Shinohara, Japanese manga artist
- Toru Takahashi (baseball), Japanese baseball player
- Toru Takahashi (Internet), Japanese computer network researcher and businessman
- Toru Takahashi (racing driver), Japanese racing driver
- Toru Takasuka, Japanese software entrepreneur
- Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory
- Toru Terasawa, Japanese long-distance runner
- Tōru Toida, Japanese politician
- Toru Toyoda, A perpetrator of the Tokyo subway sarin attack
- Toru Yamashita, Japanese guitarist
- Toru Yano, Japanese professional wrestler
- Tooru Yonaha, Japanese folk singer
- Toru Yonezawa, Japanese tennis player
- Toru Yoshida, Japanese footballer and manager
- Toru Tsuzaki, Japanese Researcher
Fictional characters
- Tohru, in Jackie Chan Adventures
- Tohru, a character in Kare First Love
- Toru, also known as Todd Snap, in the Pokémon anime
- Toru, a character in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, part 8: JoJolion
- Toru, in Chris Bradford's Young Samurai
- Tooru Amami, in The World God Only Knows
- Toru Asakura, in The Idolmaster Shiny Colors
- Toru Egawa, in Business as Usual, a Finder Series fanfiction by Kadzuki_Fuchoin
- Tōru Hagakure, in My Hero Academia
- Tōru Hikawa, Tory Froid, in MegaMan NT Warrior
- Tohru Honda, in Fruits Basket
- Tōru Ichii, in A Channel
- Toru Ishikawa in Horimiya
- Toru Kazama, in Crayon Shin-chan
- Tohru Kobayashi, the titular draconian servant in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
- Toru Kouno, in Princess Princess
- Tōru Miyamae, in Seiren
- Tohru Mutou, in Shiki
- Tōru Mutsuki, in Tokyo Ghoul
- Toru Narita, in Hot Gimmick
- Tooru Oikawa, in Haikyū!! with the position of captain and setter from Aoba Johsai High
- Toru Okada, in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- Toru Oshikiri, in the series of the same name by Junji Ito
- Tōru Rikiishi, in Ashita no Joe
- Toru Sato, in the game Need for Speed: [Most Wanted (2005 video game)|Need for Speed: Most Wanted]
- Tohru Suidohbashi, of Machine Robo Rescue.
- Tōru Watanabe, in Norwegian Wood
- Tōru Yasunaga, in ''The Decay of the Angel''