Toshio
Toshio is a common masculine Japanese given name.
Written forms
Toshio can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:- 敏夫, "agile, man"
- 敏男, "agile, man"
- 敏雄, "agile, male"
- 俊夫, "sagacious, man"
- 俊雄, "sagacious, male"
- 利生, "advantage, life"
- 寿雄, "long life, male"
- 登志男, "ascend, intention, man"
Notable people with the name
- Toshio Fukumoto, Japanese water polo player
- Toshio Furukawa, Japanese voice actor
- Toshio Gotō, Japanese film director
- Toshio Iwai, Japanese interactive media and installation artist
- Toshio Iwatani, Japanese footballer
- Toshio Jingu, Japanese fencer
- Toshio Kakei, Japanese actor
- Toshio Kimura, Japanese politician
- Toshio Maeda, Japanese manga artist
- Toshio Masuda, Japanese film director
- Toshio Matsumoto, Japanese film director
- Toshio Matsumoto (dancer), Japanese dancer and actor
- Toshio Motoya, Japanese writer, publisher and businessman
- Toshio Nakanishi, a Japanese musician and an artist
- Tosiwo Nakayama, first president of the Federated States of Micronesia
- Toshio Odate, Japanese-born American sculptor
- Toshio Ogawa, Japanese politician
- Toshio Shibata, Japanese photographer
- Toshio Shimao, Japanese novelist
- Toshio Suzuki (driver), Japanese racing driver
- Toshio Suzuki (producer), chief producer of the Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli
- Toshio Tamogami, Japanese Air Self-Defense Force career military officer
- Toshio Tosanoumi, Japanese sumo wrestler
- Toshio Ukishima, Japanese politician
- Toshio Takahashi, Japanese water polo player
- Toshio Wakita, Japanese bobsledder
- Toshio Yamada, Japanese politician
- Toshio Yamaguchi, Japanese politician
- Toshio Yamane, Japanese photographer
- Toshio Narahashi, Japanese-born American pharmacologist
Fictional characters
- Toshio Ozaki, a protagonist in the horror novel/manga/anime series Shiki.
- Toshio Saeki (Ju-on), a main antagonist in the Japanese horror series Ju-on
- Toshio Utsumi, a character in the anime and manga series ''Cat's Eye''