Yoshihiro
Yoshihiro is a Japanese masculine given name, and less commonly, a surname. There are dozens of different ways to write the name in kanji.
Some examples of written forms
- 義弘, "justice, vast"
- 義広, "justice, wide"
- 義寛, "justice, generosity"
- 吉弘, "good luck, vast"
- 吉広, "good luck, wide"
- 吉博, "good luck, doctor"
- 善弘, "virtuous, vast"
- 善大, "virtuous, big"
- 善博, "virtuous, doctor"
- 善裕, "virtuous, abundant"
- 芳弘, "virtuous/fragrant, vast"
- 芳広, "virtuous/fragrant, wide"
- 芳博, "virtuous/fragrant, doctor"
- 良弘, "good, vast"
- 良広, "good, wide"
- 良博, "good, doctor"
- 慶弘, "congratulate, vast"
Given name
Notable people with the given name Yoshihiro are listed below. Names are written below in Japanese with the family name first, followed by a space and the given name.Daimyō and samurai
Note: people in this section have their names written with the surname first.- Matsumae Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai
- Ōuchi Yoshihiro, daimyō
- Satomi Yoshihiro, samurai
- Shimazu Yoshihiro, seventeenth head of the Shimazu clan
- Yoshihiro Muneyuki, aka Yoshihiro Kahei, samurai
Sports
Baseball
- Yoshihiro Doi, Japanese baseball pitcher
- Yoshihiro Ito , Japanese baseball pitcher
- Yoshihiro Maru, Japanese baseball player
- Yoshihiro Suzuki is a Japanese baseball pitcher
Football
- Yoshihiro Nakano, Japanese football player
- Yoshihiro Natsuka, Japanese football player
- Yoshihiro Nishida, Japanese football player
- Yoshihiro Shoji, Japanese football player
- Yoshihiro Uchimura, Japanese football player
Professional wrestling
- Yoshihiro Asai, Japanese professional wrestler
- Yoshihiro Momota, Japanese professional wrestler
- Yoshihiro Tajiri, Japanese professional wrestler
- Yoshihiro Takayama, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter
Other
- Yoshihiro Akiyama, Japanese judoka
- Yoshihiro Azuma, Japanese sprinter
- Yoshihiro Fujita , Japanese Greco-Roman wrestler
- Yoshihiro Fujita , Japanese mixed martial artist
- Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Japanese freestyle swimmer
- Yoshihiro Horigome, Japanese sprinter
- Yoshihiro Ito , Japanese racing driver
- Yoshihiro Kitazawa, Japanese speed skater
- Yoshihiro Miyazaki, Japanese ice hockey player
- Yoshihiro Murakami, Japanese modern pentathlete
- Yoshihiro Nakao Japanese mixed martial artist
- Yoshihiro Okumura , Japanese swimmer
- Yoshihiro Onishi, Japanese rower
- Yoshihiro Saito, Japanese gymnast
- Yoshihiro Sato, Japanese professional kickboxer and martial artist
- Yoshihiro Shiga, Japanese handball player
- Yoshihiro Tsumuraya, Japanese cyclist
- Yoshihiro Yasumi, Japanese water polo player
Politics
- Yoshihiro Katayama, Japanese politician, Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications
- Yoshihiro Kawakami, Japanese politician with the Democratic Party of Japan
- Yoshihiro Kawano, Japanese politician with Kōmeitō
- Yoshihiro Murai, Japanese politician with the Liberal Democratic Party, governor of Miyagi Prefecture
- Yoshihiro Seki, Japanese politician with the Liberal Democratic Party
- Yoshihiro Tokugawa, Japanese political figure
Visual arts
- Yoshihiro Fukagawa, Japanese film director
- Yoshihiro Nakamura, Japanese film director
- Yoshihiro Nishimura, Japanese film director
- Yoshihiro Takahashi, Japanese manga artist
- Yoshihiro Tatsuki, Japanese photographer
- Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese manga artist
- Yoshihiro Togashi, Japanese manga artist
Other
- Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama, American philosopher, political economist, and author
- Yoshihiro Hattori, Japanese exchange student who was killed in the United States
- Yoshihiro Inoue, Japanese terrorist and Aum Shinrikyo member who was executed
- Yoshihiro Kawaoka, Japanese virologist, professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Tokyo
- Yoshihiro Narisawa, Japanese chef
- Yoshihiro Tsurumi, Japanese economist, professor of international business at Baruch College of the City University of New York
- Yoshihiro Yasuda, Japanese lawyer and anti-death penalty activist
- Yoshihiro Yonezawa, Japanese manga critic
Surname
- Mitsuyuki Yoshihiro, Japanese football player
- Yoshihiro Kikuhime