Yukio
Yukio is a masculine Japanese given name.
Written forms
Yukio can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples:- 幸夫, "happiness, man"
- 幸生, "happiness, live"
- 幸男, "happiness, man"
- 幸雄, "happiness, male"
- 行夫, "to go, man"
- 行男, "to go, man"
- 行雄, "to go, male"
- 之夫, "of, man"
- 之男, "of, man"
- 之雄, "of, male"
- 由起夫, "reason, to rise, man"
- 由紀夫, "reason, chronicle, man"
- 由記雄, "reason, scribe, male"
- 悠紀夫, "long time, chronicle, man"
- 雪雄, "snow, male"
Notable people with the name
- Yukio Akagariyama, Japanese pocket billiards player
- Yukio Aki, pseudonym of Akiyuki Nosaka, Japanese novelist, singer, lyricist, and politician
- Yukio Aoshima, Japanese politician who was Governor of Tokyo
- Yukio Arai, Japanese baseball player
- Yukio Araki, youngest-known Japanese Kamikaze pilot killed in World War II
- Yukio Edano, Japanese politician
- Yukio Endō, Japanese gymnast
- Yukio Futatsugi, Japanese video game developer
- Yukio Furuyama, Japanese equestrian
- Yukio Hashi, Japanese popular singer
- Yukio Hatoyama, Japanese Prime Minister
- Yukio Hattori, Japanese cook and television presenter
- Yukio Horigome, Japanese lawyer
- Yukio Iketani, Japanese gymnast
- Yukio Jitsukawa, Japanese politician
- Yukio Kagayama, Japanese motorcycle racer
- Yukio Kasahara, Japanese soldier
- Yukio Kasaya, Japanese ski jumper
- Yukio Matsuda, Japanese rower
- Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer
- Yukio Motoki, Japanese rugby football player
- Yukio Ninagawa, Japanese theatre director
- Yukio Odagiri, Japanese boxer
- Yukio Okutsu, Hawaiian soldier who won the US Congressional Medal of Honor
- Yukio Ozaki, Japanese politician
- Yukio Ozaki (artist) Japanese-born American visual artist
- Yukio Peter, Nauruan weightlifter
- Rohō Yukio, Russian sumo wrestler
- Yukio Sakaguchi, Japanese mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
- Yukio Segawa, Japanese boxer
- Yukio Seki, Japanese naval aviator who led the first official kamikaze attack
- Yukio Shimoda, American actor
- Yukio Shmull, Palauan politician
- Yukio Tabuchi, Japanese photographer
- Yukio Takeuchi, Japanese Supreme Court justice
- Yukio Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
- Yukio Tani, Japanese judoka
- Yukio Tomioka, Japanese politician
- Yukio Tsuchiya, Japanese musician
- Yukio Yamaji, Japanese murderer
- Yukio Yung, pseudonym of Terry Burrows, English writer and musician
Fictional characters
- Yukio, a heroine in the X-Men comics
- Yukio, female character in the Eric Van Lustbader novel, The Ninja
- Yukio Haibara in the anime Mahoraba
- Yukio Mashimi in the anime Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Yukio Oikawa in the anime Digimon
- Yukio Tanaka in the manga Beck
- Yukio Okumura, the twin character of the main protagonist Rin Okumura from the anime/manga, Blue Exorcist
- Yukio Washimine, a character from the anime/manga, Black Lagoon
- Yukio Tonegawa, one of the main antagonists in the anime/manga, Kaiji
- Yukio Hirayama, also known as "Fake Akagi", a character from the anime/manga, Akagi
- Yukio Hidaka, a character from the anime ''Gundam Build Divers''
Other
- 5513 Yukio, asteroid
- "Death and Night and Blood ", a song by The Stranglers from ''Black and White''