Hiroshi
{{Infobox given name
| name = Hiroshi
| image= Abe_Hiroshi_from_"Legend_of_the_Demon_Cat"_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2017_(40203798571).jpg
| imagesize=
| caption= Hiroshi Abe, a Japanese actor
| pronunciation= Hí-rò-shí. Can have different pronunciations depending on the language used.
| gender = Male
| meaning = Multiple meanings depending on the kanji used
| region =
| language = Japanese
| origin = Japan
| related names = Hiro, Hiroaki, Hiroki, Hiroko, Hiroka, Hiromi
| footnotes =
}}
{{Nihongo|Hiroshi|ひろし, ヒロシ}} is a common masculine Japanese given name. It can also be transliterated as Hirosi.
Written forms
Hiroshi can be written using different kanji characters. Here are some examples:
- 浩, "wide expanse, abundance, vigorous"
- 弘, "vast, broad, wide"
- 宏, "wide, large"
- 寛, "tolerant, leniency, generosity, relax"
- 洋, "ocean, sea, foreign, Western style"
- 博, "large, wide, wise"
- 大, "large, big"
- 広志, "wide, broad, spacious" and "intention, plan, resolve, aspire, hopes"
- 博司, "large, wide, wise" and "director, official, govt office, rule, administer"
- 博史, "large, wide, wise" and "history, chronicle"
People with the name
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi (owarai)|ヒロシ||born 1972}}, Japanese comedian
- Hiroshi Abe (disambiguation), multiple people
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Abe|阿部 寛||born 1964}}, Japanese actor
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Abe|安部 裕史}}, Japanese astronomer
- Hiroshi Abe (born 1922), Japanese war criminal
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Amano|天野 浩||born 1960}}, Japanese Japanese physicist, engineer, Nobel Prize winner
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Ando|安藤 尋||born 1965}}, Japanese screenwriter and film director
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Arakawa|荒川 博||1930–2016}}, Japanese baseball player
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Aramata|荒俣 宏||born 1947}}, Japanese author, polymath, critic, translator
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Fujioka|藤岡 弘||born 1946}}, Japanese actor
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Fujiwara|藤原 ヒロシ||born 1964}}, Japanese musician, trendsetter, producer, and designer
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Hanawa|花輪 博||born 1950}}, Japanese handball player
- Hiroshi Hara (disambiguation), multiple people
- Hiroshi Hashimoto (disambiguation), multiple people
- Hiroshi Honda (disambiguation), multiple people
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Hori|堀 寛||born 1949}}, Japanese ice hockey player
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Ibusuki|指宿 洋史||born 1990}}, Japanese footballer
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Inaba|稲葉 博志||born 1948}}, Japanese bobsledder
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Inagaki|稲垣 浩||1905–1980}}, Japanese film director
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Ichihara|市原 大嗣||born 1987}}, Japanese footballer
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Inomata|猪俣 弘司}}, Japanese diplomat
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Inose|猪瀬 博||1927–2000}}, Japanese electrical engineer
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Inoue (entomologist)|井上 寛||1917–2008}}, Japanese lepidopterist
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Inoue (bryologist)|井上 浩||1932–1989}}, Japanese botanist
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Itagaki|板垣 宏志||born 1945}}, Japanese ski jumper
- Hiroshi Ito (disambiguation), multiple people
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Itsuki|五木 ひろし||born 1948}}, Japanese enka singer
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Iwata|岩田 寛||born 1981}}, Japanese golfer
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Kaino|甲斐野 央||born 1996}}, Japanese professional baseball player
- Hiroshi Kajiyama (disambiguation), multiple people
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Kamiya|神谷 浩史||born 1975}}, Japanese voice actor
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Kamiya|神谷 広志||born 1961}}, Japanese shogi player
- Hiroshi Kashiwagi (1922–2019), American poet, playwright and actor
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Kato|加藤 寛||born 1951}}, Japanese footballer and manager
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Kato|加藤 弘||1935–2012}}, Japanese aikidoka
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Katsuno|勝野 洋||born 1949}}, Japanese actor
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Kawagachi|川口 浩||1936–1987}}, Japanese actor
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Kawagachi|川口 博史||born 1965}}, Japanese video game composer
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Kawashima|川島 郭志||born 1970}}, Japanese boxer
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Kimura|木村 宏||born 1954}}, Japanese businessman
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Kitadani|きただに ひろし||born 1968}}, Japanese singer
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Kobayashi (shogi, born 1962)|小林 宏}}, Japanese shogi player
- Hiroshi Kobayashi (shogi, born 1976), Japanese shogi player
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Kume|久米 宏||born 1944}}, Japanese announcer and television presenter
- Hiroshi Lockheimer, a Japanese German software engineer and one of the founding members of the Android team at Google
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Machii|待井 寛||born 1966}}, Japanese freestyle skier
- Hiroshi Masuoka (disambiguation), multiple people
- Hiroshi Matsumoto (disambiguation), multiple people
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Matsunobu|松延 博||1915–?}}, Japanese gymnast
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Matsuura|松浦 浩史||born 1968}}, Japanese ice hockey player
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Mikami|三上 博史||born 1962}}, Japanese actor
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Mikitani|三木谷 浩史||born 1965}}, President and CEO of Rakuten
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Mitsuzuka|三塚 博||1927–2004}}, Japanese politician
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Miura|三浦 広司||born 1966}}, Japanese swimmer
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Miyamoto|宮本 広志||born 1986}}, Japanese shogi player
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Miyauchi|宮内 洋||born 1945}}, Japanese actor
- Hiroshi H. Miyamura (1925–2022), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
- Hiroshi Mori (disambiguation), multiple people
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Morie|森江 博||1968–2023}}, better known as Heath, Japanese musician
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Moriyasu|森保 洋||born 1972}}, Japanese footballer
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Murakami|村上 寛||born 1948}}, Japanese jazz drummer
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Nagano|長野 博||born 1972}} Japanese singer, a member of boy band V6
- Hiroshi Naganuma, Japanese shogi player
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Nagashima|長島 浩||born 1966}}, Japanese boxer
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Nakada|中田 宏||born 1964}}, Mayor of Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Nanami|名波 浩||born 1972}}, Japanese football player
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Narahara|奈良原 浩||born 1968}}, Japanese baseball player
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Neko|猫 ひろし||born 1977}}, Japanese comedian
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Nishikiori|錦織博||born 1966}}, Japanese director
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Ogawa|小川 博||born 1962}}, Japanese baseball player and convicted murderer
- Hiroshi Okamura, Japanese mathematician
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Okazaki|岡崎 洋||born 1967}}, Japanese shogi player
- {{Nihongo|Hirosi Ooguri|大栗 博司||born 1962}}, Japanese theoretical physicist
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Ōnogi|大野木 寛||born 1959}}, Japanese screenwriter and novelist
- Hiroshi Ōshima, Japanese general and diplomat
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Ōtake|大竹 宏||1932–2022}}, Japanese voice actor
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Saito (basketball)|斎藤 博||born 1933}}, Japanese basketball player
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Saito|斎藤 博||1886–1939}}, Japanese diplomat
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Saito|斉藤 浩史||born 1970}}, Japanese footballer
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Saitō (governor)|斎藤 弘||born 1957}}, Japanese politician from Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Saito|斎藤 裕||1947–2010}}, Japanese mathematician
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Saitō (mayor)|斉藤 博||born 1939}}, Japanese politician from Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Saito|才藤 浩||born 1961}}, Japanese pentathlete
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Saito|斎藤 宏||born 1937}}, Japanese rower
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Sakamoto|坂本 弘||born 1960}}, Japanese swimmer
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Sasagawa|笹川 ひろし||born 1936}}, Japanese director of several anime and manga series
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Sato (curler)|佐藤 浩||born 1978}}, Japanese curler and curling coach
- {{nihongo|Hiroshi Seko|瀬古浩司||}}, Japanese screenwriter
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Shibutani|渋谷 浩||born 1967}}, Japanese table tennis player
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Shima|島 比呂志||1918–2003}}, pen name of Kaoru Kishiue, Japanese writer
- Hiroshi Shimizu (disambiguation), multiple people
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Shirokuma|白熊 寛嗣||born 1979}}, Japanese voice actor
- Hiroshi Suzuki (disambiguation), multiple people
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Tachi|舘 ひろし||born 1950}}, Japanese actor
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Takahashi (architect)|高橋 ヒロシ||born 1953}}, Japanese architect
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Takahashi (artist)|高橋 ヒロシ||born 1965}}, Japanese manga artist
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Takahashi (table tennis)|高橋 浩}}, Japanese table tennis player
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Takemura|竹村 拓||born 1953}}, Japanese voice actor
- Hiroshi Takeya, a professor and physician in Japan
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Tamaki|玉置 宏||born 1980}}, Japanese television presenter
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Tamaki|玉木 宏||born 1980}}, Japanese actor
- Hiroshi Tanahashi (棚橋弘至, born 1976), Japanese professional wrestler
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Tanaka|田中 衆史||born 1972}}, Japanese figure skater and coach
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Tanaka (athlete)|田中 弘||born 1915}}, Japanese high jumper
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Teshigahara|勅使河原 宏||1927–2001}}, Japanese filmmaker
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Toriba|鳥羽 博司||born 1950}}, Japanese rower
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Tsuburaya|円谷 浩||1964–2001}}, Japanese actor
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Udagawa|宇田川 洋||born 1944}}, Japanese archaeologist and anthropologist
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Wajima|輪島 大士||born 1948}}, former Yokozuna in sumo
- Hiroshi Watanabe (disambiguation), multiple people
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Yamada|山田 宏||born 1958}}, Japanese politician
- {{Nihongo|Baron Yamakawa Hiroshi|山川 浩||1845–1898}}, samurai, politician and educator
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Yamamoto (archer)|山本 博||born 1962}}, Japanese archer
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Yamamoto (politician)|山本 博司||born 1954}}, Japanese politician
- Hiroshi Yamamoto (shogi), Japanese shogi player
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Yamamura|山村 浩||born 1962}}, Japanese naval officer
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Yamao|山尾 裕||born 1943}}, Japanese cyclist
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Yamato|ヒロシ||born 1983}}, Japanese professional wrestler
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Yamauchi|山内 溥||1927–2013}}, former president of Nintendo
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Yamazaki|山崎 博||1946–2017}}, Japanese photographer
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Yamazaki|山崎 弘||born 1937}}, Japanese weightlifter
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Yoshikawa|吉川 洋||born 1951}}, Japanese economist
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Yoshimura|吉村弘||1940–2003}}, Japanese musician and composer
- {{Nihongo|Hiroshi Yuki|結城 浩||born 1963}}, Japanese author (of books such as Math Girls) and computer programmer
People with the surname
- Sandro Hiroshi, Japanese-Brazilian footballer
Fictional characters
- Hiroshi (Gaeru), the protagonist of Dokonjō Gaeru
- Hiroshi (Pokémon), known in English as Ritchie, a character in the Pokémon anime
- Hiroshi (Ranma), a character in Ranma ½, one of Ranma's two friends, the other being Daisuke
- Hiroshi (Sesame Street), an aspiring artist on Sesame Street played by Gedde Watanabe in the late 1980s/Early 1990s
- Hiroshi, the main protagonist of the survival horror game Ao Oni
- Hiroshi, a character in Durarara!
- Hiroshi Abe, a character in Shonan Junai Gumi
- Hiroshi Agasa (Herschel Agasa in the English anime), in Case Closed: Detective Conan
- Hiroshi Akiba, a character from the manga Inubaka
- Hiroshi Fukuda, a character in Kuroko no Basuke
- Hiroshi Fumihiro, from Initial D
- Hiroshi Hayashi, a character in Yakuza
- Hiroshi Hirai, a character in Denshi Sentai Denziman
- Hiroshi Hoshizora, a character from the anime Smile PreCure!
- Hiroshi Ichikawa, a character from Wild Strikers
- Hiroshi Ichikawa, a character in the Manga and anime Kaibutsu-kun
- Hiroshi Kochatani, a character in Great Teacher Onizuka
- Hiroshi Kubo, a character from the novel Shiosai
- Hiroshi Kuronaga, Boy #9 in Battle Royale
- Hiroshi Matsumoto, a character in Miss Machiko
- Hiroshi Morenos, a character from the anime Michiko & Hatchin
- Hiroshi Mochizuki, a character in Kamen Rider ZO
- Hiroshi Nakano, a character in the Manga and anime Gravitation
- Hiroshi Nitta, a character in Denjin Zaborger
- Hiroshi Nohara (born c. 1960), father of the protagonist, Shinnosuke, in Crayon Shin-chan
- Hiroshi Sakura, the father of the protagonist, Momoko Maruko, in Chibi Maruko-chan
- Hiroshi Sato, Superior businessman, Equalist sympathizer, and father to Asami Sato in The Legend of Korra
- Hiroshi Tennouji, the main villain in Kamen Rider Blade
- Hiroshi Uchiyamada, a character in Great Teacher Onizuka
- Hiroshi Udagawa, a fictional businessman in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Hiroshi Yushima, a character in Digimon Savers
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