Takeru
{{Infobox Given Name Revised
| name = Takeru
| image= YamatoTakeru.jpg
| imagesize=
| caption= Yamato Takeru, the legendary prince of the imperial dynasty
| pronunciation= {{IPA|ja|ta.ke.ɾɯ|}}
| gender = Male
| meaning = It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used.
| region = Japanese
| origin = Japanese
| related names = Takeo
| footnotes =
}}
{{nihongo|Takeru|たける, タケル}} is a masculine Japanese given name.
Orthography
People
- Takeru Imamura (猛), a Japanese baseball player
- Takeru Inukai (健), a Japanese politician
- Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi (尊), a Japanese competitive eater
- Takeru (Sug) (武瑠), a Japanese singer from the rock band Sug
- Takeru Nagayoshi (たける), a Japanese manga artist
- Takeru Satoh (健), a Japanese actor, portrays Ryotaro Nogami in tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Den-O
- {{Nihongo|Takeru Segawa|世川 武尊||born 1991}}, Japanese kickboxer
- Yamato Takeru (タケル), legendary Japanese prince
Fictional characters
- Takeru (aka RedMask), a character in Hikari Sentai Maskman
- Takeru (タケル), the main character in the Freedom Project by Nissin Cup Noodles
- Takeru (猛), secondary character from the visual novel, anime and manga Togainu no Chi
- Takeru Danma, a character known as "The Hatter" in Alice in Borderland, played by Nobuaki Kaneko
- Takeru Edogawa, a character in the manga series The Devil Does Exist
- Takeru Fujiwara, a character from Prince of Stride
- Takeru Homura, a main character in Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS
- Takeru Ibaraki, a character in the American comic book series Witchblade
- Takeru Jakuzure, a character from Garo
- Takeru Kojo (古城 タケル), a supporting character in Little Battlers Experience WARS
- Takeru Mizushima (タケル), a character in the Japanese TV drama Last Friends
- Takeru Ohyama, the main character in the anime and manga series Maken-ki!
- Takeru Shiba, a character in Samurai Sentai Shinkenger
- Takeru Shirogane (白銀 武), the main character in the visual novel series Muv-Luv
- Takeru "T.K." Takaishi (タケル), a character in the anime and manga Digimon
- Takeru Takemoto (タケル), a character in the anime This Ugly Yet Beautiful World
- Takeru Teshimine (猛), a character in the anime and manga series GetBackers
- Takeru Yamato, the main character in the Dragon Knight series of Anime/H-games
- Takeru Tenkūji, the main character in Kamen Rider Ghost
- Takeru Tsukumo, a main character in the manga Exoskull Zero
- Takeru Totsuka, a main character in Kamigami no Asobi
Other uses
- Takeru: Letter of the Law, an interactive manga
- Takeru, video game developer and publisher
- ja:Takeru, software distribution mechanism (sort of 'Copy-on-Demand') by Brother Industries in Japan
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