Tetsuya

Tetsuya can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

• 哲也, "philosophy, to be"
• 鉄也, "iron, to be"
• 哲哉, "philosophy, alas"
• 徹也, "devotion, to be"
• 徹矢, "penetrate, arrow"
• 鉄弥, "iron, increasingly"

The name can also be written in hiragana てつや or katakana テツヤ.

• Tetsuya (dancer) (born 1981), Japanese dancer
• Tetsuya (musician) (born 1969), Japanese musician
• Tetsuya Asano (浅野 哲也, born 1967) is a former Japanese football player and manager
• Tetsuya Chiba (てつや, born 1939), Japanese manga artist
• Tetsuya Chikushi (哲也, 1935–2008), Japanese newscaster
• Tetsuya Endo (disambiguation), multiple people
• Tetsuya Enomoto (哲也, born 1983), Japanese football player
• Tetsuya Fujii (哲也), a Japanese astronomer
• {{Nihongo|Tetsuya Fujimori|藤森 哲也||born 1987}}, Japanese shogi player
• Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita (哲也, 1920–1998), Japanese severe storms researcher
• Tetsuya Funatsu (舩津 徹也, born 1987) is a Japanese football player
• Tetsuya Harada (哲也, born 1970), Japanese former GP motorcycle racer
• Tetsuya Hibino (哲也, born 1974), Japanese professional drifting driver
• Tetsuya Ichimura (哲也, born 1930), Japanese photographer
• Tetsuya Ishida (徹也, 1973–2005), Japanese painter
• {{Nihongo|Tetsuya Ito|伊藤 哲也||born 1970}}, Japanese footballer
• Tetsuya Iwanaga (哲哉, born 1970), Japanese voice actor
• Tetsuya Kajiwara (drummer) (徹也, born 1963), Japanese drummer
• Tetsuya Kakihara (徹也, born 1982), Japanese voice actor
• Tetsuya Kakiuchi (垣内 哲也, born 1970) is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball outfielder
• Tetsuya Kiyonari (哲也, born 1961), Japanese professional Go player
• {{Nihongo|Tetsuya Koishi|小石 哲也||born 1990}}, Japanese footballer
• {{Nihongo|Tetsuya Kokubo|小窪 哲也||born 1985}}, Japanese baseball player
• Tetsuya Komuro (哲哉, born 1958), Japanese keyboardist, songwriter and music producer
• {{Nihongo|Tetsuya Kumakawa|熊川 哲也||born 1972}}, Japanese ballet dancer
• Tetsuya Makita (哲也, born 1984), Japanese actor
• Tetsuya Matoyama (哲也, born 1970), Japanese professional baseball catcher
• {{Nihongo|Tetsuya Matsumoto|松本 哲也||born 1984}}, Japanese baseball player
• Tetsuya Mizuguchi (哲也, born 1965), Japanese video game designer and producer
• {{Nihongo|Tetsuya Murayama|村山 哲也||born 1974}}, Japanese football manager
• Tetsuya Naito (哲也, born 1982), Japanese professional wrestler
• Tetsuya Nakashima (哲也, born 1959), Japanese film director
• {{Nihongo|Nishikigi Tetsuya|錦木 徹也||born 1990}}, Japanese sumo wrestler
• {{Nihongo|Tetsuya Noda|野田 哲也||born 1940}}, Japanese artist, printmaker and educator
• Tetsuya Nomura (哲也, born 1970), Japanese video game director
• Tetsuya Ōkubo (大久保 哲哉, born 1980) is a Japanese football player
• Tetsuya Ota (哲也, born 1959), Japanese racecar driver
• {{Nihongo|Tetsuya Saito|斉藤 哲也||born 1983}}, Japanese ice hockey player
• Tetsuya Saruwatari (哲也, born 1958), Japanese manga artist
• Tetsuya Shibata (徹也, born 1973), video game music composer
• Tetsuya Shimizu (清水 哲也, born 1983), Japanese professional wrestler
• Tetsuya Shikawa 鉄也, Japanese politician
• Tetsuya Shiroo (哲彌, born 1948), Japanese yakuza
• Tetsuya Takahashi (哲哉, born 1966), Japanese video game creator
• Tetsuya Takeda (鉄矢), Japanese singer and actor
• Tetsuya Takehora (竹洞哲也, born 1974) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
• Tetsuya Tanaka (田中哲也, born 1965) is a Japanese racing driver
• {{Nihongo|Tetsuya Totsuka|戸塚 哲也||born 1961}}, Japanese footballer and manager
• Tetsuya Utsumi (内海 哲也, born 1982) is a Japanese professional baseball player
• Tetsuya Wakuda (哲也, born 1959), Japanese-born Australian chef
• Tetsuya Watari (哲也, born 1941), Japanese stage, film, and television actor
• Tetsuya Yamagami (山上 徹也), the only suspect in the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe
• {{Nihongo|Tetsuya Yamaguchi|山口 鉄也||born 1983}}, Japanese baseball player
• {{Nihongo|Tetsuya Yamamoto|山本 哲哉||born 1985}}, Japanese baseball player
• Tetsuya Yanagisawa (テツヤ), Japanese anime director
• Tetsuya Yoneda (哲也, born 1938), Japanese professional baseball pitcher
• {{Nihongo|Tetsuya Yoroizaka|鎧坂 哲哉||born 1990}}, Japanese long-distance runner

• Tetsuya Azuma (鉄也), protagonist of the 1973 anime series Casshan and of the 2004 film Casshern
• Tetsuya Kajiwara (Fushigi Yūgi) (哲也), in the manga and anime series Fushigi Yūgi
• Tetsuya Kuroko, the protagonist of the manga and anime series Kuroko's Basketball
• Tetsuya Sendo, a friend of Ritsu Kasanoda in the manga and anime series Ouran High School Host Club
• Tetsuya Takahashi, in Haruki Murakami's novel After Dark
• Tetsuya Tsurugi (鉄也), the protagonist of manga and anime series Great Mazinger
• Tetsuya Watarigani, a recurring character in the anime series Beyblade: Metal Fusion
• Tetsuya Yuuki (哲也), in the manga and anime series Ace of Diamond
• Tetsuya, Japanese name of Tyson from Pokémon: Advanced Battle
• Tetsuya Yano, a character from Choujuu Sentai Liveman
• Tetsuya from Yokai Watch

• 4343 Tetsuya, a main-belt asteroid
• Legendary Gambler Tetsuya, a gambling manga
• Tetsuya's, a restaurant in Sydney, Australia

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