Hiroshi

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

• , Japanese comedian
• Hiroshi Abe (disambiguation), multiple people
• , Japanese actor
• , Japanese astronomer
• Hiroshi Abe (1922–?), Japanese war criminal
• , Japanese physicist, engineer, Nobel Prize winner
• , Japanese screenwriter and film director
• , Japanese baseball player
• , Japanese author, polymath, critic, translator
• , Japanese actor
• , Japanese musician, trendsetter, producer, and designer
• , Japanese handball player
• Hiroshi Hara (disambiguation), multiple people
• Hiroshi Hashimoto (disambiguation), multiple people
• Hiroshi Honda (disambiguation), multiple people
• , Japanese ice hockey player
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese bobsledder
• , Japanese film director
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese diplomat
• , Japanese electrical engineer
• , Japanese lepidopterist
• , Japanese botanist
• , Japanese ski jumper
• Hiroshi Ito (disambiguation), multiple people
• , Japanese enka singer
• , Japanese golfer
• , Japanese professional baseball player
• Hiroshi Kajiyama (disambiguation), multiple people
• , Japanese voice actor
• , Japanese shogi player
• Hiroshi Kashiwagi (1922–2019), American poet, playwright and actor
• , Japanese footballer and manager
• , Japanese aikidoka
• , Japanese actor
• , Japanese actor
• , Japanese video game composer
• , Japanese boxer
• , Japanese businessman
• , Japanese singer
• , Japanese shogi player
• Hiroshi Kobayashi (shogi, born 1976), Japanese shogi player
• , Japanese announcer and television presenter
• Hiroshi Lockheimer, a Japanese German software engineer and one of the founding members of the Android team at Google
• , Japanese freestyle skier
• Hiroshi Masuoka (disambiguation), multiple people
• Hiroshi Matsumoto (disambiguation), multiple people
• , Japanese gymnast
• , Japanese ice hockey player
• , Japanese actor
• , President and CEO of Rakuten
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese swimmer
• , Japanese shogi player
• , Japanese actor
• Hiroshi H. Miyamura (1925–2022), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
• Hiroshi Mori (disambiguation), multiple people
• , better known as Heath, Japanese musician
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese jazz drummer
• Japanese singer, a member of boy band V6
• Hiroshi Naganuma, Japanese shogi player
• , Japanese boxer
• , Mayor of Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
• , Japanese football player
• , Japanese baseball player
• , Japanese comedian
• , Japanese director
• , Japanese baseball player and convicted murderer
• Hiroshi Okamura, Japanese mathematician
• , Japanese shogi player
• , Japanese theoretical physicist
• , Japanese screenwriter and novelist
• Hiroshi Ōshima, Japanese general and diplomat
• , Japanese voice actor
• , Japanese basketball player
• , Japanese diplomat
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese politician from Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture
• , Japanese mathematician
• , Japanese politician from Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture
• , Japanese pentathlete
• , Japanese rower
• , Japanese swimmer
• , Japanese director of several anime and manga series
• , Japanese curler and curling coach
• , Japanese screenwriter
• , Japanese table tennis player
• , pen name of Kaoru Kishiue, Japanese writer
• Hiroshi Shimizu (disambiguation), multiple people
• , Japanese voice actor
• Hiroshi Suzuki (disambiguation), multiple people
• , Japanese actor
• , Japanese architect
• , Japanese manga artist
• , Japanese table tennis player
• , Japanese voice actor
• Hiroshi Takeya, a professor and physician in Japan
• , Japanese television presenter
• , Japanese actor
• Hiroshi Tanahashi (棚橋弘至, born 1976), Japanese professional wrestler
• , Japanese figure skater and coach
• , Japanese high jumper
• , Japanese filmmaker
• , Japanese rower
• , Japanese actor
• , Japanese archaeologist and anthropologist
• , former Yokozuna in sumo
• Hiroshi Watanabe (disambiguation), multiple people
• , Japanese politician
• , samurai, politician and educator
• , Japanese archer
• , Japanese politician
• Hiroshi Yamamoto (shogi), Japanese shogi player
• , Japanese naval officer
• , Japanese cyclist
• , Japanese professional wrestler
• , former president of Nintendo
• , Japanese photographer
• , Japanese weightlifter
• , Japanese economist
• , Japanese musician and composer
• , 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