Jiro (given name)

is a stand-alone Japanese given name along with "Tarō", and a common name suffix for males.

Written forms

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

• 次郎, "next, son"
• 次朗, "next, melodious"
• 二郎, "second, son"
• 二朗, "second, melodious"
• 治郎, "reign, son"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People

• Jiro (musician) (born 1972), bassist of the Japanese rock band GLAY
• Jiro Aichi (治郎, born 1969), Japanese politician
• Jirō Akagawa (次郎, born 1948), Japanese novelist
• Jiro Akama (二郎, born 1968), Japanese politician
• Jiro Ando (慈朗), Japanese manga artist
• Jirō Asada (次郎, born 1951), Japanese novelist
• , Japanese engineer
• Jiro Horikoshi (二郎, 1903–1982), chief engineer behind many Japanese fighters of WWII
• , Japanese weightlifter
• Jiro Kamiharako (次郎, born 1966), Japanese ski jumper
• Jiro Kikkawa (1929–2016), Japanese Australian ornithologist
• Jiro Manio (born 1992), Filipino actor
• Jiro Nakano (二郎, 1902–2000), Japanese composer
• , Japanese ice hockey player
• , Japanese politician
• Jiro Ono (chef) (born 1925), chef and owner of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a three-Michelin-starred restaurant
• Jiro Ono (politician) (born 1953), Japanese politician of Your Party
• , Japanese voice actor
• , Japanese businessman
• Jiro Wang (born 1981), Taiwanese actor and singer

Characters

• Jiro (Blue Dragon) (ジーロ), a character in the Blue Dragon video game
• Jiro (Kamen Rider) (次狼) or Garulu (ガルル), a supporting character in the Kamen Rider Kiva tokusatsu series
• Jiro (Kikaider) (ジロー), the main protagonist in the Android Kikaider tokusatsu series
• Jiro Mochizuki, main protagonist in Black Blood Brothers
• Jiro Ueda (次郎), the main character in Trick TV series
• Jiro Shirogane, fantasy persona of Takashi "Shiro" Shirogane in Voltron: Legendary Defender
• Jiro Yamada (山田 二郎), the second child of the team called Buster Bros!!! from Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle
• , an idol from The Idolmaster SideM

Other uses

• Jiro (ジロ), the famed Sakhalin Husky of the 1958 Japanese Antarctica expedition, depicted in the 1983 Japanese film Nankyoku Monogatari; see Taro and Jiro
• Erlang Shen 二郎神 Chinese god