Yukio

Yukio is a masculine Japanese given name.

Written forms

Yukio can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples:

• 幸夫, "happiness, man"
• 幸生, "happiness, live"
• 幸男, "happiness, man"
• 幸雄, "happiness, male"
• 行夫, "to go, man"
• 行男, "to go, man"
• 行雄, "to go, male"
• 之夫, "of, man"
• 之男, "of, man"
• 之雄, "of, male"
• 由起夫, "reason, to rise, man"
• 由紀夫, "reason, chronicle, man"
• 由記雄, "reason, scribe, male"
• 悠紀夫, "long time, chronicle, man"
• 雪雄, "snow, male"

The name can also be written in hiragana ゆきお or katakana ユキオ.

Notable people with the name

• , Japanese pocket billiards player
• , pseudonym of Akiyuki Nosaka (野坂 昭如), Japanese novelist, singer, lyricist, and politician
• , Japanese politician who was Governor of Tokyo
• , Japanese baseball player
• , youngest-known Japanese Kamikaze pilot killed in World War II
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese gymnast
• , Japanese video game developer
• , Japanese equestrian
• , Japanese popular singer
• , Japanese Prime Minister
• , Japanese cook and television presenter
• , Japanese lawyer
• , Japanese gymnast
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese motorcycle racer
• , Japanese soldier
• , Japanese ski jumper
• , Japanese rower
• , Japanese writer
• , Japanese rugby football player
• , Japanese theatre director
• , Japanese boxer
• Yukio Okutsu (1921–2003), Hawaiian soldier who won the US Congressional Medal of Honor
• , Japanese politician
• Yukio Ozaki (artist) (born 1948) Japanese-born American visual artist
• Yukio Peter (born 1984), Nauruan weightlifter
• , Russian sumo wrestler
• , Japanese mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
• , Japanese boxer
• , Japanese naval aviator who led the first official kamikaze attack
• Yukio Shimoda (1921–1981), American actor
• Yukio Shmull (died 2018), Palauan politician
• , Japanese photographer
• , Japanese Supreme Court justice
• , Japanese baseball player
• , Japanese judoka
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese musician
• , Japanese murderer
• Yukio Yung, pseudonym of Terry Burrows, English writer and musician

Fictional characters

• Yukio (雪緒), a heroine in the X-Men comics
• Yukio, female character in the Eric Van Lustbader novel, The Ninja
• (Johnny) in the anime Mahoraba
• Yukio Mashimi in the anime Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• in the anime Digimon
• in the manga Beck
• , the twin character of the main protagonist Rin Okumura from the anime/manga, Blue Exorcist
• , a character from the anime/manga, Black Lagoon
• , one of the main antagonists in the anime/manga, Kaiji
• , also known as "Fake Akagi", a character from the anime/manga, Akagi
• , a character from the anime Gundam Build Divers

Other

• 5513 Yukio, asteroid
• "Death and Night and Blood (Yukio)", a song by The Stranglers from Black and White