Akio

Akio (written: 昭雄, 昭夫, 昭生, 昭男, 明雄, 明夫, 明生, 章雄, 章夫, 章男, 章央, 彰朗, 彰生, 秋雄, 秋夫, 秋男, 陽生, 晶夫 or あきお in hiragana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:


 * Akio Arakawa (1927–2021), Japanese-American climate scientist
 * Akio Chen (born 1956), Taiwanese actor
 * Akio Chiba (ちば あきお), Japanese manga artist
 * Akio Fukuda (福田 昭夫), Japanese politician
 * Akio Hattori (服部 晶夫), Japanese mathematician
 * Akio Hong (born 1969), Chinese travel writer, broadcaster, television host, and columnist
 * Akio Inoue (井上 秋緒), Japanese lyricist
 * Akio Ishii (石井 昭男, born 1955), Japanese baseball player
 * Akio Ishikawa (石川 陽生), Japanese shogi player
 * Akio Jissoji (実相寺 昭雄), Japanese television and film director
 * Akio Kakishita (柿下 秋男), Japanese rower
 * Akio Kaminaga (神永 昭夫), Japanese judoka
 * Akio Kanai (金井 昭雄), Japanese optometrist
 * Akio Kanemoto (born 1945), Japanese golfer
 * Akio Kashiwagi (柏木 昭男), Japanese businessman and murder victim
 * Akio Katayama (片山 章雄), Japanese historian
 * Akio Kogiku (小菊 昭雄), Japanese football manager
 * Akio Koizumi (小泉 昭男), Japanese politician
 * Akio Kudo (born 1947), Japanese field hockey player
 * Akio Kuwazawa (桑沢 秋雄), Japanese cyclist
 * Akio Matsuba (松場 秋夫), Japanese naval aviator
 * Akio Mimura (三村 明夫), Japanese businessman
 * Akio Minakami (born 1948), Japanese karateka
 * Akio Miyazawa (宮沢 章夫), Japanese playwright, writer, and academic
 * Akio Mizuta (水田 章雄), Japanese baseball player
 * Akio Mori (森 昭雄), Japanese physiologist and writer
 * Akio Morimoto (森本晃生), Japanese racing driver
 * Akio Morita (盛田 昭夫), Japanese businessman
 * Akio Johnson Mutek (1958–2013), South Sudanese Roman Catholic bishop
 * Akio Nakamori (中森 明夫), Japanese writer
 * Akio Nohira (野平 明雄), Japanese table tennis player
 * Akio Nojima (野島 昭生), Japanese voice actor, actor and narrator
 * Akio Ohta (born 1984), Japanese speed skater
 * Akio Ōtsuka (大塚 明夫), Japanese actor and voice actor
 * Akio Saito (斉藤 明雄), Japanese baseball player
 * Akio Sasajima (笹島 明夫), Japanese jazz guitarist
 * Akio Sasaki (佐々木 彰生), Japanese figure skater
 * Akio Sato (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Akio Shibata (柴田 明雄), Japanese boxer
 * Akio Sohda (左右田 秋雄), Japanese field hockey player
 * Akio Sugino (杉野 昭夫), Japanese character designer
 * Akio Suyama (陶山 章央), Japanese voice actor
 * Akio Suzuki (鈴木 章夫), Japanese surgeon, medical scientist and educator
 * Akio Takamori (1950–2017), Japanese-American sculptor
 * Akio Takashima (born 1942), Japanese field hockey player
 * Akio Tamashiro, Peruvian karateka
 * Akio Toyoda (豊田 章男), president and CEO of Toyota Motor Corporation
 * Tsurugamine Akio (鶴ヶ嶺 昭男), Japanese sumo wrestler
 * Akio Usami (宇佐美 彰朗), Japanese long-distance runner
 * Akio Watanabe (渡辺 明夫), Japanese animator
 * Akio Yashiro (矢代 秋雄), Japanese composer
 * Akio Yasuraoka (安良岡 章夫), Japanese classical composer
 * Akio Yoshida (吉田 明生), Japanese footballer

Other people

 * Jimmy Yang, American wrestler who used Akio as his ring name