Hiroshi

Hiroshi (ひろし, ヒロシ) is a common masculine Japanese given name. It can also be transliterated as Hirosi.

Possible writings
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

 * Hiroshi (owarai) (ヒロシ), Japanese comedian
 * Hiroshi Abe (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Hiroshi Abe (actor) (阿部 寛), Japanese actor
 * Hiroshi Abe (astronomer) (安部 裕史), Japanese astronomer
 * Hiroshi Abe (war criminal) (born 1922), Japanese soldier
 * Hiroshi Ando (安藤 尋), Japanese screenwriter and film director
 * Hiroshi Arakawa (荒川 博), Japanese baseball player
 * Hiroshi Aramata (荒俣 宏), Japanese author, polymath, critic, translator
 * Hiroshi Fujioka (藤岡 弘), Japanese actor
 * Hiroshi Fujiwara (藤原 ヒロシ), Japanese musician, trendsetter, producer, and designer
 * Hiroshi Hanawa (花輪 博), Japanese handball player
 * Hiroshi Hara (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Hiroshi Hashimoto (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Hiroshi Honda (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Hiroshi Hori (堀 寛), Japanese ice hockey player
 * Hiroshi Ibusuki (指宿 洋史), Japanese footballer
 * Hiroshi Inaba (稲葉 博志), Japanese bobsledder
 * Hiroshi Inagaki (稲垣 浩), Japanese film director
 * Hiroshi Ichihara (市原 大嗣), Japanese footballer
 * Hiroshi Inomata (猪俣 弘司), Japanese diplomat
 * Hiroshi Inose (猪瀬 博), Japanese electrical engineer
 * Hiroshi Inoue (entomologist) (井上 寛), Japanese lepidopterist
 * Hiroshi Inoue (bryologist) (井上 浩), Japanese bryologist
 * Hiroshi Itagaki (板垣 宏志), Japanese ski jumper
 * Hiroshi Ito (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Hiroshi Itsuki (五木 ひろし), Japanese enka singer
 * Hiroshi Iwata (岩田 寛), Japanese golfer
 * Hiroshi Kaino (甲斐野 央), Japanese professional baseball player
 * Hiroshi Kajiyama (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Hiroshi Kamiya (神谷 浩史), Japanese voice actor
 * Hiroshi Kamiya (shogi) (神谷 広志), Japanese shogi player
 * Hiroshi Kashiwagi (1922–2019), American poet, playwright and actor
 * Hiroshi Kato (加藤 寛), Japanese footballer and manager
 * Hiroshi Kato (aikido) (加藤 弘), Japanese aikidoka
 * Hiroshi Katsuno (勝野 洋), Japanese actor
 * Hiroshi Kawaguchi (actor) (川口 浩), Japanese actor
 * Hiroshi Kawaguchi (composer) (川口 博史), Japanese video game composer
 * Hiroshi Kawashima (川島 郭志), Japanese boxer
 * Hiroshi Kimura (木村 宏), Japanese businessman
 * Hiroshi Kitadani (きただに ひろし), Japanese singer
 * Hiroshi Kobayashi (shogi, born 1962) (小林 宏), Japanese shogi player
 * Hiroshi Kobayashi (shogi, born 1976), Japanese shogi player
 * Hiroshi Kume (久米 宏), Japanese announcer and television presenter
 * Hiroshi Lockheimer, a Japanese German software engineer and one of the founding members of the Android team at Google
 * Hiroshi Machii (待井 寛), Japanese freestyle skier
 * Hiroshi Masuoka (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Hiroshi Matsumoto (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Hiroshi Matsunobu (松延 博), Japanese gymnast
 * Hiroshi Matsuura (松浦 浩史), Japanese ice hockey player
 * Hiroshi Mikami (三上 博史), Japanese actor
 * Hiroshi Mikitani (三木谷 浩史), President and CEO of Rakuten
 * Hiroshi Mitsuzuka (三塚 博), Japanese politician
 * Hiroshi Miura (三浦 広司), Japanese swimmer
 * Hiroshi Miyamoto (宮本 広志), Japanese shogi player
 * Hiroshi Miyauchi (宮内 洋), Japanese actor
 * Hiroshi H. Miyamura (1925–2022), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
 * Hiroshi Mori (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Hiroshi Morie (森江 博), better known as Heath, Japanese musician
 * Hiroshi Moriyasu (森保 洋), Japanese footballer
 * Hiroshi Murakami (村上 寛), Japanese jazz drummer
 * Hiroshi Nagano (長野 博) Japanese singer, a member of boy band V6
 * 長沼 洋 (Hiroshi Naganuma), Japanese shogi player
 * Hiroshi Nagashima (長島 浩), Japanese boxer
 * Hiroshi Nakada (中田 宏), Mayor of Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
 * Hiroshi Nanami (名波 浩), Japanese football player
 * Hiroshi Narahara (奈良原 浩), Japanese baseball player
 * Hiroshi Neko (猫 ひろし), Japanese comedian
 * Hiroshi Nishikiori (錦織博), Japanese director
 * Hiroshi Ogawa (小川 博), Japanese former baseball player and convicted murderer
 * Hiroshi Okamura岡村 博, Japanese mathematician
 * Hiroshi Okazaki (岡崎 洋), Japanese shogi player
 * Hirosi Ooguri (大栗 博司), Japanese theoretical physicist
 * Hiroshi Ōnogi (大野木 寛), Japanese screenwriter and novelist
 * Hiroshi Ōshima, Japanese general and diplomat
 * Hiroshi Ōtake (大竹 宏), Japanese voice actor
 * Hiroshi Saito (basketball) (斎藤 博), Japanese basketball player
 * Hiroshi Saito (diplomat) (斎藤 博), Japanese diplomat
 * Hiroshi Saito (footballer) (斉藤 浩史), Japanese footballer
 * Hiroshi Saitō (governor) (斎藤 弘), Japanese politician from Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture
 * Hiroshi Saito (mathematician) (斎藤 裕), Japanese mathematician
 * Hiroshi Saitō (mayor) (斉藤 博), Japanese politician from Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture
 * Hiroshi Saito (pentathlete) (才藤 浩), Japanese modern pentathlete
 * Hiroshi Saito (rower) (斎藤 宏), Japanese rower
 * Hiroshi Sakamoto (坂本 弘), Japanese swimmer
 * Hiroshi Sasagawa (笹川 ひろし), Japanese director of several anime and manga series
 * Hiroshi Sato (佐藤 浩), Japanese footballer
 * Hiroshi Sato (curler) (佐藤 浩), Japanese curler and curling coach
 * Hiroshi Seko (瀬古浩司), Japanese screenwriter
 * Hiroshi Shibutani (渋谷 浩), Japanese table tennis player
 * Hiroshi Shimozaki (下崎 紘史), Japanese voice actor
 * Hiroshi Shirokuma (白熊 寛嗣), Japanese voice actor
 * Hiroshi Shima (島 比呂志), pen name of Kaoru Kishiue, Japanese writer
 * Hiroshi Shimizu (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Hiroshi Suzuki (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Hiroshi Tachi (舘 ひろし), Japanese actor
 * Hiroshi Takahashi (architect) (高橋 ヒロシ), Japanese architect
 * Hiroshi Takahashi (artist) (高橋 ヒロシ), Japanese manga artist
 * Hiroshi Takahashi (table tennis) (高橋 浩), Japanese table tennis player
 * Hiroshi Takemura (竹村 拓), Japanese voice actor
 * Hiroshi Takeya, a professor and physician in Japan
 * Hiroshi Tamaki (玉置 宏), Japanese television presenter
 * Hiroshi Tamaki (玉木 宏), Japanese actor
 * Hiroshi Tanahashi (棚橋弘至, born 1976), Japanese professional wrestler
 * Hiroshi Tanaka (figure skater) (田中 衆史), Japanese figure skater and coach
 * Hiroshi Tanaka (athlete) (田中 弘), Japanese high jumper
 * Hiroshi Teshigahara (勅使河原 宏), Japanese filmmaker
 * Hiroshi Toriba (鳥羽 博司), Japanese rower
 * Hiroshi Tsuburaya (円谷 浩), Japanese actor
 * Hiroshi Udagawa (宇田川 洋), Japanese archaeologist and anthropologist
 * Hiroshi Wajima (輪島 大士), former Yokozuna in sumo
 * Hiroshi Watanabe (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Hiroshi Yamada (山田 宏), Japanese politician
 * Baron Yamakawa Hiroshi (山川 浩), samurai, politician and educator
 * Hiroshi Yamamoto (archer) (山本 博), Japanese archer
 * Hiroshi Yamamoto (politician) (山本 博司), Japanese politician
 * Hiroshi Yamamoto (shogi), Japanese shogi player
 * Hiroshi Yamamura (山村 浩), Japanese naval officer
 * Hiroshi Yamao (山尾 裕), Japanese cyclist
 * Hiroshi Yamato (ヒロシ), Japanese professional wrestler
 * Hiroshi Yamauchi (山内 溥), former president of Nintendo
 * Hiroshi Yamazaki (山崎 博), Japanese photographer
 * Hiroshi Yamazaki (weightlifter) (山崎 弘), Japanese weightlifter
 * Hiroshi Yoshikawa (吉川 洋), Japanese economist
 * Hiroshi Yoshimura (吉村弘), Japanese musician and composer
 * Hiroshi Yuki (結城 浩), 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 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