Jiro (given name)

Jirō or Jiro (じろう, ジロウ) is a stand-alone Japanese given name along with "Tarō", and a common name suffix for males.

Possible writings
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
 * Jiro Hiratsuka (平塚 次郎), Japanese footballer
 * Jiro Hirokawa (廣川 二郎), Japanese engineer
 * Jiro Horikoshi (二郎, 1903–1982), chief engineer behind many Japanese fighters of WWII
 * Jiro Hosotani (細谷 治朗), 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
 * Jiro Ogawa (小川 次郎), Japanese ice hockey player
 * Jiro Okabe (岡部 次郎), 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
 * Jiro Saito (voice actor) (斉藤 次郎), Japanese voice actor
 * Jiro Saito (businessman) (斎藤 次郎), 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 - Rhyme Anima
 * Jiro Yamashita (山下次郎), an idol from The Idolmaster SideM
 * Haida Jiro (ハイ田ジロウ), character in the anime Aggretsuko

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