Osamu

Osamu (おさむ, オサム) is a masculine Japanese given name.

Possible writings
Osamu can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
 * 治 "reign"
 * 修 "discipline"
 * 理 "logic"
 * 収 "obtain"
 * 紀 "chronicle"
 * 統 "rule"

People with the name

 * Osamu Abe (baseball) (安部 理), Japanese baseball player and coach
 * Osamu Abe (rower) (安部 収), Japanese rower
 * Osamu Adachi (足立 理), Japanese actor
 * Osamu Akimoto (秋本 治), Japanese manga artist
 * Osamu Annen (安念 治), Japanese sumo wrestler
 * Osamu Ashitomi (安次富 修), Japanese politician
 * Osamu Chiba (千葉 修), Japanese former football player
 * Osamu Dazai (太宰 治), Japanese author
 * Osamu Dezaki (出﨑 統), Japanese anime director
 * Osamu Fujimura (藤村 修), Japanese politician
 * Osamu Fujimura (scientist) (藤村靖), Japanese physicist, phonetician and linguist
 * Osamu Fukutani (福谷 修), Japanese film director
 * Osamu Furuya (古谷 伸), Japanese cinematographer
 * Osamu Hagiwara (萩原修), Japanese racing driver
 * Osamu Hamanaka (濱中 治), Japanese former professional baseball player
 * Osamu Hayaishi (早石 修), Japanese biochemist, physiologist and military physician
 * Osamu Hayasaki (早崎 治), Japanese photographer
 * Osamu Hayashi (林 修), Japanese television personality
 * Osamu Higashio (東尾 修), Japanese former baseball player
 * Osamu Hirose (広瀬 治), Japanese former footballer
 * Osamu Hokuseihō (北青鵬 治), Mongolian-born Japanese sumo wrestler
 * Osamu Hosoi (細井 治), Japanese voice actor
 * Osamu Inoue (井上 治), Japanese long-distance runner
 * Osamu Ishiguro (石黒 修), Japanese tennis player
 * Osamu Ishiwata (石渡 治), Japanese manga artist
 * Osamu Henry Iyoha (イヨハ 理 ヘンリー), Japanese footballer
 * Osamu Kaneda (金田 治), Japanese director and stuntman
 * Osamu Kanemura (金村 修), Japanese photographer
 * Osamu Kido (木戸 修), Japanese professional wrestler
 * Osamu Kitajima (喜多嶋 修), Japanese musician, producer and composer
 * Osamu Kobayashi (animation director) (小林 治), Japanese animator and animation director
 * Osamu Kobayashi (illustrator) (小林 治), Japanese animator, illustrator, mechanical designer and animation director
 * Osamu Kobayashi (voice actor) (小林 治), Japanese voice actor
 * Osamu Kodama (児玉 修), Japanese former alpine skier
 * Osamu Kudō (工藤 修), Japanese officer and ace fighter pilot
 * Osamu Kuraishi (倉石 平), Japanese basketball coach
 * Osamu Maeda (前田 治), Japanese former football player
 * Osamu Mandai (万代 治), Japanese rower
 * Osamu Masuko (益子 修), Japanese business executive
 * Osamu Matsubara (松原 治), Japanese businessman
 * Osamu Matsuda (松田 納), Japanese professional wrestler better known as El Samurai
 * Osamu Mihara (三原 脩), Japanese professional baseball player and manager
 * Osamu Miura (三浦 修), Japanese football player
 * Osamu Miyazaki (宮崎 敦), Japanese former professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
 * Osamu Mukai (向井 理), Japanese actor
 * Osamu Muramatsu (村松 修), Japanese astronomer and discoverer of asteroids and comets
 * Osamu Nagayama (永山 治), Japanese businessman
 * Osamu Naito (内藤 修), Japanese speed skater
 * Osamu Nakako (中子修), Japanese former professional racing driver
 * Osamu James Nakagawa (オサム ジェームス 中川), Japanese-American photographer
 * Osamu Nakajima (中嶋 修), Japanese racing driver


 * Osamu Nakamura (中村 修), Japanese shogi player
 * Osamu Nishimura (西村 修), Japanese professional wrestler
 * Osamu Noguchi (野口 修), Japanese kickboxing promoter
 * Osamu Ochiai (落合 治), Japanese sport shooter
 * Osamu Ota (太田 治), Japanese former rugby union player and coach
 * Osamu Saito (斎藤 修), Japanese rower
 * Osamu Saka (阪 脩), Japanese actor and voice actor
 * Osamu Sakata (坂田 おさむ), Japanese actor
 * Osamu Sato (佐藤 理), Japanese artist, photographer and composer
 * Osamu Sato (boxer) (佐藤 修), Japanese boxer
 * Osamu Shiihara (椎原 治), Japanese photographer
 * Osamu Shimomura (下村 脩), Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist
 * Osamu Shimomura (economist) (下村 治), Japanese economist
 * Osamu Shitara (設楽 統), Japanese comedian and television presenter
 * Osamu Sumida (住田 修), Japanese cyclist
 * Osamu Suzuki (businessman) (鈴木 修), Japanese businessman
 * Osamu Suzuki (ceramist) (鈴木 治), Japanese ceramist
 * Osamu Suzuki (screenwriter) (鈴木 収), Japanese television writer, screenwriter, lyricist and tarento
 * Osamu Tada (多田 修), Japanese alpine skier
 * Osamu Takechi (武知 治), Japanese field hockey player
 * Osamu Takizawa (滝沢 修), Japanese actor
 * Osamu Taninaka (谷中 治), Japanese former football player
 * Osamu Tezuka (手塚 治), Japanese manga artist, cartoonist and animator
 * Osamu Tsuno (津野 修), Japanese lawyer
 * Osamu Tsurumine (鶴峯 治), Japanese swimmer
 * Osamu Umeyama (梅山 修), Japanese former football player
 * Osamu Ueno (上野 修), Japanese freestyle skier
 * Osamu Uno (宇野 治), Japanese politician
 * Osamu Wakabayashi (若林 修), Canadian-Japanese professional ice hockey player
 * Osamu Watanabe (渡辺 長武), Japanese retired freestyle wrestler
 * Osamu Yamazaki (山崎 修), Japanese freestyle skier
 * Osamu Yatabe (矢田部 理), Japanese lawyer and politician
 * Osamu Yoshioka (吉岡 治), Japanese lyricist

Fictional characters

 * Osamu Dazai (太宰 治), a character in the anime and manga Bungo Stray Dogs
 * Osamu Kashiwagi (柏木 修), a character in the video game series Yakuza
 * Osamu Kamiyama (神山 治), a character in the anime series Kamisama Kazoku
 * Osamu Kurihara (栗原 オサム), a character in the tokusatsu series Moero!! Robocon
 * Osamu Kimizuka, a character in the shōnen-ai manga Loveless
 * Osamu Mikumo (三雲 修), a character in the anime and manga World Trigger
 * Osamu Miya (宮 治), a character in the anime and manga Haikyu!!
 * Osamu Shibata (柴田 修), a character in the anime and manga series Ao no Orchestra