Tetsuya

Tetsuya is a masculine Japanese given name.

Possible writings
Tetsuya can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:


 * 哲也, "philosophy, to be"
 * 鉄也, "iron, to be"
 * 哲哉, "philosophy, alas"
 * 徹也, "devotion, to be"
 * 徹矢, "penetrate, arrow"
 * 鉄弥, "iron, increasingly"

The name can also be written in hiragana てつや or katakana テツヤ.

People with the name

 * Tetsuya (dancer) (born 1981), Japanese dancer
 * Tetsuya (musician) (born 1969), Japanese musician
 * Tetsuya Abe (阿部 哲也), Japanese footballer
 * Tetsuya Asano (浅野 哲也, born 1967) is a former Japanese football player and manager
 * Tetsuya Chiba (てつや, born 1939), Japanese manga artist
 * Tetsuya Chikushi (哲也, 1935–2008), Japanese newscaster
 * Tetsuya Endo (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Tetsuya Enomoto (哲也, born 1983), Japanese football player
 * Tetsuya Fujii (哲也), a Japanese astronomer
 * Tetsuya Fujimori (藤森 哲也), Japanese shogi player
 * Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita (哲也, 1920–1998), Japanese severe storms researcher
 * Tetsuya Funatsu (舩津 徹也, born 1987) is a Japanese football player
 * Tetsuya Harada (哲也, born 1970), Japanese former GP motorcycle racer
 * Tetsuya Hibino (哲也, born 1974), Japanese professional drifting driver
 * Tetsuya Ichimura (哲也, born 1930), Japanese photographer
 * Tetsuya Ishida (徹也, 1973–2005), Japanese painter
 * Tetsuya Ito (伊藤 哲也), Japanese footballer
 * Tetsuya Iwanaga (哲哉, born 1970), Japanese voice actor
 * Tetsuya Kajiwara (drummer) (徹也, born 1963), Japanese drummer
 * Tetsuya Kakihara (徹也, born 1982), Japanese voice actor
 * Tetsuya Kakiuchi (垣内 哲也, born 1970) is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball outfielder
 * Tetsuya Kiyonari (哲也, born 1961), Japanese professional Go player
 * Tetsuya Koishi (小石 哲也), Japanese footballer
 * Tetsuya Kokubo (小窪 哲也), Japanese baseball player
 * Tetsuya Komuro (哲哉, born 1958), Japanese keyboardist, songwriter and music producer
 * Tetsuya Kumakawa (熊川 哲也), Japanese ballet dancer
 * Tetsuya Makita (哲也, born 1984), Japanese actor
 * Tetsuya Matoyama (哲也, born 1970), Japanese professional baseball catcher
 * Tetsuya Matsumoto (松本 哲也), Japanese baseball player
 * Tetsuya Mizuguchi (哲也, born 1965), Japanese video game designer and producer
 * Tetsuya Murayama (村山 哲也), Japanese football manager
 * Tetsuya Naito (哲也, born 1982), Japanese professional wrestler
 * Tetsuya Nakashima (哲也, born 1959), Japanese film director
 * Nishikigi Tetsuya (錦木 徹也), Japanese sumo wrestler
 * Tetsuya Noda (野田 哲也), Japanese artist, printmaker and educator
 * Tetsuya Nomura (哲也, born 1970), Japanese video game director
 * Tetsuya Ōkubo (大久保 哲哉, born 1980) is a Japanese football player
 * Tetsuya Ota (哲也, born 1959), Japanese racecar driver
 * Tetsuya Saito (斉藤 哲也), Japanese ice hockey player
 * Tetsuya Saruwatari (哲也, born 1958), Japanese manga artist
 * Tetsuya Shibata (徹也, born 1973), video game music composer
 * Tetsuya Shimizu (清水 哲也, born 1983), Japanese professional wrestler
 * Tetsuya Shikawa 鉄也, Japanese politician
 * Tetsuya Shiroo (哲彌, born 1948), Japanese yakuza
 * Tetsuya Takahashi (哲哉, born 1966), Japanese video game creator
 * Tetsuya Takeda (鉄矢), Japanese singer and actor
 * Tetsuya Takehora (竹洞哲也, born 1974) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
 * Tetsuya Tanaka (田中哲也, born 1965) is a Japanese racing driver
 * Tetsuya Totsuka (戸塚 哲也), Japanese footballer and manager
 * Tetsuya Utsumi (内海 哲也, born 1982) is a Japanese professional baseball player
 * Tetsuya Wakuda (哲也, born 1959), Japanese-born Australian chef
 * Tetsuya Watari (哲也, born 1941), Japanese stage, film, and television actor
 * Tetsuya Yamagami (山上 徹也), the only suspect in the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe
 * Tetsuya Yamaguchi (山口 鉄也), Japanese baseball player
 * Tetsuya Yamamoto (山本 哲哉), Japanese baseball player
 * Tetsuya Yanagisawa (テツヤ), Japanese anime director
 * Tetsuya Yoneda (哲也, born 1938), Japanese professional baseball pitcher
 * Tetsuya Yoroizaka (鎧坂 哲哉), Japanese long-distance runner

Fictional characters

 * Tetsuya Azuma (鉄也), protagonist of the 1973 anime series Casshan and of the 2004 film Casshern
 * Tetsuya Kajiwara (Fushigi Yūgi) (哲也), in the manga and anime series Fushigi Yūgi
 * Tetsuya Kuroko, the protagonist of the manga and anime series Kuroko's Basketball
 * Tetsuya Kijiyama, a childhood friend of Torao in the manga series Gender-Swap at the Delinquent Academy
 * Tetsuya Sendo, a friend of Ritsu Kasanoda in the manga and anime series Ouran High School Host Club
 * Tetsuya Takahashi, in Haruki Murakami's novel After Dark
 * Tetsuya Tsurugi (鉄也), the protagonist of manga and anime series Great Mazinger
 * Tetsuya Watarigani, a recurring character in the anime series Beyblade: Metal Fusion
 * Tetsuya Yuuki (哲也), in the manga and anime series Ace of Diamond
 * Tetsuya, Japanese name of Tyson from Pokémon: Advanced Battle
 * Tetsuya Yano, a character from Choujuu Sentai Liveman
 * Tetsuya from Yokai Watch