Toshio

Toshio is a common masculine Japanese given name.

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


 * 敏夫, "agile, man"
 * 敏男, "agile, man"
 * 敏雄, "agile, male"
 * 俊夫, "sagacious, man"
 * 俊雄, "sagacious, male"
 * 利生, "advantage, life"
 * 寿雄, "long life, male"
 * 登志男, "ascend, intention, man"

The name can also be written in hiragana としお or katakana トシオ.

Notable people with the name

 * Toshio Fukumoto (福元 寿夫), Japanese water polo player
 * Toshio Furukawa (古川 登志夫, born 1946), Japanese voice actor
 * Toshio Gotō (後藤 俊夫, born 1938), Japanese film director
 * Toshio Iwai (岩井 俊雄, born 1962), Japanese interactive media and installation artist
 * Toshio Iwatani (岩谷 俊夫), Japanese footballer
 * Toshio Jingu (神宮 敏男), Japanese fencer
 * Toshio Kakei (筧 利夫, born 1962), Japanese actor
 * Toshio Kimura (木村 俊夫, 1909–1983), Japanese politician
 * Toshio Maeda (前田 俊夫, born 1953), Japanese manga artist
 * Toshio Masuda (舛田 利雄, born 1927), Japanese film director
 * Toshio Matsumoto (松本 俊夫), Japanese film director
 * Toshio Matsumoto (dancer) (松本 利夫), Japanese dancer and actor
 * Toshio Motoya (元谷 外志雄), Japanese writer, publisher and businessman
 * Toshio Nakanishi, a Japanese musician and an artist
 * Tosiwo Nakayama (中山 利雄, 1931–2003), first president of the Federated States of Micronesia
 * Toshio Odate (トシオ・オダテ, born 1930), Japanese-born American sculptor
 * Toshio Ogawa (小川 敏夫, born 1948), Japanese politician
 * Toshio Shibata (柴田 敏雄, born 1949), Japanese photographer
 * Toshio Shimao (島尾 敏雄, 1917–1986), Japanese novelist
 * Toshio Suzuki (driver) (鈴木 利男, born 1955), Japanese racing driver
 * Toshio Suzuki (producer) (鈴木 敏夫, born 1948), chief producer of the Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli
 * Toshio Tamogami (田母神 俊雄, born 1948), Japanese Air Self-Defense Force career military officer
 * Toshio Tosanoumi (土佐ノ海 敏生, born 1972), Japanese sumo wrestler
 * Toshio Ukishima (浮島 敏男), Japanese politician
 * Toshio Takahashi (高橋 敏夫), Japanese water polo player
 * Toshio Wakita (脇田 寿雄), Japanese bobsledder
 * Toshio Yamada (山田 俊男), Japanese politician
 * Toshio Yamaguchi (山口 敏夫), Japanese politician
 * Toshio Yamane (山根 敏郎, born 1953), Japanese photographer
 * Toshio Narahashi (トシオ・ナラハシ, 1927–2013), Japanese-born American pharmacologist

Fictional characters

 * Toshio Ozaki (尾崎 敏夫), a protagonist in the horror novel/manga/anime series Shiki.
 * Toshio Saeki (Ju-on) (佐伯 俊雄), a main antagonist in the Japanese horror series 'Ju-on'
 * Toshio Utsumi (内海 俊夫), a character in the anime and manga series Cat's Eye