is a Japanese masculine given name and family name meaning "dragon", "noble", "prosperous", or "flow". Ryū, Ryu, or ryu may also refer to:
Fiction
*
''Ryū'' (manga), a 1986 series by Masao Yajima and Akira Oze
* , a 1919 book by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
* ''
Monthly Comic Ryū'', a manga magazine in Japan
Characters
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Ryu (''Breath of Fire''), the protagonist in the ''Breath of Fire'' series
*
Ryu (''Street Fighter''), a leading character in the ''Street Fighter'' franchise
*
Ryu Hayabusa, the protagonist in the ''Ninja Gaiden'' series
* Ryu Higashi, a character from ''
J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai''
*
Ryu Jose, a character from ''Mobile Suit Gundam''
*
Ryu Kumon, a minor character in ''Ranma 1/2''
* Ryu Nakanishi,
Science Ninja Team member G-5
* Ryu Tanaka, a character from ''
Haikyuu!!''
* Ryu Tendoh, a character from ''Choujin Sentai Jetman''
* Ryū Tsuji, a character from ''
Special A''
*
"Wooden Sword" Ryu, a ''Shaman King'' character
* A
character from ''Fist of the North Star''
People
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Chishū Ryū
was a Japanese actor who, in a career lasting 65 years, appeared in over 160 films and about 70 television productions.
Early life
Ryū was born in Tamamizu Village, Tamana County, a rural area of Kumamoto Prefecture in Kyushu, the most southe ...
(笠 智衆, 1904–1993), Japanese actor
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Hirofumi Ryu
is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
Career
A native of Fukuoka city and graduate of the Faculty of Letters at Keio University, Ryu was elected ...
(笠 浩史, born 1965), Japanese politician
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Ryu Fujisaki
is a Japanese manga artist and author from Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture.
He won prizes in 39th and the 40th Tezuka Awards. He made his professional manga debut with ''WORLDS'' in 1990. All of his works are published by Shueisha under their Shō ...
(藤崎 竜, born 1971), Japanese manga artist
* Ryu Lee, an alternate ring name of the Mexican wrestler
Dragon Lee
*
Ryu Matsumoto
was a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Fukuoka, Fukuoka and graduate of Chuo University, he was elected to the House of Representatives ...
(松本 龍, born 1951), Japanese politician
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Ryu Shionoya is a Japanese masculine given name and family name meaning "dragon", "noble", "prosperous", or "flow". Ryū, Ryu, or ryu may also refer to:
Fiction
* ''Ryū'' (manga), a 1986 series by Masao Yajima and Akira Oze
* , a 1919 book by Ryūnosuke Aku ...
(塩谷 立, born 1950), Japanese politician
* Ryu, a member of the musical group
Styles of Beyond
Styles of Beyond was an American underground hip hop group from the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. The group consists of MCs Ryan Patrick Maginn (Ryu) and Takbir Bashir (Tak), Colton Raisin Fisher ( DJ Cheapshot), and produce ...
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Ryutaro Nakahara
, better known by his stage name Ryu, is a Japanese record producer, DJ, musician and arranger. In 2000, Ryu, along with kors k won a contest started by Konami, in which composers were to make music such that the winners would get their songs i ...
(Ryu☆), Japanese musician and DJ
Other uses
* Ryū, the word for a
Japanese dragon
Japanese dragons (, ''Nihon no ryū'') are diverse legendary creatures in Japanese mythology and folklore. Japanese dragon myths amalgamate native legends with imported stories about dragons from China, Korea and the Indian subcontinent. The ...
*
Ryū (school), a school of thought or discipline (for example a fighting school)
* ryu, the ISO 639-3 code for the
Okinawan language
The Okinawan language (, , , ) or Central Okinawan, is a Northern Ryukyuan language spoken primarily in the southern half of the island of Okinawa, as well as in the surrounding islands of Kerama, Kumejima, Tonaki, Aguni and a number of sma ...
* Ryu SDN, an open source component-based
Software-defined networking
Software-defined networking (SDN) technology is an approach to network management that enables dynamic, programmatically efficient network configuration in order to improve network performance and monitoring, making it more like cloud computing t ...
framework
See also
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Ryu (Korean name)
Yoo or You, or sometimes Ryu or Ryoo is the English transcription of several Korean surnames written as or in hangul. As of 2000, roughly a million people are surnamed Yoo in South Korea, making up approximately 2% of the population. Of those, ...
(유 or 류 / 柳, 劉, 兪, 庾), a common Korean family name
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{{disambiguation, given name, surname
Japanese masculine given names