is a common masculine Japanese given name. It can also be transliterated as Hirosi.

Written forms

Hiroshi can be written using different kanji characters. Here are some examples: *浩, "wide expanse, abundance, vigorous" *弘, "vast, broad, wide" *宏, "wide, large" *寛, "tolerant, leniency, generosity, relax" *洋, "ocean, sea, foreign, Western style" *博, "large, wide, wise" *大, "large, big" *広志, "wide, broad, spacious" and "intention, plan, resolve, aspire, hopes" *博司, "large, wide, wise" and "director, official, govt office, rule, administer" *博史, "large, wide, wise" and "history, chronicle"

People with the name

*, Japanese comedian *Hiroshi Abe (disambiguation), multiple people *, Japanese actor *, Japanese astronomer *Hiroshi Abe (war criminal), Hiroshi Abe (born 1922), Japanese war criminal *, Japanese Japanese physicist, engineer, Nobel Prize winner *, Japanese screenwriter and film director *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese author, polymath, critic, translator *, Japanese actor *, Japanese musician, trendsetter, producer, and designer *, Japanese handball player *Hiroshi Hara (disambiguation), multiple people *Hiroshi Hashimoto (disambiguation), multiple people *Hiroshi Honda (disambiguation), multiple people *, Japanese ice hockey player *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese bobsledder *, Japanese film director *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese diplomat *, Japanese electrical engineer *, Japanese lepidopterist *, Japanese botanist *, Japanese ski jumper *Hiroshi Ito (disambiguation), multiple people *, Japanese enka singer *, Japanese golfer *, Japanese professional baseball player *Hiroshi Kajiyama (disambiguation), multiple people *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese shogi player *Hiroshi Kashiwagi (1922–2019), American poet, playwright and actor *, Japanese footballer and manager *, Japanese aikidoka *, Japanese actor *, Japanese actor *, Japanese video game composer *, Japanese boxer *, Japanese businessman *, Japanese singer *, Japanese shogi player *Hiroshi Kobayashi (shogi, born 1976), Japanese shogi player *, Japanese announcer and television presenter *Hiroshi Lockheimer, a Japanese German software engineer and one of the founding members of the Android team at Google *, Japanese freestyle skier *Hiroshi Masuoka (disambiguation), multiple people *Hiroshi Matsumoto (disambiguation), multiple people *, Japanese gymnast *, Japanese ice hockey player *, Japanese actor *, President and CEO of Rakuten *, Japanese politician *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese actor *Hiroshi H. Miyamura (1925–2022), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient *Hiroshi Mori (disambiguation), multiple people *, better known as Heath, Japanese musician *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese jazz drummer * Japanese singer, a member of boy band V6 (band), V6 * Hiroshi Naganuma, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese boxer *, Mayor of Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan *, Japanese football player *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese comedian *, Japanese director *, Japanese baseball player and convicted murderer *Hiroshi Okamura, Japanese mathematician *, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese theoretical physicist *, Japanese screenwriter and novelist *Hiroshi Ōshima, Japanese general and diplomat *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese basketball player *, Japanese diplomat *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese politician from Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture *, Japanese mathematician *, Japanese politician from Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture *, Japanese pentathlete *, Japanese rower *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese director of several anime and manga series *, Japanese curler and curling coach *, Japanese screenwriter *, Japanese table tennis player *, pen name of Kaoru Kishiue, Japanese writer *Hiroshi Shimizu (disambiguation), multiple people *, Japanese voice actor *Hiroshi Suzuki (disambiguation), multiple people *, Japanese actor *, Japanese architect *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese table tennis player *, Japanese voice actor *Takeya Hiroshi, Hiroshi Takeya, a professor and physician in Japan *, Japanese television presenter *, Japanese actor *Hiroshi Tanahashi (棚橋弘至, born 1976), Japanese professional wrestler *, Japanese figure skater and coach *, Japanese high jumper *, Japanese filmmaker *, Japanese rower *, Japanese actor *, Japanese archaeologist and anthropologist *, former Yokozuna in sumo *Hiroshi Watanabe (disambiguation), multiple people *, Japanese politician *, samurai, politician and educator *, Japanese archer *, Japanese politician *Hiroshi Yamamoto (shogi), Japanese shogi player *, Japanese naval officer *, Japanese cyclist *, Japanese professional wrestler *, former president of Nintendo *, Japanese photographer *, Japanese weightlifter *, Japanese economist *, Japanese musician and composer *, Japanese author (of books such as Math Girls) and computer programmer

People with the surname

* Sandro Hiroshi, Japanese-Brazilian footballer

Fictional characters

*Hiroshi (Gaeru), the protagonist of ''Dokonjō Gaeru'' *Hiroshi (Pokémon), known in English as Ritchie (Pokémon), Ritchie, a character in the ''Pokémon'' anime *Hiroshi (Ranma), a character in ''Ranma ½'', one of Ranma's two friends, the other being Daisuke *Hiroshi (Sesame Street), an aspiring artist on ''Sesame Street'' played by Gedde Watanabe in the late 1980s/Early 1990s *Hiroshi, the main protagonist of the survival horror game ''Ao Oni'' *Hiroshi, a character in ''Durarara!'' *Hiroshi Abe, a character in ''Shonan Junai Gumi'' *Hiroshi Agasa (''Herschel Agasa'' in the English anime), in ''Case Closed: Detective Conan'' *Hiroshi Akiba, a character from the manga ''Inubaka'' *Hiroshi Fukuda, a character in ''Kuroko no Basuke'' *Hiroshi Fumihiro, from ''Initial D'' *Hiroshi Hayashi, a character in ''Yakuza (video game), Yakuza'' *Hiroshi Hirai, a character in ''Denshi Sentai Denziman'' *Hiroshi Hoshizora, a character from the anime ''Smile PreCure!'' *Hiroshi Ichikawa, a character from ''Wild Strikers'' *Hiroshi Ichikawa, a character in the Manga and anime ''Kaibutsu-kun'' *Hiroshi Kochatani, a character in ''Great Teacher Onizuka'' *Hiroshi Kubo, a character from the novel ''Shiosai'' *Hiroshi Kuronaga, Boy #9 in ''Battle Royale (novel), Battle Royale'' *Hiroshi Matsumoto, a character in ''Miss Machiko'' *Hiroshi Morenos, a character from the anime ''Michiko & Hatchin'' *Hiroshi Mochizuki, a character in ''Kamen Rider ZO'' *Hiroshi Nakano (Gravitation), Hiroshi Nakano, a character in the Manga and anime ''Gravitation'' *Hiroshi Nitta, a character in ''Denjin Zaborger'' *Hiroshi Nohara (born c. 1960), father of the protagonist, Shinnosuke, in ''Crayon Shin-chan'' *Hiroshi Sakura, the father of the protagonist, Momoko Maruko, in ''Chibi Maruko-chan'' *Hiroshi Sato, Superior businessman, Equalist sympathizer, and father to Asami Sato in ''The Legend of Korra'' *Hiroshi Tennouji, the main villain in ''Kamen Rider Blade'' *Hiroshi Uchiyamada, a character in ''Great Teacher Onizuka'' *Hiroshi Udagawa, a fictional businessman in the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'' *Hiroshi Yushima, a character in ''Digimon Savers'' {{wiktionary, Hiroshi Japanese masculine given names Masculine given names