Tetsuya is a masculine Japanese name, Japanese given name.

Written forms

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 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 *, Japanese shogi player * Ted Fujita, Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita (哲也, 1920–1998), Japanese severe storms researcher * , 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 *, Japanese footballer * Tetsuya Iwanaga (voice actor), 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 *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese baseball player * Tetsuya Komuro (哲哉, born 1958), Japanese keyboardist, songwriter and music producer *, Japanese ballet dancer * Tetsuya Makita (哲也, born 1984), Japanese actor * Tetsuya Matoyama (哲也, born 1970), Japanese professional baseball catcher *, Japanese baseball player * Tetsuya Mizuguchi (哲也, born 1965), Japanese video game designer and producer *, Japanese football manager * Tetsuya Naito (哲也, born 1982), Japanese professional wrestler * Tetsuya Nakashima (哲也, born 1959), Japanese film director *, Japanese sumo wrestler *, 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 *, Japanese ice hockey player * Tetsuya Saruwatari (哲也, born 1958), Japanese manga artist * Tetsuya Shibata (徹也, born 1973), video game music composer * Tetsuya Bushi, Tetsuya Shimizu (清水哲也, born 1983), Japanese professional wrestler * Tetsuya Shiokawa, 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 (racing driver), Tetsuya Tanaka (田中哲也, born 1965) is a Japanese racing driver *, 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 *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese baseball player * Tetsuya Yanagisawa (テツヤ), Japanese anime director * Tetsuya Yoneda (哲也, born 1938), Japanese professional baseball pitcher *, Japanese long-distance runner

Fictional characters

* Tetsuya Azuma (鉄也), protagonist of the 1973 anime series ''Neo-Human Casshern, Casshan'' and of the 2004 film ''Casshern (film), Casshern'' * Tetsuya Kajiwara (Fushigi Yūgi) (哲也), in the manga and anime series ''Fushigi Yūgi'' * List of Kuroko%27s Basketball characters#Seirin High, Tetsuya Kuroko, the protagonist of the manga and anime series ''Kuroko's Basketball'' * 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 (Murakami novel), After Dark'' * Tetsuya Tsurugi (鉄也), the protagonist of manga and anime series ''Great Mazinger'' * List of Beyblade characters#Tetsuya Watarigani, 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'' * List of Pokémon characters#Tyson, Tetsuya, Japanese name of Tyson from ''Pokémon: Advanced Battle'' * Tetsuya Yano, a character from ''Choujuu Sentai Liveman'' * Tetsuya from ''Yokai Watch''

Written forms

People with the name

Fictional characters

See also