Toshio

Toshio (利夫, としお, トシオ) 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, hero"
• 俊夫, "sagacious, man"
• 俊雄, "sagacious, hero"
• 利生, "advantage, life"
• 登志男, "ascend, intention, man"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People[]

• Tosanoumi Toshio (敏生, born 1972), Japanese sumo wrestler
• Toshio Fukumoto (福元 寿夫, born 1960), Japanese water polo player
• Toshio Furukawa (登志夫, born 1946), Japanese voice actor
• Toshio Gotō (俊夫, born 1938), Japanese film director
• Toshio Iwai (俊雄, born 1962), Japanese interactive media and installation artist
• Toshio Iwatani (岩谷 俊夫, 1925–1970), Japanese footballer
• Toshio Jingu (神宮 敏男, born 1948), Japanese fencer
• Toshio Kakei (利夫, born 1962), Japanese actor
• Toshio Kimura (1909 – 1983), Japanese politician
• Toshio Kobayashi (俊夫, born 1932–2016), Japanese actress
• Toshio Maeda (前田俊夫, born 1953), Japanese manga artist
• Toshio Masuda (利雄, born 1927), Japanese film director
• Toshio Matsumoto (松本 俊夫, 1932–2017), Japanese film director
• Toshio Matsumoto (dancer) (松本 利夫, born 1975), Japanese dancer and actor
• Toshio Motoya (元谷 外志雄, born 1943), Japanese writer, publisher and businessman
• Toshio Nakanishi, a Japanese musician and an artist
• Tosiwo Nakayama (利雄, 1931–2003), first president of the Federated States of Micronesia
• Toshio Odate (born 1930), sculptor, Japanese woodworker
• Toshio Shibata (敏雄, born 1949), Japanese photographer
• Toshio Shimao (敏雄, 1917–1986), Japanese novelist
• Toshio Suzuki (driver) (利男, born 1955), Japanese racing driver
• Toshio Suzuki (producer) (敏夫, born 1948), chief producer of the Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli
• Toshio Ukishima (浮島 敏男, born 1949), Japanese politician
• Toshio Takahashi (高橋 敏夫, born 1949), Japanese water polo player
• Toshio Wakita (脇田 寿雄, born 1965), Japanese bobsledder
• Toshio Yamada (山田 俊男, born 1946), Japanese politician
• Toshio Yamaguchi (山口 敏夫, born 1940), Japanese politician
• Toshio Yamane (敏郎, born 1953), Japanese photographer

Fictional characters[]

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

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