Toshio

 ( Japanese Masculine Given Names ) 

Toshio is a common masculine Japanese given name.

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Written forms 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.

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Notable people with the name

• born 1960, 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
• 1925–1970, Japanese footballer
• born 1948, 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 Mangaka
• Toshio Masuda (舛田 利雄, born 1927), Japanese film director
• 1932–2017, Japanese film director
• born 1975, Japanese dancer and actor
• born 1943, 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
• Tosanoumi Toshio (土佐ノ海 敏生, born 1972), Japanese sumo wrestler
• born 1949, Japanese politician
• born 1949, Japanese water polo player
• born 1965, Japanese bobsledder
• born 1946, Japanese politician
• born 1940, 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

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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

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