Hosokawa
Hosokawa is a Japanese surname.
People with the name include:
- Bill Hosokawa, Japanese American author and journalist
- Chieko Hosokawa, a Japanese manga artist
- Daisuke Hosokawa, Japanese swimmer
- Fumie Hosokawa, Japanese actress
- Hajime Hosokawa, Japanese doctor who discovered Minamata disease
- Junya Hosokawa, Japanese footballer
- Kazuhiko Hosokawa, Japanese golfer
- Kozo Hosokawa, Japanese footballer
- Naomi Hosokawa, Japanese actress
- Ritsuo Hosokawa, Japanese politician
- Sachio Hosokawa, Japanese sport shooter
- Seika Hosokawa, Japanese voice actress
- Seiya Hosokawa, Japanese baseball player
- Shigeki Hosokawa, Japanese actor and former model
- Shinji Hosokawa, Japanese judoka
- Takahiro Hosokawa, Japanese rugby union player
- Takashi Hosokawa, Japanese singer
- Toru Hosokawa, Japanese baseball player
- Toshio Hosokawa, Japanese composer of contemporary classical music
- Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Japanese actor
The Hosokawa clan were a powerful shugo daimyō in Japan.
- Hosokawa Akiuji, samurai general in the service of the Ashikaga Northern Court, during Nanboku-cho period
- Hosokawa Fujitaka, member of the Ashikaga court
- Hosokawa Gracia, childhood name Tama, Japanese noblewoman and wife of Hosokawa Tadaoki
- Hosokawa Harumoto, head of Hosokawa clan at the end of the Muromachi period
- Hosokawa Katsumoto, one of the Kanrei during Japan's Muromachi Period
- Hosokawa Masamoto a Deputy-Shōgun, sun of Katsumoto
- Hosokawa Mitsunao, a daimyō of the early Edo period.
- Morihiro Hosokawa, 79th Prime Minister of Japan
- Morimitsu Hosokawa, Japanese potter
- Hosokawa Narishige, daimyō of the Edo period
- Hosokawa Sumimoto, military commander in the Muromachi period
- Hosokawa Sumiyuki, a notable daimyō of the Awa province
- Hosokawa Tadaoki, lord of Tango province, son of Hosokawa Fujitaka
- Hosokawa Tadatoshi, daimyo of the early Edo period
- Hosokawa Takakuni, military commander in the Muromachi period
- Hosokawa Tatsutaka, samurai of the early Edo period
- Hosokawa Ujitsuna was a military commander at the end of the Muromachi period