Takashi
Takashi is a male Japanese given name.Possible writings
The name Takashi can have multiple different meanings depending on which kanji is used to write it. Some possible writings of the name include:
- 江詩 - "estuary, inlet, poem"
- 隆 - "prosperous noble"
- 喬士 - "high, boasting, samurai, gentleman"
- 峻 - "high, steep"
- 崇史 - "adore, revere, chronicler, history"
- 孝 - "filial piety, serve parents"
- 節 - "moral courage, integrity"
- 傑 - "hero, outstanding"
Takashi can also be written in hiragana and/or katakana:
- タカシ
- たかし
People with the name
- Takashi Abe, Japanese shogi player
- Takashi Akatsuka, Japanese rugby union player
- Takashi Amano, Japanese photographer, aquarist and designer
- Takashi Aonishi, Japanese music artist
- Takashi Asahina, Japanese conductor
- Takashi Fujii, Japanese singer and comedian
- Takashi Hagino, Japanese actor
- Takashi Hara, Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan
- Takashi Hasegawa, Japanese electrical engineer and programmer
- Takashi Hashiguchi, Japanese manga artist
- Takashi Hikino, Japanese economist and educator
- Takashi Hiraide, Japanese poet and critic
- Takashi Hirose, Japanese writer
- Takashi "Halo" Hirose, American swimmer
- Takashi "Taka" Hirose, Japanese musician and chef
- Takashi Iizuka , Japanese video game director and designer
- Takashi Ikenaga, Japanese shogi player
- Takashi Ikenoue, Japanese handball player
- Takashi Inoue, Japanese actor
- Takashi Inoue, Japanese public relations practitioner, scholar and theorist
- Takashi Inukai, Japanese literature academic
- Takashi Ishii , Japanese film director, screenwriter and manga artist
- Takashi Ishii , Japanese baseball pitcher and coach
- Takashi Ishimoto, a Japanese swimmer
- Takashi Ito, Japanese kickboxer
- Takashi Itoyama, Japanese basketball player
- Takashi Kakihara, Japanese ice hockey player
- Takashi Kanezawa, Japanese shogi player
- Takashi Kato, Japanese handball player
- Takashi Kawamura , Japanese politician
- Takashi Kawano, Japanese footballer
- Takashi Kimura, multiple people
- Takashi Koizumi, Japanese film director
- Takashi Koshimoto, Japanese boxer
- Takashi Maruyama, Japanese volleyball player
- Masuda Takashi, Japanese industrialist, investor, and art collector
- Takashi Masuda, Japanese computer scientist
- Takashi Masuda, Japanese basketball player
- Takashi Matsuhashi, Japanese cross-country skier
- Takashi Matsumoto, multiple people
- Takashi Matsunaga, Japanese jazz pianist
- Takashi Matsuoka, Japanese-American writer
- Takashi Miike, Japanese filmmaker
- Takashi Mizuno, Japanese footballer
- Takashi Mizunuma, Japanese footballer and manager
- Takashi Murakami, Japanese contemporary artist
- Takashi Murayama, Japanese rower
- Takashi Nagai, Japanese physician and survivor of the Nagasaki bombing
- Takashi Nagasako, Japanese voice actor
- Takashi Nagatsuka, Japanese novelist and poet
- Takashi Nagayasu, Japanese politician
- Takashi Nakakura, Japanese mixed martial artist
- Takashi Nakamura, Japanese animator, and anime director
- Takashi Narita, Japanese former volleyball player
- Takashi Niigaki, Japanese music teacher
- Takashi Okamura, multiple people
- Takashi Ono, Japanese gymnast
- Takashi Onozuka, Japanese voice actor
- Takashi Ozaki, Japanese mountaineer
- Takashi Saito, Japanese baseball player
- Takashi Saito, Japanese footballer
- Takashi Saito, sumo wrestler who died due to injuries sustained in the Tokitsukaze stable hazing scandal
- Takashi Sakai, Japanese general
- Takashi Shimizu, Japanese filmmaker
- Takashi Shimoda, Japanese footballer
- Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor
- Takashi Sorimachi, Japanese singer and actor
- Takashi Tamura, Japanese sailor
- Takashi Tsuburai, Japanese ice hockey player
- Takashi Uemoto, Japanese baseball player
- Takashi Umeda, Japanese footballer
- Takashi Umezawa, Japanese footballer
- Takashi Watanabe, Japanese anime director
- Takashi Yamaguchi, Japanese architect
- Takashi Yamaguchi, Japanese actor
- Takashi Yanase, author of the picture book series Anpanman
- Takashi Yokoyama, Japanese racing driver
- Takashi Yokoyama, Japanese swimmer
- Takashi Yokoyama, Japanese water polo player
- Takashi Yoshida, better known as Cyber Kong, Japanese professional wrestler
- Takashi Yoshida, Japanese comedian
- Takashi Yoshimatsu, Japanese composer
- Takashi Yuasa, Japanese lawyer
- Ichinojō Takashi, Mongolian sumo wrestler
Fictional characters
- Takashi Ayanokoji a character from Pita Ten
- Takashi Hayase, a character from The Super Dimension Fortress Macross
- Takashi Kawamura, a character from The Prince of Tennis
- Takashi Komuro, a character from Highschool of the Dead
- Takashi Kurosawa, a character from The Hitman's Bodyguard
- Takashi Morinozuka, a character from Ouran High School Host Club
- Takashi Natsume, a character from Natsume's Book of Friends
- Takashi Ryugasaki, a character from Cyber Team in Akihabara
- Takashi 'Shiro' Shirogane, a character from
- Takashi Sone, a character from Haru yo, Koi
- Takashi Takeda, nicknamed "Jumbo", a character from Yotsuba&!
- Takashi Yamazaki, a character from Cardcaptor Sakura
