Toshio
Toshio 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, Japanese sumo wrestler
- Toshio Fukumoto, Japanese water polo player
- Toshio Furukawa, Japanese voice actor
- Toshio Gotō, Japanese film director
- Toshio Iwai, Japanese interactive media and installation artist
- Toshio Iwatani, Japanese footballer
- Toshio Jingu, Japanese fencer
- Toshio Kakei, Japanese actor
- Toshio Kimura, Japanese politician
- Toshio Kobayashi, Japanese voice actor
- Toshio Maeda, Japanese manga artist
- Toshio Masuda, Japanese film director
- Toshio Matsumoto, Japanese film director
- Toshio Matsumoto, Japanese dancer and actor
- Toshio Motoya, Japanese writer, publisher and businessman
- Toshio Nakanishi, a Japanese musician and an artist
- Tosiwo Nakayama, first president of the Federated States of Micronesia
- Toshio Shibata, Japanese photographer
- Toshio Shimao, Japanese novelist
- Toshio Suzuki , Japanese racing driver
- Toshio Suzuki , chief producer of the Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli
- Toshio Ukishima, Japanese politician
- Toshio Takahashi, Japanese water polo player
- Toshio Wakita, Japanese bobsledder
- Toshio Yamada, Japanese politician
- Toshio Yamaguchi, Japanese politician
- Toshio Yamane, Japanese photographer
Fictional characters
- Toshio Ozaki, a protagonist in the horror novel/manga/anime series Shiki.
- Toshio Saeki , a main antagonist in the Japanese horror series 'Ju-on'
- Toshio Utsumi, a character in the anime and manga series Cat's Eye