{{Infobox Given Name Revised | name = Hideki | image= Hideki Matsui in USA-7.jpg{{!}}border | imagesize= | caption= Hideki Matsui, a Japanese baseball player | pronunciation= Hí-dè-kí. Can have different pronunciations depending on the language used. | gender = Male | meaning = It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used. | region = | language = Japanese | origin = Japan | related names = Hideaki, Hideo | footnotes = }} {{nihongo|'''Hideki'''|ひでき, ヒデキ}} is a common masculine Japanese given name.
== Written forms == Hideki can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *秀樹, "excellence", "timber trees" *英樹, "superior", "timber trees" *英機, "superior", "chance" *秀喜, "excellence", "pleasure" *秀紀, "excellence", "chronicle" *英輝, "superior", "brightness" *英希, "superior", "hope" The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
==People with the name== Notable people with the name include:
*{{Nihongo|Hideki Arai|新井 英樹||born 1963}}, Japanese manga artist *{{Nihongo|Asanoyama Hideki|朝乃山 英樹||born 1994}}, Japanese sumo wrestler *{{Nihongo|Hideki Chihara|千原 英喜||born 1957}}, Japanese composer *{{Nihongo|Hideki Fujii|藤井 秀樹||1934–2010}}, Japanese photographer *{{Nihongo|Hideki Fujisawa|藤沢 秀樹||born 1963}}, also known as Dance☆Man, Japanese musician *{{Nihongo|Hideki Hamaguchi|浜口 秀樹||born 1956}}, Japanese basketball player *{{Nihongo|Hideki Hosaka|保坂 秀樹||1971–2021}}, Japanese professional wrestler *{{Nihongo|Hideki Imai|今井 秀樹||born 1943}}, Japanese information theorist and cryptographer *{{Nihongo|Hideki Imamura|今村 栄喜||born 1972}}, Japanese musician, co-founder and vocalist of the band Siam Shade *{{Nihongo|Hideki Irabu|伊良部 秀輝||1969–2011}}, Japanese professional baseball player who played in both Japan and the United States *{{Nihongo|Hideki Ishige|石毛 秀樹||born 1994}}, Japanese footballer *{{Nihongo|Hideki Ishima|石間 秀機||born 1944}}, Japanese musician *{{Nihongo|Hideki Kadowaki|門脇 英基||born 1976}}, Japanese mixed martial artist *{{Nihongo|Hideki Kamiya|神谷 英樹||born 1970}}, Japanese video game designer *{{Nihongo|Hideki Kase|加瀬 秀樹||born 1959}}, Japanese professional golfer *{{Nihongo|Kato Hideki|加藤 英樹||born 1962}}, Japanese musician and composer *{{Nihongo|Hideki Kita|喜多 秀喜||born 1952}}, retired Japanese long-distance runner *{{Nihongo|Hideki Komatsu|小松英樹||born 1967}}, Japanese Go player *{{Nihongo|Hideki Maeda|前田 秀樹||born 1954}}, Japanese footballer and manager *{{Nihongo|Hideki Makihara|牧原 秀樹||born 1971}}, Japanese politician *{{Nihongo|Hideki Matsui|松井 秀喜||born 1974}}, Japanese baseball player *{{Nihongo|Hideki Matsutake|松武 秀樹||born 1951}}, Japanese electronic musician *{{Nihongo|Hideki Matsuoka|松岡 秀樹||born 1968}}, Japanese Go player *{{Nihongo|Hideki Matsuyama|松山 英樹||born 1992}}, Japanese golfer *{{Nihongo|Hideki Mitsui|三井 秀樹||born 1963}}, Japanese screenwriter *{{Nihongo|Hideki Miyazaki|宮崎 秀基||born 1962}}, Japanese Nordic combined skier *{{Nihongo|Hideki Mori|森 秀樹||born 1961}}, Japanese manga artist *{{Nihongo|Hideki Murai|村井 英樹||born 1980}}, Japanese politician *{{Nihongo|Hideki Mutoh|武藤 英紀||born 1982}}, Japanese race car driver *{{Nihongo|Hideki Nagai|永井 秀樹||born 1971}}, Japanese footballer and manager *{{Nihongo|Hideki Nagano|永野 英樹||born 1968}}, Japanese classical pianist *{{Nihongo|Hideki Naganuma|長沼 英樹||born 1972}}, Japanese video game music composer *{{Nihongo|Hideki Nakano|中野 秀樹||born 1952}}, Japanese Nordic combined skier *{{Nihongo|Hideki Nanba|難波 英樹||born 1974}}, Japanese rugby union player *{{Nihongo|Hideki Niwa|丹羽 秀樹||born 1972}}, Japanese politician *{{Nihongo|Hideki Niizuma|新妻 秀規||born 1970}}, Japanese politician *{{Nihongo|Hideki Noda|野田 英樹||born 1969}}, Japanese racing driver *{{Nihongo|Hideki Noda (playwright)|野田 秀樹||born 1955}}, Japanese actor, playwright and theatre director *{{Nihongo|Hideki Okada|岡田 秀樹||born 1958}}, Japanese racing driver *{{Nihongo|Hideki Okajima|岡島 秀樹||born 1974}}, Japanese baseball player *{{Nihongo|Hideki Omoto|大元 英照||born 1984}}, Japanese rower *{{Nihongo|Hideki Saijo|西城 秀樹||1955–2018}}, Japanese singer and television celebrity *{{Nihongo|Hideki Sakamoto|坂本 英城||born 1972}}, Japanese music composer *{{Nihongo|Hideki Seo|瀬尾 英樹||born 1974}}, Japanese-born fashion designer *{{Nihongo|Hideki Shingō|新郷 英城||1911–1982}}, Japanese fighter pilot officer *{{Nihongo|Hideki Shirakawa|白川 英樹||born 1936}}, Japanese chemist and winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry *{{Nihongo|Hideki Sunaga|須永 英輝||born 1985}}, Japanese baseball player *{{Nihongo|Hideki Suzuki|鈴木 秀樹||born 1980}}, Japanese professional wrestler *{{Nihongo|Hideki Tachibana|橘 秀樹}}, Japanese writer and anime director *{{Nihongo|Hideki Takahashi|高橋 英樹||born 1944}}, Japanese actor *{{Nihongo|Hideki Tasaka|田坂 秀樹||born 1975}}, Japanese voice actor *{{Nihongo|Hideki Todaka|戸高 秀樹||born 1973}}, Japanese boxer *{{Nihongo|Hideki Togi|東儀 秀樹||born 1959}}, Japanese composer, gagaku musician, and actor *{{Nihongo|Hideki Tojo|東條 英機||1884–1948}}, Japanese Prime Minister during World War II *{{Nihongo|Hideki Uchidate|内舘 秀樹||born 1974}}, Japanese footballer *{{Nihongo|Hideki Yamauchi|山内 英輝||born 1988}}, Japanese racing driver *{{Nihongo|Hideki Yuasa|湯浅 秀樹||born 1964}}, Japanese naval officer *{{Nihongo|Hideki Yukawa|湯川 秀樹||1907–1981}}, Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate
==Fictional characters== * Hideki Motosuwa (本須和秀樹), a character in the manga series ''Chobits'' * Hideki, a character in the anime series ''Devil Hunter Yohko'' * Hideki Go, the alter ego of Ultraman Jack from the 1971 tokusatsu film ''The Return of Ultraman'' * Ryūga Hideki (流河 旱樹), an alias for L from the manga ''Death Note'' * Hideki Nishimura, a character in the light novel series ''And You Thought There Is Never a Girl Online?'' * Hideki Kurohagi, the secondary antagonist of the anime miniseries ''Marvel Anime: Wolverine''
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