# Toshio

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**Toshio** is a common masculine [Japanese given name](/source/Japanese_given_name).

## Written forms

Toshio can be written using different [kanji](/source/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](/source/Hiragana) としお or [katakana](/source/Katakana) トシオ.

## Notable people with the name

- [Toshio Fukumoto](/source/Toshio_Fukumoto) (福元 寿夫, born 1960), Japanese water polo player
- [Toshio Furukawa](/source/Toshio_Furukawa) (古川 登志夫, born 1946), Japanese voice actor
- [Toshio Gotō](/source/Toshio_Got%C5%8D) (後藤 俊夫, born 1938), Japanese film director
- [Toshio Iwai](/source/Toshio_Iwai) (岩井 俊雄, born 1962), Japanese interactive media and installation artist
- [Toshio Iwatani](/source/Toshio_Iwatani) (岩谷 俊夫, 1925–1970), Japanese footballer
- [Toshio Jingu](/source/Toshio_Jingu) (神宮 敏男, born 1948), Japanese fencer
- [Toshio Kakei](/source/Toshio_Kakei) (筧 利夫, born 1962), Japanese actor
- [Toshio Kimura](/source/Toshio_Kimura) (木村 俊夫, 1909–1983), Japanese politician
- [Toshio Maeda](/source/Toshio_Maeda) (前田 俊夫, born 1953), Japanese [manga artist](/source/Mangaka)
- [Toshio Masuda](/source/Toshio_Masuda_(director)) (舛田 利雄, born 1927), Japanese film director
- [Toshio Matsumoto](/source/Toshio_Matsumoto) (松本 俊夫, 1932–2017), Japanese film director
- [Toshio Matsumoto (dancer)](/source/Toshio_Matsumoto_(dancer)) (松本 利夫, born 1975), Japanese dancer and actor
- [Toshio Motoya](/source/Toshio_Motoya) (元谷 外志雄, born 1943), Japanese writer, publisher and businessman
- [Toshio Nakanishi](/source/Toshio_Nakanishi), a Japanese musician and an artist
- [Tosiwo Nakayama](/source/Tosiwo_Nakayama) (中山 利雄, 1931–2003), first president of the [Federated States of Micronesia](/source/Federated_States_of_Micronesia)
- [Toshio Odate](/source/Toshio_Odate) (トシオ・オダテ, born 1930), Japanese-born American sculptor
- [Toshio Ogawa](/source/Toshio_Ogawa) (小川 敏夫, born 1948), Japanese politician
- [Toshio Shibata](/source/Toshio_Shibata) (柴田 敏雄, born 1949), Japanese photographer
- [Toshio Shimao](/source/Toshio_Shimao) (島尾 敏雄, 1917–1986), Japanese novelist
- [Toshio Suzuki (driver)](/source/Toshio_Suzuki_(driver)) (鈴木 利男, born 1955), Japanese racing driver
- [Toshio Suzuki (producer)](/source/Toshio_Suzuki_(producer)) (鈴木 敏夫, born 1948), chief producer of the Japanese animation studio *[Studio Ghibli](/source/Studio_Ghibli)*
- [Toshio Tamogami](/source/Toshio_Tamogami) (田母神 俊雄, born 1948), Japanese Air Self-Defense Force career military officer
- [Toshio Tosanoumi](/source/Tosanoumi_Toshio) (土佐ノ海 敏生, born 1972), Japanese sumo wrestler
- [Toshio Ukishima](/source/Toshio_Ukishima) (浮島 敏男, born 1949), Japanese politician
- [Toshio Takahashi](/source/Toshio_Takahashi) (高橋 敏夫, born 1949), Japanese water polo player
- [Toshio Wakita](/source/Toshio_Wakita) (脇田 寿雄, born 1965), Japanese bobsledder
- [Toshio Yamada](/source/Toshio_Yamada) (山田 俊男, born 1946), Japanese politician
- [Toshio Yamaguchi](/source/Toshio_Yamaguchi) (山口 敏夫, born 1940), Japanese politician
- [Toshio Yamane](/source/Toshio_Yamane) (山根 敏郎, born 1953), Japanese photographer
- [Toshio Narahashi](/source/Toshio_Narahashi) (トシオ・ナラハシ, 1927–2013), Japanese-born American pharmacologist

## Fictional characters

- Toshio Ozaki (尾崎 敏夫), a protagonist in the horror novel/manga/anime series *[Shiki](/source/Shiki_(novel_series))*.
- [Toshio Saeki (Ju-on)](/source/Toshio_Saeki_(Ju-on)) (佐伯 俊雄), a main antagonist in the Japanese horror series *[*Ju-on*](/source/Ju-on_(franchise))*
- Toshio Utsumi (内海 俊夫), a character in the anime and manga series *[Cat's Eye](/source/Cat's_Eye_(manga))*

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