Yoshio

Yoshio is both a masculine Japanese given name and a Japanese surname. Notable people with the name include:

First name
  • Yoshio Abe (阿部 余四男, 1891–1960), Japanese zoologist
  • Yoshio Anabuki (1933–2018), Japanese former baseball player and former manager of the Nankai Hawks
  • Yoshio Fujiwara, former Japanese football player
  • Yoshio Fukuyama (1921–1995), theologian who holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Chicago
  • Yoshio Furukawa (born 1934), former Japanese football player
  • Yoshio Hachiro (born 1948), Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ)
  • Yoshio Harada (1940–2011), Japanese actor
  • Yoshio Hoshino (星野 好男, born 1950), Japanese ice hockey player
  • Yoshio Iimuro (飯室 芳男, born 1925), Japanese triple jumper
  • Yoshio Inaba (1920–1998), Japanese actor who played Gorobei in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai
  • Yoshio Ishida (born 1948), professional Go player
  • Yoshio Kōsaku (1724–1800), Japanese scholar of "Dutch studies", and the chief Dutch translator in Nagasaki
  • Yoshio Kato (born 1957), former Japanese football player
  • Yoshio Kawai (born 1954), Japanese voice actor
  • Yoshio Kikugawa (born 1944), former Japanese football player
  • Yoshio Kimura (born 1948), Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party
  • Yoshio Kimura (shogi) (1905–1986), Japanese shogi player
  • Yoshio Kitagawa (born 1978), former Japanese football player
  • Yoshio Kitajima (born 1975), Japanese football player
  • Yoshio Kodaira (1905–1949), Japanese rapist and serial killer
  • Yoshio Kodama (1911–1984), prominent figure in the rise of organized crime in Japan
  • Yoshio Koizumi (小泉 佳穂, born 1996), Japanese footballer
  • Yoshio Kojima (born 1980), Japanese comedian famous for appearing in only a small bathing suit
  • Yoshio Kondo (1910–1990), biologist and malacologist
  • Yoshio Kushida (born 1957), Japanese astronomer
  • Yoshio Machida (born 1967), experimental musician, a steelpanist, composer, and visual artist
  • Yoshio Maki (born 1958), Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan
  • Yoshio Markino (1869–1956), Japanese artist and author who spent much of his life in London
  • Yoshio Masuda (died 2009), former Japanese naval commander, regarded as the father of modern wave energy technology
  • Yoshio Masui (born 1931), Japanese cell biologist
  • Yoshio Mikami (1875–1950), Japanese mathematician and wasan historian
  • Yoshio Miki (1905–?), Japanese hurdler
  • Yoshio Minato (湊 義雄, born 1949), Japanese rower
  • Yoshio Mochizuki (1947–2019), Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party
  • Yoshio Morikawa (森川 嘉男, born 1945), Japanese racewalker
  • Yoshio Muto, Japanese diplomat who served as Imperial Japan's consul general in the United States in 1941
  • Yoshio Nakagawa (born 1938), Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party
  • Yoshio Nakamura (中村 佳央, born 1970), Japanese judoka
  • Yoshio Nakano, professional poker player and entrepreneur who resides in Long Beach, California
  • Yoshio Nishi (1934–2019), Japanese scholar of Tibeto-Burman linguistics
  • Yoshio Nishina (1890–1951), the founding father of modern physics research in Japan
  • Yoshio Nomura (野村 義男, born 1964), Japanese idol, musician and actor
  • Yoshio Oishi (1659–1703), the chamberlain of the Akō han in Harima Province, Japan (1679–1701)
  • Yoshio Okada (1926–2002), former Japanese football player
  • Yoshio Sakai (1910–?), Japanese field hockey player
  • Yoshio Sakamoto (born 1959), Japanese game designer working for Nintendo
  • Yoshio Sawai (born 1977), Japanese gag manga creator
  • Yoshio Shimura (志村 義夫, born 1940), Japanese cyclist
  • Yoshio Shinozuka (1923–2014), former Imperial Army soldier who served with a top secret Japanese biological warfare group in World War II
  • Yoshio Shirai (1923–2003), professional boxer from Tokyo, Japan
  • Yoshio Sugimoto (杉本 良夫, born 1939), Japanese sociologist
  • Yoshio Tabata (1919–2013), Japanese ryūkōka and enka singer, songwriter and electric guitarist
  • Yoshio Tachibana (1890–1946), lieutenant general of the Japanese Imperial Army
  • Yoshio Taniguchi (born 1937), Japanese architect who redesigned the Museum of Modern Art in New York
  • Yoshio Tarui (1902–1977), Japanese photographer
  • Yoshio Tsuchiya (1927–2017), Japanese actor who has appeared in several films
  • Yoshio Ueki (born 1969), professional Go player
  • Yoshio Urushibara (born 1944), Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party
  • Yoshio Utsumi (born 1942), the secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union 1998–2006
  • Yoshio Watanabe (1907–2000), renowned Japanese photographer
  • Yamada Yoshio (山田 孝雄, 1873–1958), Japanese linguist
  • Yoshio Yatsu (born 1934), Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party
  • Yoshio Yoda (born 1934), Japanese actor who played Fuji Kobiaji on the television series McHale's Navy
  • Yoshio Yoshida (吉田 義男, born 1933), Japanese baseball player and manager
  • Yoshio Yoshida (吉田 好雄, 1921 – before 2000), Japanese World War II flying ace

Last name
  • Shoji Yoshio (吉尾 詔ニ, born 1943), Japanese sprint canoeist
gollark: Radio astronomy is also fairly expensive.
gollark: I mean, you can, but that would be stupid and no.
gollark: You can't use a claim as evidence for itself.
gollark: > About the latter half of the question, the inverse square root law would imply that the rules that generally put down magnetism are removed.What? No. It wouldn't imply that, because galactic orbits run on gravity and have nothing to do with electromagnetism.
gollark: Galaxy rotation just runs on regular gravity-driven orbits like, well, the solar system and whatnot, no? I don't know if your claim about the "inverse square root law" thing is accurate, but it doesn't seem to mean very much.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.