Toshio
# 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, 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 としお or katakana トシオ.

## Notable people with the name

* Toshio Fukumoto (福元 寿夫, born 1960), Japanese water polo player
* Toshio Furukawa (古川 登志夫, born 1946), Japanese voice actor
* Toshio Gotō (後藤 俊夫, born 1938), Japanese film director
* Toshio Iwai (岩井 俊雄, born 1962), Japanese interactive media and installation artist
* Toshio Iwatani (岩谷 俊夫, 1925–1970), Japanese footballer
* Toshio Jingu (神宮 敏男, born 1948), Japanese fencer
* Toshio Kakei (筧 利夫, born 1962), Japanese actor
* Toshio Kimura (木村 俊夫, 1909–1983), Japanese politician
* Toshio Maeda (前田 俊夫, born 1953), Japanese manga artist
* Toshio Masuda (舛田 利雄, born 1927), Japanese film director
* Toshio Matsumoto (松本 俊夫, 1932–2017), Japanese film director
* Toshio Matsumoto (dancer) (松本 利夫, born 1975), Japanese dancer and actor
* Toshio Motoya (元谷 外志雄, born 1943), Japanese writer, publisher and businessman
* Toshio Nakanishi, a Japanese musician and an artist
* Tosiwo Nakayama (中山 利雄, 1931–2003), first president of the Federated States of Micronesia
* Toshio Odate (トシオ・オダテ, born 1930), Japanese-born American sculptor
* Toshio Ogawa (小川 敏夫, born 1948), Japanese politician
* Toshio Shibata (柴田 敏雄, born 1949), Japanese photographer
* Toshio Shimao (島尾 敏雄, 1917–1986), Japanese novelist
* Toshio Suzuki (driver) (鈴木 利男, born 1955), Japanese racing driver
* Toshio Suzuki (producer) (鈴木 敏夫, born 1948), chief producer of the Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli
* Toshio Tamogami (田母神 俊雄, born 1948), Japanese Air Self-Defense Force career military officer
* Toshio Tosanoumi (土佐ノ海 敏生, born 1972), Japanese sumo wrestler
* Toshio Ukishima (浮島 敏男, born 1949), Japanese politician
* Toshio Takahashi (高橋 敏夫, born 1949), Japanese water polo player
* Toshio Wakita (脇田 寿雄, born 1965), Japanese bobsledder
* Toshio Yamada (山田 俊男, born 1946), Japanese politician
* Toshio Yamaguchi (山口 敏夫, born 1940), Japanese politician
* Toshio Yamane (山根 敏郎, born 1953), Japanese photographer
* 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.
* Toshio Saeki (Ju-on) (佐伯 俊雄), a main antagonist in the Japanese horror series Ju-on
* Toshio Utsumi (内海 俊夫), a character in the anime and manga series Cat's Eye
