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Hiroshi Kamayatsu

Hiroshi Kamayatsu (かまやつひろし, Monsieur Kamayatsu) was a Japanese singer, songwriter, and guitarist, active from the late 1950s until his death in 2017 and best known as a member of The Spiders.

Hiroshi Kamiya (神谷浩史)

Hiroshi Kamiya (神谷浩史, born 1975 in Chiba, Japan) is a Japanese voice actor and singer who voices Levi in Attack on Titan and Trafalgar Law in One Piece.

Hiroshi Kawaguchi (orthopedic surgeon)

Hiroshi Kawaguchi (川口浩) is a Japanese orthopedic surgeon-scientist who spent most of his career at the University of Tokyo and led the ROAD osteoarthritis cohort study.

Hiroshi Kawasaki (河崎 洋志)

Hiroshi Kawasaki (河崎 洋志) is a Japanese physician-scientist, professor of brain and neurosciences at Kanazawa University, known for genetic tools that make folded ferret and primate brains experimentally tractable.

Hiroshi Kitagawa

Hiroshi Kitagawa (北川 宏) is a Japanese solid-state chemist and professor at Kyoto University since 2009, known for forcing immiscible metals into alloy nanoparticles for catalysts and hydrogen storage.

Hiroshi Maeda

Hiroshi Maeda (前田 浩; 1938–2021) was a Japanese drug delivery scientist who discovered the EPR effect, the basis of cancer nanomedicine, and created the drug SMANCS.

Hiroshi Matsui

Hiroshi Matsui is a chemist and Professor at Hunter College, CUNY, working in bionanotechnology, known for peptide-based nanotubes, peptide-powered nanomotors, and iron oxide nanocages that deliver anticancer drugs.

Hiroshi Matsumura

Hiroshi Matsumura (松村 博史), born 1952, is a Japanese dentist and entrepreneur who founded and chairs the Tokushinkai Medical Corporation Group, a large dental healthcare operator.

Hiroshi Mikitani (三木谷浩史)

Hiroshi Mikitani (三木谷浩史), known as "Mickey," is a Japanese entrepreneur, founder, chairman, and CEO of Rakuten, which he started in Tokyo in 1997 and built into a group of more than 70 services.

Hiroshi Nakatsuji

Hiroshi Nakatsuji (中辻 博, born 1943 in Osaka) is a Japanese theoretical chemist at Kyoto University known for the SAC, SAC-CI, and free complement methods.

Hiroshi Negami

Hiroshi Negami (根上博, 1912-1980), Japanese freestyle swimmer from Rikkyo University; 1935 national 400 m record 4:45.2, 4x200 m relay world record 8:52.2, fifth in the 400 m freestyle at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, later Japan Swimming Federation president.

Hiroshi Nikaido

Hiroshi Nikaido is a Japanese-born American microbiologist and UC Berkeley professor emeritus known for discovering porins and broad-specificity multidrug efflux pumps underlying bacterial antibiotic resistance.

Hiroshi Nikaidō

Hiroshi Nikaidō is a Japanese-born American microbiologist and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for discovering bacterial porins and broad-specificity multidrug efflux pumps, key mechanisms of antibiotic resistance.

Hiroshi Nishihara

Hiroshi Nishihara (西原 寛) is a Japanese coordination chemist and electrochemist, a University of Tokyo emeritus professor now at Tokyo University of Science, known for coordination programming and coordination nanosheets.

Hiroshi Nishimasu

Hiroshi Nishimasu (西増 弘志) is a Japanese structural biologist and professor at the University of Tokyo known for the first crystal structure of the Cas9 genome-editing complex.

Hiroshi Noma

Hiroshi Noma (野間宏, 1915–1991) was a Japanese novelist of the first postwar generation, best known for the army novel Zone of Emptiness, which won the 1952 Mainichi Prize.

Hiroshi Ohmoto

Hiroshi Ohmoto is a geochemist and Professor Emeritus at Pennsylvania State University known for challenging the standard account of an oxygen-poor early Earth atmosphere using sulfur isotopes.

Hiroshi Ohno

Hiroshi Ohno (大野 博司, born 1958 in Tokyo) is a Japanese mucosal immunologist and physician who leads the Laboratory for Intestinal Ecosystem at RIKEN, studying how gut bacteria and immunity regulate each other.

Hiroshi Okamoto

Hiroshi Okamoto (岡本 博) is a Japanese condensed matter physicist and professor at the University of Tokyo known for photoinduced phase transitions studied with femtosecond and terahertz spectroscopy.

Hiroshi Sakurai

Hiroshi Sakurai (桜井 博志) is a Japanese sake brewer, born in 1950, who as president of Asahi Shuzo in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi built the Dassai brand into a premium sake.

Hiroshi Shinokubo

Hiroshi Shinokubo (忍久保 洋) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Nagoya University since 2008, known for the gram-scale synthesis of stable antiaromatic norcorrole and stacked antiaromatic porphyrins.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Hiroshi Sugimoto (杉本博司, born 1948) is a Japanese artist whose photographic series Dioramas, Theaters, and Seascapes examine time and perception; he has also worked in architecture and stage direction.

Hiroshi Sugiyama

Hiroshi Sugiyama (杉山 弘) is a Japanese chemical biologist and Kyoto University professor known for pyrrole-imidazole polyamide artificial genetic switches and DNA origami nanotechnology studied by high-speed AFM.

Hiroshi Suzuki

Hiroshi Suzuki is the name of two Japanese Olympic athletes: a swimmer who won two silver medals at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, and a bobsledder at five Winter Games.

Hiroshi Takayanagi

Hiroshi Takayanagi (高柳 広), born 1965, is a Japanese immunologist and University of Tokyo professor who founded osteoimmunology and received the 2019 Japan Academy Prize for that work.

Hiroshi Takeshima

Hiroshi Takeshima (竹島 浩) is a Japanese molecular biologist and professor at Kyoto University until 2026, known for cloning the ryanodine receptor and discovering TRIC channels essential for calcium release.

Hiroshi Tamiya

Hiroshi Tamiya (田宮 博, 1903–1984) was a Japanese plant physiologist and microbiologist who pioneered synchronous culture of Chlorella and directed the Tokugawa Institute for Biological Research in Tokyo.

Hiroshi Tanahashi (棚橋 弘至)

Hiroshi Tanahashi (棚橋弘至), born 1976, Japanese pro wrestler, NJPW's "Ace," record eight IWGP Heavyweight title reigns, three G1 Climax wins, NJPW president from December 2023, retired January 4, 2026 against Okada.

Hiroshi Tanaka (mathematician)

Hiroshi Tanaka (田中博) is a Japanese mathematician who works in probability theory, especially Brownian motion and diffusion in random media, and is a Keio University emeritus professor.

Hiroshi Yamauchi

Hiroshi Yamauchi (山内 溥, 1927–2013), third president of Nintendo 1949–2002, great-grandson of founder Fusajiro Yamauchi; turned a hanafuda card firm into a video game giant via the Famicom/NES, bought the Seattle Mariners in 1992, and chose Satoru Iwata as successor.