Tōru (given name)
Template:Infobox given name Tōru is a masculine Japanese given name.
Written forms
[edit]Tōru can be expressed with several kanji. Some examples:
- 徹, "penetrate"
- 透, "transparent"
- 享, "enjoy"
- 亨, "smoothly"
- 暢, "freely"
The name can also be written in hiragana とおる or katakana トオル.
Notable people with the name
[edit]- Template:Nihongo, Japanese actor
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese karateka
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese water polo player
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese politician
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese manga artist
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actor
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator
- Template:Nihongo, Governor of Osaka Prefecture
- Template:Nihongo, American electrochemist
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese ice hockey player
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese video game designer
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese mezzotint engraver and painter
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese former sumo wrestler
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese astronomer
- Template:Nihongo (born 1977), Japanese badminton player
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actor
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese baseball player
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actor and narrator
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese ice hockey player
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator
- Toru "Tiger" Okoshi, Japanese-American trumpet player
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese manga artist
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese baseball player
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese computer network researcher and businessman
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese racing driver
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese software entrepreneur
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese long-distance runner
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese politician
- Template:Nihongo, A perpetrator of the Tokyo subway sarin attack
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese guitarist
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese professional wrestler
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese folk singer
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese tennis player
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer and manager
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese Researcher
Fictional characters
[edit]- Tohru (トオル), in Jackie Chan Adventures
- Tohru (トオル), a character in Kare First Love
- Toru (トオル), also known as Todd Snap, in the Pokémon anime
- Toru, in Chris Bradford's Young Samurai
- Tooru Amami (天美 透), in The World God Only Knows
- Toru Asakura (浅倉 透), in The Idolmaster Shiny Colors
- Toru Egawa, in Business as Usual, a Finder Series fanfiction by Kadzuki_Fuchoin
- Tōru Hagakure (葉隠 透), in My Hero Academia
- Tōru Hikawa (氷川 透), Tory Froid, in MegaMan NT Warrior
- Tohru Honda (本田 透), in Fruits Basket
- Tōru Ichii (一井 透), in A Channel
- Toru Ishikawa in Horimiya
- Toru Kazama (風間 トオル), in Crayon Shin-chan
- Tohru Kobayashi (小林 トール), the titular draconian servant in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
- Toru Kouno (河野 亨), in Princess Princess
- Tōru Miyamae (宮前 透), in Seiren
- Tohru Mutou (武藤 徹), in Shiki
- Tōru Mutsuki (六月 透), in Tokyo Ghoul
- Toru Narita (成田 徹), in Hot Gimmick
- Tooru Oikawa (及川 徹), in Haikyū!! with the position of captain and setter from Aoba Johsai High
- Toru Okada (岡田 亨), in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- Toru Oshikiri (押切 トオル), in the series of the same name by Junji Ito
- Tōru Rikiishi (力石 徹), in Ashita no Joe
- Toru Sato (トオル・サトウ), in the game Need for Speed: Most Wanted
- Tohru Suidohbashi (水道橋 徹), of Machine Robo Rescue.
- Tōru Watanabe (ワタナベ トオル), in Norwegian Wood
- Tōru Yasunaga (安永 透), in The Decay of the Angel