Tetsuya is a masculine Japanese given name.
Written forms Tetsuya can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
哲也, "philosophy, to be" 鉄也, "iron, to be" 哲哉, "philosophy, alas" 徹也, "devotion, to be" 徹矢, "penetrate, arrow" 鉄弥, "iron, increasingly"
The name can also be written in hiragana てつや or katakana テツヤ.
People with the name Tetsuya (dancer) (born 1981), Japanese dancer Tetsuya (musician) (born 1969), Japanese musician Tetsuya Asano (浅野 哲也, born 1967) is a former Japanese football player and manager Tetsuya Chiba (てつや, born 1939), Japanese manga artist Tetsuya Chikushi (哲也, 1935–2008), Japanese newscaster Tetsuya Endo (disambiguation), multiple people Tetsuya Enomoto (哲也, born 1983), Japanese football player Tetsuya Fujii (哲也), a Japanese astronomer , Japanese shogi player Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita (哲也, 1920–1998), Japanese severe storms researcher , Japanese football player Tetsuya Harada (哲也, born 1970), Japanese former GP motorcycle racer Tetsuya Hibino (哲也, born 1974), Japanese professional drifting driver Tetsuya Ichimura (哲也, born 1930), Japanese photographer Tetsuya Ishida (徹也, 1973–2005), Japanese painter , Japanese footballer Tetsuya Iwanaga (哲哉, born 1970), Japanese voice actor Tetsuya Kajiwara (drummer) (徹也, born 1963), Japanese drummer Tetsuya Kakihara (徹也, born 1982), Japanese voice actor Tetsuya Kakiuchi (垣内 哲也, born 1970) is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball outfielder Tetsuya Kiyonari (哲也, born 1961), Japanese professional Go player , Japanese footballer , Japanese baseball player Tetsuya Komuro (哲哉, born 1958), Japanese keyboardist, songwriter and music producer , Japanese ballet dancer Tetsuya Makita (哲也, born 1984), Japanese actor Tetsuya Matoyama (哲也, born 1970), Japanese professional baseball catcher , Japanese baseball player Tetsuya Mizuguchi (哲也, born 1965), Japanese video game designer and producer , Japanese football manager Tetsuya Naito (哲也, born 1982), Japanese professional wrestler Tetsuya Nakashima (哲也, born 1959), Japanese film director , Japanese sumo wrestler , Japanese artist, printmaker and educator Tetsuya Nomura (哲也, born 1970), Japanese video game director Tetsuya Ōkubo (大久保 哲哉, born 1980) is a Japanese football player Tetsuya Ota (哲也, born 1959), Japanese racecar driver , Japanese ice hockey player Tetsuya Saruwatari (哲也, born 1958), Japanese manga artist Tetsuya Shibata (徹也, born 1973), video game music composer Tetsuya Shimizu (清水 哲也, born 1983), Japanese professional wrestler Tetsuya Shikawa 鉄也, Japanese politician Tetsuya Shiroo (哲彌, 1948–2020), Japanese yakuza Tetsuya Takahashi (哲哉, born 1966), Japanese video game creator Tetsuya Takeda (鉄矢), Japanese singer and actor Tetsuya Takehora (竹洞哲也, born 1974) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Tetsuya Tanaka (田中哲也, born 1965) is a Japanese racing driver , Japanese footballer and manager Tetsuya Utsumi (内海 哲也, born 1982) is a Japanese professional baseball player Tetsuya Wakuda (哲也, born 1959), Japanese-born Australian chef Tetsuya Watari (哲也, 1941–2020), Japanese stage, film, and television actor Tetsuya Yamagami (山上 徹也), the only suspect in the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe , Japanese baseball player , Japanese baseball player Tetsuya Yanagisawa (テツヤ), Japanese anime director Tetsuya Yoneda (哲也, born 1938), Japanese professional baseball pitcher , Japanese long-distance runner
Fictional characters Tetsuya Azuma (鉄也), protagonist of the 1973 anime series Casshan and of the 2004 film Casshern Tetsuya Kajiwara (Fushigi Yūgi) (哲也), in the manga and anime series Fushigi Yūgi Tetsuya Kuroko (黒子 テツヤ), the protagonist of the manga and anime series Kuroko's Basketball Tetsuya Sendo, a friend of Ritsu Kasanoda in the manga and anime series Ouran High School Host Club Tetsuya Takahashi, in Haruki Murakami's novel After Dark Tetsuya Tsurugi (鉄也), the protagonist of manga and anime series Great Mazinger Tetsuya Watarigani, a recurring character in the anime series Beyblade: Metal Fusion Tetsuya Yuuki (哲也), in the manga and anime series Ace of Diamond Tetsuya, Japanese name of Tyson from Pokémon: Advanced Battle Tetsuya Yano, a character from Choujuu Sentai Liveman Tetsuya from Yokai Watch
See also 4343 Tetsuya, a main-belt asteroid Legendary Gambler Tetsuya, a gambling manga Tetsuya's, a restaurant in Sydney, Australia