Takeshi ( in hiragana or in katakana) is a masculine Japanese given name.
Written forms Forms in kanji can include: 武, "warrior" 毅, "strong" 猛, "fierce" 健, "healthy" 剛, "sturdy" 崇, "exalt" 彪, "spotted" 威, "intimidate" 壮, "robust" 丈, "length" 雄, "masculine" 豪, "overpowering" 武史, "warrior, history" 武士, "warrior, gentleman" 健史, "healthy, history" 猛司, "fierce, director" 剛士, "sturdy, gentleman" 健士, "healthy, gentleman" 武志, "warrior, "intention" 丈史, "length, history" 剛始, "sturdy, commence" 猛司, "fierce, director" 勇志, "courage, intention" 雄志, "masculine, intention" 猛士, "fierce, gentleman" 岳志, "peak, intention" 剛志, "sturdy, intention" 岳史, "peak, history"
People with the name , Japanese video game composer , Japanese retired Nippon Professional Baseball player , Japanese ice hockey player , Japanese ice hockey player , Japanese economist and academic , Japanese football player , Japanese former professional baseball infielder , Japanese voice actor , Japanese professional Go player , Japanese mayor of Hiroshima from 1975 to 1991 Takeshi Asai (born 1964), Japanese jazz pianist, composer, producer and educator , Japanese ice hockey player , Japanese actor and retired kickboxer , Japanese drug smuggler and arms dealer , Hawaiian-born Japanese former professional boxer , Japanese shogi player , Japanese politician , Japanese director of photography , Japanese filmmaker and director , Japanese-American composer and conductor , Japanese film director and screenwriter , Japanese sailor , Japanese former football player , Japanese former football player , Japanese basketball player , Japanese musical arranger and guitarist , Japanese former politician , Japanese baseball player , Japanese international rugby union player , Japanese cancer epidemiologist and anti-tobacco activist , Japanese figure skater , Japanese animator , Japanese weightlifter , Japanese politician , Japanese baseball player , Japanese Head coach , Japanese Director of the Karafuto Agency , Japanese jazz drummer and bandleader , Japanese OPBF Super Welterweight Champio , Japanese footballer , Japanese mixed martial artist , Japanese economist and peace activist , Japanese footballer , Japanese jazz fusion saxophonist and flute player , Japanese ice hockey player , Japanese politician , Japanese actor , Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, literary critic and television documentary writer , Japanese golfer , Japanese football player , Japanese badminton player , Japanese footballer , Japanese former professional baseball catcher , Japanese professional baseball player , Taiwanese-Japanese actor and singer , Japanese stage and film actor , Japanese gymnast and Olympic champion , Japanese former football player , Japanese shogi player , Japanese swimmer , Japanese playwright and director , Japanese screenwriter , Japanese racing driver , known as Beat Takeshi, Japanese filmmaker and star of Takeshi's Castle , Japanese rugby union player , Japanese professional baseball player and manager , Japanese keyboardist, lyricist, composer, arranger and record producer , Japanese sport wrestler , Japanese rower , Japanese retired judoka , Japanese animator, illustrator and film director , Japanese manga artist , Japanese football manager and former footballer , Japanese former professional tennis player , Japanese judoka , Japanese actor and voice actor , Japanese actor, voice actor, and singer , Japanese soccer coach and former player , Japanese retired politician , Japanese professional wrestler , Japanese actor , Japanese gay manga artist , retired Japanese Olympic, Asian and National Record holding swimmer , Japanese footballer , Japanese professional wrestler , Japanese founder of Canon Inc , Japanese actor , Japanese video game developer , Japanese politician , Japanese baseball player , Japanese mixed martial artist , Canadian comic book artist , Japanese professor , Japanese photographer , Japanese footballer , Japanese television announcer , Japanese lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army , Japanese anime director, storyboard artist and scriptwriter , Japanese professional wrestler , Japanese physician and scholar , Japanese conductor , Japanese artist , Japanese former football player Takeshi Murata (born 1974), American contemporary artist , Japanese volleyball player , Japanese sport wrestler , Japanese geophysicist , Japanese former professional baseball catcher , Japanese bureaucrat, conservative critic and scholar , Japanese football player , Japanese business executive , Japanese politician , Japanese politician , Japanese politician , Japanese former professional basketball player , Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher , Japanese manga artist , Japanese judoka , Japanese-American spectroscopist and astronomer , Japanese former football player and manager , Japanese pocket billiards player , Japanese racehorse trainer , Japanese politician , Japanese former football player , Japanese former football player and manager , Japanese professional wrestler , Japanese footballer , Japanese ice hockey player , Japanese mathematician , Japanese violinist , Japanese actor , Japanese lieutenant general , Japanese judoka , Japanese political scientist , Japanese professional wrestler , Japanese composer , Japanese film editor , Japanese retired professional pitcher , Japanese politician , Japanese equestrian , Japanese scriptwriter , Japanese long-distance runner , Japanese sport shooter , Japanese professor , Japanese alpine skier and Paralympic athlete , Japanese general , Japanese judoka , Japanese artist , Japanese whisky distiller , Japanese former football player , Japanese rock guitarist , Japanese fencer , Japanese former politician , Japanese former volleyball player , Japanese comedian and actor , Japanese professional race car driver , Japanese former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer , Japanese actor , Japanese businessman , Japanese musician , Japanese philosopher and critic , Japanese former football player , Japanese astronomer , Japanese bureaucrat , Japanese former football player , Japanese actor and voice actor , Japanese bureaucrat , Japanese former football player , Japanese TV director/producer Takeshi Yamada (born 1960), Japanese-American artist , Japanese footballer , Japanese swimmer , Japanese ice hockey player , Japanese retired professional baseball player , Japanese potter , Japanese diplomat , Japanese professional vert skater , Japanese jockey , Japanese former football player Takeshi Yoshida, Japanese engineer , Japanese actor Hiroki Takeshi, better known as AK-69 (born 1978), Japanese rapper, singer-songwriter
Fictional characters , a character in the Pokémon media franchise, better known as Brock in English Takeshi, a character in the television series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , a character in the manga series Doraemon , a character in the anime series Yuri on Ice, based on the actual Takeshi Honda , a character in the tokusatsu franchise Kamen Rider Takeshi Kovacs, a character in many books by Richard Morgan , a character in the My Hero Academia spin-off My Hero Academia: Vigilantes mostly known as Knuckleduster Takeshi Manganji, a character in the anime series Crush Gear Turbo , a character in the manga series Prince of Tennis , a character in the anime series Yuri on Ice , a character in the manga series D.N.Angel , a character in the manga series Hajime no Ippo Takeshi Shirokane, a character in the web comic Okashina Okashi – Strange Candy , a character in the Inazuma Eleven media franchise , a character in the manga series Reborn!
See also , a fictional organization in Kamen Rider Hibiki Takeshis', a 2005 film by, and starring, Takeshi Kitano Takeshi's Castle