Tetsuya is a masculine Japanese given name.
Written forms
Tetsuya can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
- å²ä¹Â, "philosophy, to be"
- éÂÂä¹Â, "iron, to be"
- å²åÂÂ, "philosophy, alas"
- å¾¹ä¹Â, "devotion, to be"
- å¾¹ç¢, "penetrate, arrow"
- éÂÂå¼¥, "iron, increasingly"
The name can also be written in hiragana ã¦ã¤ã or katakana ãÂÂãÂÂã¤.
People with the name
- Tetsuya (dancer) (born 1981), Japanese dancer
- Tetsuya (musician) (born 1969), Japanese musician
- Tetsuya Asano (æµÂ
é å²ä¹Â, born 1967) is a former Japanese football player and manager
- Tetsuya Chiba (ã¦ã¤ãÂÂ, born 1939), Japanese manga artist
- Tetsuya Chikushi (å²ä¹Â, 1935âÂÂ2008), Japanese newscaster
- Tetsuya Endo (disambiguation), multiple people
- Tetsuya Enomoto (å²ä¹Â, born 1983), Japanese football player
- Tetsuya Fujii (å²ä¹Â), a Japanese astronomer
- , Japanese shogi player
- Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita (å²ä¹Â, 1920âÂÂ1998), Japanese severe storms researcher
- , Japanese football player
- Tetsuya Harada (å²ä¹Â, born 1970), Japanese former GP motorcycle racer
- Tetsuya Hibino (å²ä¹Â, born 1974), Japanese professional drifting driver
- Tetsuya Ichimura (å²ä¹Â, born 1930), Japanese photographer
- Tetsuya Ishida (å¾¹ä¹Â, 1973âÂÂ2005), Japanese painter
- , Japanese footballer
- Tetsuya Iwanaga (å²åÂÂ, born 1970), Japanese voice actor
- Tetsuya Kajiwara (drummer) (å¾¹ä¹Â, born 1963), Japanese drummer
- Tetsuya Kakihara (å¾¹ä¹Â, born 1982), Japanese voice actor
- Tetsuya Kakiuchi (å£åÂÂ
å²ä¹Â, born 1970) is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball outfielder
- Tetsuya Kiyonari (å²ä¹Â, born 1961), Japanese professional Go player
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese baseball player
- Tetsuya Komuro (å²åÂÂ, born 1958), Japanese keyboardist, songwriter and music producer
- , Japanese ballet dancer
- Tetsuya Makita (å²ä¹Â, born 1984), Japanese actor
- Tetsuya Matoyama (å²ä¹Â, born 1970), Japanese professional baseball catcher
- , Japanese baseball player
- Tetsuya Mizuguchi (å²ä¹Â, born 1965), Japanese video game designer and producer
- , Japanese football manager
- Tetsuya Naito (å²ä¹Â, born 1982), Japanese professional wrestler
- Tetsuya Nakashima (å²ä¹Â, born 1959), Japanese film director
- , Japanese sumo wrestler
- , Japanese artist, printmaker and educator
- Tetsuya Nomura (å²ä¹Â, born 1970), Japanese video game director
- Tetsuya Ã
Âkubo (大ä¹Â
ä¿ å²åÂÂ, born 1980) is a Japanese football player
- Tetsuya Ota (å²ä¹Â, born 1959), Japanese racecar driver
- , Japanese ice hockey player
- Tetsuya Saruwatari (å²ä¹Â, born 1958), Japanese manga artist
- Tetsuya Shibata (å¾¹ä¹Â, born 1973), video game music composer
- Tetsuya Shimizu (æ¸Â
æ°´ å²ä¹Â, born 1983), Japanese professional wrestler
- Tetsuya Shikawa éÂÂä¹Â, Japanese politician
- Tetsuya Shiroo (å²å½Â, 1948âÂÂ2020), Japanese yakuza
- Tetsuya Takahashi (å²åÂÂ, born 1966), Japanese video game creator
- Tetsuya Takeda (éÂÂç¢), Japanese singer and actor
- Tetsuya Takehora (竹æ´Âå²ä¹Â, born 1974) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
- Tetsuya Tanaka (ç°ä¸Âå²ä¹Â, born 1965) is a Japanese racing driver
- , Japanese footballer and manager
- Tetsuya Utsumi (Ã¥ÂÂ
æµ· å²ä¹Â, born 1982) is a Japanese professional baseball player
- Tetsuya Wakuda (å²ä¹Â, born 1959), Japanese-born Australian chef
- Tetsuya Watari (å²ä¹Â, 1941âÂÂ2020), Japanese stage, film, and television actor
- Tetsuya Yamagami (山丠徹ä¹Â), the only suspect in the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe
- , Japanese baseball player
- , Japanese baseball player
- Tetsuya Yanagisawa (ãÂÂãÂÂã¤), Japanese anime director
- Tetsuya Yoneda (å²ä¹Â, born 1938), Japanese professional baseball pitcher
- , Japanese long-distance runner
Fictional characters
- Tetsuya Azuma (éÂÂä¹Â), protagonist of the 1973 anime series Casshan and of the 2004 film Casshern
- Tetsuya Kajiwara (Fushigi YÃ
«gi) (å²ä¹Â), in the manga and anime series Fushigi YÃ
«gi
- Tetsuya Kuroko (é»Âå ãÂÂãÂÂã¤), 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 (éÂÂä¹Â), the protagonist of manga and anime series Great Mazinger
- Tetsuya Watarigani, a recurring character in the anime series '
- Tetsuya Yuuki (å²ä¹Â), in the manga and anime series Ace of Diamond
- Tetsuya, Japanese name of Tyson from '
- Tetsuya Yano, a character from Choujuu Sentai Liveman
- Tetsuya from Yokai Watch
See also