Tetsuya
| Tetsuya | |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | Japanese: [tetsu͍ja] |
| Gender | Male |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Japanese |
| Meaning | Different depending on the kanji |
| Region of origin | Japanese |
| Other names | |
| Related names |
Tetsuo Tatsuya |
Tetsuya (てつや, テツヤ) is a common masculine Japanese given name.
Possible writings
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 or katakana.
People
- Tetsuya (musician) (born 1969), Japanese musician
- Tetsuya Chiba (てつや, born 1939), Japanese manga artist
- Tetsuya Chikushi (哲也, 1935–2008), Japanese newscaster
- Tetsuya Endo (徹哉), Japanese anime director
- Tetsuya Enomoto (哲也, born 1983), Japanese football player
- Tetsuya Fujii (哲也), a Japanese astronomer
- Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita (哲也, 1920–1998), Japanese severe storms researcher
- 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
- 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 Kiyonari (哲也, born 1961), Japanese professional Go player
- Tetsuya Komuro (哲哉, born 1958), Japanese keyboardist, songwriter and music producer
- Tetsuya Makita (哲也, born 1984), Japanese actor
- Tetsuya Matoyama (哲也, born 1970), Japanese professional baseball catcher
- Tetsuya Minagawa (哲也, born 1979), Japanese economist, industrialist and innovation expert
- Tetsuya Mizuguchi (哲也, born 1965), Japanese video game designer and producer
- Tetsuya Naito (哲也, born 1982), Japanese professional wrestler
- Tetsuya Nakashima (哲也, born 1959), Japanese film director
- Tetsuya Nomura (哲也, born 1970), Japanese video game director
- Tetsuya Ota (哲也, born 1959), Japanese racecar driver
- Tetsuya Saruwatari (哲也, born 1958), Japanese manga artist
- Tetsuya Shibata (徹也, born 1973), video game music composer
- Tetsuya Shiokawa (鉄也, born 1961), Japanese politician
- Tetsuya Shiroo (哲彌, born 1948), Japanese yakuza
- Tetsuya Takahashi (哲哉, born 1966), Japanese video game creator
- Tetsuya Takeda (鉄矢), Japanese singer and actor
- Tetsuya Wakuda (哲也, born 1959), Japanese-born Australian chef
- Tetsuya Watari (哲也, born 1941), Japanese stage, film, and television actor
- Tetsuya Yanagisawa (テツヤ), Japanese anime director
- Tetsuya Yoneda (哲也, born 1938), Japanese professional baseball pitcher
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, protagonist of the manga and anime series Kuroko no Basuke
- Tetsuya Tsurugi (鉄也), protagonist of manga and anime series Great Mazinger
- Tetsuya Sendo, 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 Yuuki (哲也), in the manga and anime series Ace of Diamond
See also
- 4343 Tetsuya, a Main-belt Asteroid
- Legendary Gambler Tetsuya, a gambling manga
- Tetsuya's, a restaurant in Sydney, Australia