Jiro (given name)

Infobox Given Name Revised
name = Jirō


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gender = Male
meaning = It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used.
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origin = Japanese
related names = Taro
Saburo
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nihongo|Jirō or Jiro |じろう, ジロウ is a stand-alone Japanese given name along with "Tarō", and a common name suffix for males.

Possible writings

Jirō can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
*次郎, "next, son"
*次朗, "next, melodious"
*二郎, "second, son"
*二朗, "second, melodious"
*治郎, "reign, son"The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

Real people

;with the given name Jiro
*JIRO, the bassist of the Japanese rock band "GLAY"
*Jiro Aichi (治郎), a Japanese politician
*Jirō Akagawa (次郎), a Japanese novelist
*Jiro Akama (二郎), a Japanese politician
*Jiro Ando (慈朗), a Japanese manga artist
*Jirō Asada (次郎), a Japanese novelist
*Jiro Horikoshi (二郎), the chief engineer behind many Japanese fighters of WWII
*Jiro Kamiharako (次郎), a Japanese ski jumper
*Jiro Kikkawa, a Japanese Australian ornithologist
*Jiro Manio, a Filipino actor
*Jiro Nakano (二郎), a Japanese composer
*Jiro Ono (次郎), a Japanese politician
*Jiro Wang, a Taiwanese actor and singer

Fictional characters

;with the given name Jiro
*Jiro (ジロー), the main protagonist of the tokusatsu superhero TV series "Android Kikaider"
*Jiro (ジーロ), a character in the a console role-playing game "Blue Dragon"
*Jiro Ueda (次郎), the main character in the Japanese comedic TV drama and movie series "Trick"

Other uses

*Jiro (ジロ), the famed Sakhalin Husky of the 1958 Japanese Antarctica expedition, depicted in the film Nankyoku Monogatari

ee also

*Nankyoku Monogatari, a 1983 Japanese film