Famous People with Name Hiro

Hiro Mizushima            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hiro Mizushima: a Japanese model and actor. He has played supporting roles in many well-known Japanese dramas such as Watashitachi no Kyokasho and Hanazakari no Kimitachi e, as well as leading roles in Kamen Rider Kabuto and Zettai Kareshi.

Hiro Arikawa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hiro Arikawa: a female Japanese light novelist from Kochi, Japan.Hiro Arikawa won the tenth annual Dengeki Novel Prize for new writers for Shio no Machi: Wish on My Precious in 2003, and the book was published the following year. It was praised for its love story between a heroine and hero divided by age and social status, and for its depiction of military structures. Although she is a light novelist, her books from her second work onwards have been published as hardbacks alongside more literary works with Arikawa receiving special treatment in this respect from her publisher, MediaWorks. Shio no Machi was also later published in hardback. Her 2006 light novel Toshokan Senso (The Library War) was named as Hon no Zasshi's number one for entertainment for the first half of 2006, and came fifth in the Honya Taisho for that year, competing against ordinary novels.

Hiro Yamagata            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hiro Yamagata: a Japanese author, critic, economist, and translator. He translated some important works in computer technology such as "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric S. Raymond, "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace" by Lawrence Lessig into Japanese. He is also the founder and chairman of Project Sugita Genpaku, which is a volunteer effort to translate free content texts into Japanese.

Kotoryu Hiro            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kotoryu Hiro: is a former sumo wrestler from Hyogo, Japan. He joined professional sumo in 1987, reaching the top division in 1996. He defeated yokozuna three times and earned one Fighting Spirit Prize. His highest rank was maegashira 1. Kotoryu used both tsuki/oshi (pu