Famous People with Name Shiro

Shiro Hashizume            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shiro Hashizume: is a retired freestyle swimmer from Wakayama, Japan, who won the silver medal in the men's 1500m freestyle at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. He broke the world record in the same event on August 16, 1949, clocking 18:35.7, but that time was bettered the same day by compatriot Hironoshin Furuhashi at the American Swimming Championships in Los Angeles, California.

Shiro Kishibe            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shiro Kishibe: a famous actor from Kyoto, Japan.His most famous role was that of Sandy in Monkey. However, he declared bankruptcy in 2001 due to different cases of business failure. Still, Kishibe remains popular in his current acting career in Japan. Before Kishibe was

Shiro Yadama            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shiro Yadama: a Japanese author.His most famous work, Hare Tokidoki Buta, known in English as Fair, then Partly Piggy, was later written as an anime series (titled Tokyo Pig in English) by Shinichi Watanabe.

Shiro Asano            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shiro Asano: the former governor of Miyagi, Japan, and currently university professor & political commentator.Asano was born in the northern port town of Ofunato, Iwate, where his father was a town doctor. His father moved to nearby Tome, Miyagi and at age 4 to Sendai, the prefectural capital of Miyagi. He grew up there until finishing high school.Asano graduated from the faculty of law of University of Tokyo in 1970 and joined the Ministry of Health and Welfare. From 1972 to 1974 he was an exchange student at the University of Illinois, Graduate School of Political Science. He returned to Japan until 1978, when he was stationed at the Japanese embassy in Washington D.C. as second and first secretary. The position in Washington lasted until 1980. Back in Japan he worked a number of posts in the Ministry of Health and Welfare and in 1993 he was posted to Miyagi Prefecture.

Shiro Kikuhara            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shiro Kikuhara: is a former Japanese football player. He has played for Japan national team.

Namrata Shirodkar            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Namrata Shirodkar: an Indian actress. Her sister is the actress Shilpa Shirodkar. She is the granddaughter of famous Marathi actress Meenakshi Shirodkar, who starred in Brahmachari (1930s), and was the first actress to wear a swimsuit and gambol in a pool, albeit to depict Lord Krishna bathing in the Holy river Yamuna with his gopis.

Roman Nikolayevich Shirokov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Roman Nikolayevich Shirokov: a Russian football player. He is a midfielder but he is also capable of playing in defense. He played as centerback in Zenit's win against Bayer Leverkusen in a match they won 4-1 in Germany and in the uefa cup final victory over rangers. Currently, he is part of the Russia national football team . Shirokov made his debut along with Roman Adamov in a 3-0 loss to Romania in a friendly match. He currently plays for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg in the Russian Premier League. Previously, he played for FC Khimki, Rubin Kazan, Saturn Moscow Oblast

Aleksei Dmitriyevich Shirokov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Aleksei Dmitriyevich Shirokov: is a Russian professional football player. Currently, he plays in the Russian Premier League for FC Saturn Moscow Oblast.

Yuu Shirota            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yuu Shirota: a Japanese-Spanish actor and singer. He is known most notably for his role as Kunimitsu Tezuka in the Prince of Tennis musical series, Tenimyu, and in the live film adaptation, and for his role as Tuxedo Kamen in the Sailor Moon Musicals, also as Kagurazaka Mokoto in live-action drama Hanazakari no Kimitachi e. He was also part of a young men's stage acting troupe, D-Boys, which perform in various skit-like performances, until June 27, 2008, when he announced his graduation during the encore for the D-Stage Volume 2 play.

Alexei Shirov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Alexei Shirov: is a chess grandmaster. On the April 2008 FIDE rating list he was ranked number twelve in the world with an ELO rating of 2740. Shirov is also a well-regarded chess author. Shirov became the World Champion (under 16) in 1988, the World Under-20 Vice-Champ