Famous People with Name Hiroshi

Hiroshi Ando            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hiroshi Ando: Hiroshi Ando has 4 films to his credit including Saraba gokudo dead beat, Blue, Kokoro to karada and Boku wa imouto ni koi wo suru.

Hiroshi Shimizu            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hiroshi Shimizu: was a Japanese film director, known for his silent films with detailed depictions of Japanese society. He was born in Shizuoka and attended the Shochiko studio in Tokyo where he began making films in 1924, at the age of just 21. He was a friend and colleague of Yasujiro Ozu. During his career, he is believed to have directed at least 166 films. He died of a heart attack on June 23, 1966, at the age of 63. Though respected in his time, today he remains largely unknown, even in his native Japan. A Criterion Collection boxset of four of his films was released in 2009.[1]

Hiroshi Yoshikawa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hiroshi Yoshikawa: a Japanese economist and professor of Tokyo University.He won the Nikkei Economic Book Award and the Suntory Award (1984), the Economist Award (1993) and the Yomiuri-Yoshino Sakuzo Award (2000).[1]

Hiroshi Inose            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hiroshi Inose: was an electrical engineer, known as the inventor of the time slot interchange system, which is basic to modern digital telephone switches.Inose graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1948, and received his doctorate there in 1955. From 1956 to 1958 he was an associate at the University of Pennsylvania and a consultant at Bell Labs, where he developed the time slot interchange system. From 1961 to 1987 he returned to the University of Tokyo as a professor of electrical engineering, after which he became the Director General of Japan's National Center for Science Information Systems.

Hiroshi Komiyama            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hiroshi Komiyama: a Japanese scientist. He has been the president of University of Tokyo since April 2005. His major research fields are Chemical engineering, Environmental engineering, functional material science and CVD reaction engineering. He is member of the World Knowledge Dialogue Scientific Board.

Wakanoyama Hiroshi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Wakanoyama Hiroshi: is a former sumo wrestler from Gobo, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. His highest rank was komusubi. Wakanoyama made his professional debut in March 1988. Joining at the same time as him were future yokozuna Akebono, Takanohana and Wakanohana, and ozeki Kaio.