Hiro
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Hiro may refer to:
- Hiroo, HokkaidoHiroo, Hokkaidois a town located in Hiroo District, Tokachi, Hokkaidō, Japan.As of 2008, the town has an estimated population of 8,209 and a density of 14.28 persons per km². The total area is 596.14 km²....
, a town in Japan - Hiro Naval ArsenalHiro Naval ArsenalThe Hiro Naval Arsenal at Kure was a production facility for seaplanes, flying boats, and aero engines for the Imperial Japanese Navy before and during World War II...
at Kure, Hiroshima - HiroshimaHiroshimais the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M...
, a city in Japan - Hiro (film)Hiro (film)Hiro is a short film about a Japanese insect collector who is forced outof his shell by a series of strange events. As funny as it is touching, Hiro drawsinspiration from disparate sources to weave a unified tale of obsession, love, loss, and...
, a Canadian short film
People
- Hiro Yamagata (artist)Hiro Yamagata (artist)Hiro Yamagata is a painter/artist, based in Los Angeles, California....
(born 1948), Japanese painter/artist - Hiro (music producer)Hiro (music producer)Hiro is a Japanese music producer, associated with production company Digz, inc.. He began producing songs in 2007, beginning with dance group PaniCrew's single "Growing & Leaning." His most successful song is currently Kumi Koda's "Taboo," which reached #1 on Oricon's single charts in 2008...
(born 1985), Japanese music producer (writer of Kumi Koda's "Taboo") - Hiro (photographer)Hiro (photographer)Yasuhiro Wakabayashi, professionally known as Hiro, is an American commercial photographer. He was born in Shanghai in 1930 to Japanese parents...
(born 1930), American fashion photographer - Hiroko ShimabukuroHiroko ShimabukuroHiroko Shimabukuro , best known mononymously as hiro, is a Japanese singer. She debuted as a member of the popular girl group Speed in 1996. In 1998, hiro released her first solo song "Mitsumete Itai" as a B-side to Speed's single "All My True Love"...
(born 1984), Japanese musician with the stage name Hiro - Hiroyuki WatanabeHiroyuki Watanabeis a Japanese actor who was born in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture. He graduated from Takushoku University and is married to . He primarily acts in dramas, of which a handful are tokusatsu series. One of his most recent roles was as Taiga Saejima in the tokusatsu series GARO...
(born 1955), Japanese actor - Hiro MashimaHiro Mashimais a Japanese manga artist. He is most known for his fantasy manga Groove Adventure Rave, published by Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine, from 1999 to 2005. The series was later adapted into an anime. However, the anime adaption was cancelled before it could complete the series.In 2003, he...
(born 1977), Japanese manga artist and the creator of Rave Master - Hiro MuramotoHiro Muramotowas a Japanese cameraman and journalist, who worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Tokyo in the 1990s, and who reported for Reuters television for more than 15 years. Muramoto was based in Reuters' Tokyo bureau.-Career:...
(died 2010), Japanese cameraman and journalist slain during the 2010 Thai political protests - Hiro FujiwaraHiro Fujiwarais a Japanese manga artist.The manga artist was once active under her previous pen name, at the end of the 90's but has abandoned the name after she won the Best Rookie award in the LMS for Kaeri Michi, Yuki no Netsu....
Japanese manga artist, once active under her previous pen name, Izumi Hiro - Hiro Mizushima (born 1984), Japanese model and actor
Characters
- Hiro NakamuraHiro Nakamurais a fictional character on the NBC fantasy drama Heroes who possesses the ability of space-time manipulation. This means that Hiro is able to alter the flow of time. Previously, his ability allowed him to teleport, stop time, or travel through time, but recent events in the series have prevented...
, a character in the Heroes television series - Hiro GrangerHiro GrangerHiro Granger, known in the Japanese versions as is a fictional character in the anime and manga series of Beyblade. He only appears in the third season of the anime, Beyblade G-Revolution, but appears throughout the manga from the beginning. He is the older brother of Tyson Granger. His bit-beast...
, a character in Beyblade series - Hiro Protagonist, a character in the science fiction novel Snow Crash
- Hiro Sohma, a character in the Fruits Basket series
- Hiroshi Nohara, a character from the Crayon Shin-Chan series
- Hiro, a character from the game "bust a groove" (Bust a move in japan)
- Hiro, a character from the Hidamari Sketch comic strip
- Hiro, the main character in Lunar: Eternal BlueLunar: Eternal Blueis a role-playing video game developed by Game Arts and Studio Alex for the Mega-CD as the sequel to Lunar: The Silver Star. The game was originally released in December 1994 in Japan, and later in North America in September 1995 by Working Designs...
video game - Hiro, a character in Ginga Densetsu Weed series
- Hiro Sakurai, a main character in the Original English-language manga Miki FallsMiki FallsMiki Falls is an OEL manga series created by Mark Crilley. It is structured as a four-volume series, each book taking place during one of the seasons over the course of a year.-Plot:...
- Hiro, a Japanese steam engine character from the Thomas and Friends special "Hero of the Rails"
- Hiro Fuse, a character from Scott Westerfeld's book, "ExtrasExtras (novel)Extras is a young adult science fiction novel written by Scott Westerfeld. The novel was published and released by Simon & Schuster on October 2, 2007, and is a companion book to the Uglies series. However, Extras differs from its predecessors in that its protagonist is fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse,...
", of the Uglies series - Hiro the Mini Ninja, a player character in Mini NinjasMini NinjasMini Ninjas is a 2009 action-adventure video game developed by IO Interactive and published by Eidos Interactive. It was released on 8 September 2009 in North America and 11 September 2009 for Europe, for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360...
video game - Heero Yuy (ヒロ・ユイ, Hiro Yui), Pilot of the Zero suit in Mobile Suit Gundam WingMobile Suit Gundam WingMobile Suit Gundam Wing, known in Japan as , is an anime series in the mecha genre, and is one of the alternate universe Gundam series, taking place in the After Colony timeline. It is the second alternate universe in the Gundam media franchise, following Mobile Fighter G Gundam...
Other
- "Hiro's Song", by Ben Folds
- "Yuko and Hiro", a Blur song
- "Letter from Hiro", by The Vapors, off New Clear DaysNew Clear DaysNew Clear Days was The Vapors's 1980 debut album containing the UK hit single "Turning Japanese", which reached No. 3 in the chart in February 1980. A remix of "News at Ten" , went to No. 45 in July of that year...
- Hiro (TV channel)Hiro (TV channel)Hiro was an Italian television channel, owned by television network Mediaset. Aimed to a children and teens viewership, was launched in 2008 as part of Mediaset Premium pay television network. The channel was devoted to broadcasting anime programming...
, an Italian channel - Hiro (Robot)Hiro (Robot)A leg-less humanoid robot. Is a low cost 7.5M JPY humanoid robot manufactured by Kawada KK of Japan. Its servomotors have millimiter precision. It is primarily employed in R&D centers and universities. Runs real time Linux QNX in a 5ms loop...
, by Kawada Corp.