Tetsuya

Infobox Given Name Revised
name = Tetsuya


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caption= Tetsuya Komuro, a music producer
pronunciation = Téts-ya
gender = Male
meaning = It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used.
region = Japanese
origin = Japanese
related names = Tetsuo
Tatsuya
footnotes =

Nihongo|Tetsuya|てつや, テツヤ is a common masculine Japanese given name.

Possible writings

Tetsuya can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
*哲也, "philosophy, to be"
*鉄也, "iron, to be"
*哲哉, "philosophy, alas"
*徹也, "devotion, to be"
*徹矢, "penetrate, arrow"
*鉄弥, "iron, increasingly"The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

Real people

;with the given name Tetsuya
*Tetsuya Chiba (てつや), a Japanese manga artist
*Tetsuya Endo (徹哉), a Japanese anime director
*Tetsuya Enomoto (哲也), a Japanese football player
*Tetsuya Fujii (哲也), a Japanese astronomer
*Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita (哲也), a Japanese severe storms researcher
*Tetsuya Hibino (哲也), a Japanese professional drifting driver
*Tetsuya Ichimura (哲也), a Japanese photographer
*Tetsuya Ishida (徹也), a Japanese painter
*Tetsuya Iwanaga (哲哉), a Japanese voice actor
*Tetsuya Kajiwara (徹也), a Japanese drummer
*Tetsuya Kakihara (徹也), a Japanese voice actor
*Tetsuya Kiyonari (哲也), a Japanese professional Go player
*Tetsuya Komuro (哲哉), Japanese keyboardist, songwriter and music producer
*Tetsuya Makita (哲也), a Japanese actor
*Tetsuya Matoyama (哲也), a Japanese professional baseball catcher
*Tetsuya Mizuguchi (哲也), a video game designer and producer
*Tetsuya Nakashima (哲也), a Japanese film director
*Tetsuya Nomura (哲也), a Japanese video game director
*Tetsuya Ota (哲也), a Japanese racecar driver
*Tetsuya Saruwatari (哲也), a Japanese manga artist
*Tetsuya Shibata (徹也), a video game music composer
*Tetsuya Shiokawa (鉄也), a Japanese politician
*Tetsuya Shiroo (哲彌), a Japanese yakuza
*Tetsuya Takahashi (哲哉), a Japanese video game creator
*Tetsuya Takeda (鉄矢), a Japanese singer and actor
*Tetsuya Wakuda (哲也), a Japanese-born Australian chef
*Tetsuya Watari (哲也), a Japanese stage, film, and television actor
*Tetsuya Yanagisawa (テツヤ), a Japanese anime director
*Tetsuya Yoneda (哲也), a Japanese professional baseball pitcher

Fictional characters

;with the given name Tetsuya
*Tetsuya Azuma (鉄也), the main protagonist of the anime series "Casshan" and 2004 film "Casshern"
*Tetsuya Kajiwara (哲也), a character in the manga and anime series "Fushigi Yūgi"
*Tetsuya Onodera (テツヤ), a character from the "Super Robot Wars" video game series
*Tetsuya Tsurugi (鉄也), the main protagonist in the manga and anime series "Great Mazinger"

ee also

*4343 Tetsuya, a Main-belt Asteroid
*Legendary Gambler Tetsuya, a gambling manga
*Tetsuya's, a restrant in Sydney, Australia