Akira (first name)
Akira is a double-gender Japanese given name meaning radiant or bright . It is more common in men than women.
Selection of possible spellings:
- in katakana : ア キ ラ
- in Hiragana : あ き ら
- in Kanji : 明, 光, 旭, 玲, 彰, 晶, 彬, 晄, 徴, 晃, 章, 亨, 陽, 日, 昭, 亮, 聰, 日 明, 明朗, 亜 喜 良
Name bearer
- Akira Abe (1934-1989), Japanese writer
- Akira Amano (* 1973), Japanese mangaka
- Akira Amari (* 1949), Japanese politician
- Akira Asada (* 1957), Japanese economist, philosopher and cultural critic
- Akira Endō (* 1933), Japanese biochemist
- Akira Fujishima (* 1942), Japanese chemist
- Akira Gunji (* 1949), Japanese politician
- Akira Hasegawa (* 1934) Japanese plasma physicist
- Akira Higashi (* 1972) Japanese ski jumper
- Akira Ifukube (1914-2006), Japanese composer
- Iriye Akira (* 1934), Japanese historian
- Akira Ishida (* 1967), Japanese voice actor
- Akira Jimbo (* 1959), Japanese jazz fusion drummer
- Akira Kaji (* 1980), Japanese football player
- Akira Kakinuma (* 1972), Japanese road cyclist
- Akira Kamiya (* 1946), Japanese voice actor
- Akira Kitaguchi (* 1935), Japanese national soccer player
- Akira Koga (* 1994), Japanese badminton player
- Akira Koike (* 1960), Japanese politician
- Akira Kubo (born 1936), Japanese actor
- Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), Japanese director
- Akira Lane (born 1981), Japanese actress
- Akira Lenting (* 1990), Japanese cross-country skier
- Matsunaga Akira (soccer player, 1914) (1914-1943), Japanese soccer player
- Akira Matsunaga (soccer player, 1948) (born 1948), Japanese soccer player
- Akira Miyawaki (* 1928), Japanese university professor and plant sociologist
- Akira Miyoshi (1933-2013), Japanese composer
- Akira Mori (* 1936), Japanese entrepreneur
- Murata Akira (1921-2006), Japanese entrepreneur
- Mutō Akira (1892–1948), Lieutenant General of the Imperial Japanese Army
- Akira Nagatsuma (* 1960), Japanese politician
- Akira Natori (* 1956), Japanese astronomer and asteroid discoverer
- Ogata Akira (1887-1988), Japanese pharmacologist
- Akira Rabelais (* 1966), American musician, composer and software developer
- Akira Sakata (* 1945), Japanese jazz musician
- Akira Sasaki (* 1981), Japanese ski racer
- Akira Sasō (* 1961), Japanese mangaka
- Akira Satō (politician) (* 1951), Japanese politician
- Akira Satō (ski jumper) (* 1964), Japanese ski jumper
- Akira Shiizuka (* 1935), Japanese cameraman
- Shizuo Akira (* 1953), Japanese immunologist
- Akira Suzuki (* 1930), Japanese chemist
- Akira Takayama (* 1969), Japanese theater director
- Akira Tana (* 1952), American jazz musician
- Akira Toda (* 1951), Japanese composer
- Akira Tonomura (1942–2012), Japanese physicist
- Akira Toriyama (* 1955), Japanese mangaka
- Akira Uchiyama (* 1954), Japanese politician
- Akira Yamaoka (* 1968), Japanese music producer and composer
- Akira Yoshimura (1927-2006), Japanese writer
- Akira Yoshizawa (1911–2005), Japanese origami master