Hirose
Hirose ( Japanese 広 瀬 ) means:
- a city in Miyazaki Prefecture: Hirose (Miyazaki) (today: Miyazaki (Miyazaki) )
- a city in Shimane Prefecture: Hirose (Shimane) (today: Yasugi )
- a city in Yamaguchi Prefecture: Hirose (Yamaguchi) (now: Iwakuni )
- a fiefdom with capital in Hirose, Shimane: Hirose (Han)
- an asteroid: (1612) Hirose
- one company: Hirose Electric
- the Hirose Shrine in Nara, one of the 22 shrines
Hirose is the family name of the following people:
- Akira Hirose (1941–2017), Japanese-Canadian physicist
- Ayako Hirose (* 1969), Japanese tennis player
- Eriko Hirose (* 1985), Japanese badminton player
- Hirose Gyokusō (1807–1863), Japanese neo-Confucian scholar, poet and educator
- Hayato Hirose (* 1974), Japanese composer and conductor
- Hideo Hirose (1909–1981), Japanese astronomer
- Katsusada Hirose (* 1942), Japanese politician
- Kei Hirose (* 1995) Japanese soccer player
- Keizo Hirose († 1971), Japanese founder of Hirose Electric
- Ken'ichi Hirose , Japanese assassin from the Ōmu Shinrikyō sect
- Kenta Hirose (* 1992), Japanese football player
- Kōji Hirose (* 1984), Japanese football player
- Osamu Hirose (* 1965), Japanese football player
- Rikuto Hirose (* 1995), Japanese football player
- Ryōhei Hirose (1930-2008), Japanese composer
- Satoshi Hirose (* 1976), Japanese racing cyclist
- Shigeo Hirose (* 1947), Japanese inventor and engineer
- Hirose Tansō (1782-1856), Japanese neo-Confucian scholar, educator and writer
- Tomoyasu Hirose (* 1989), Japanese football player
