Kiyoshi

Notable people with the name include: Kiyoshi is a Japanese masculine given name .

Origin and meanings

The Japanese first name means, among other things, the pure, the quiet.

Name bearer

• Kiyoshi Atsumi (1928–1996), Japanese actor
• Kiyoshi Ejima (* 1957), Japanese politician
• Kiyoshi Furuya (1878–1945), Japanese officer
• Kiyoshi Gōda (1862-1938), Japanese woodcut artist
• Kiyoshi Hara (* 1936), Japanese potter and ceramic artist
• Kiyoshi Hasegawa (1891–1980), Japanese graphic artist
• Kiyoshi Inoue (1913–2001), Japanese historian, social scientist and university lecturer
• Kiyoshi Itō (1915-2008), Japanese mathematician
• Kiyoshi Kitagawa (* 1958), Japanese jazz bassist
• Kiyoshi Kurosawa (* 1955), Japanese director and screenwriter
• Kiyoshi Miki (1897–1945), Japanese philosopher
• Kiyoshi Oka (1901–1978), Japanese mathematician
• Kiyoshi Ōkubo (1935–1976), Japanese serial killer
• Kiyoshi Saitō (1907-1997), Japanese woodblock artist
• Kiyoshi Saitō (* 1962), Japanese table tennis player
• Kiyoshi Shiga (1871–1957), Japanese doctor and bacteriologist
• Kiyoshi Tanabe (* 1940), Japanese flyweight boxer
• Kiyoshi Tomizawa (* 1943), Japanese football player
• Kiyoshi Ueda (* 1948), Japanese politician
• Kiyoshi Yabuuchi (1906–2000), Japanese historian of science

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Duden: The large first name dictionary - origin and meaning of over 8000 first names , ISBN 3411060859
2. ↑ Beate Varnhorn: The new large lexicon of first names , Bertelsmann, ISBN 3577077328