Takeshi

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

Well-known namesake

• Takeshi Aoki (* 1982), Japanese football player
• Araki Takeshi (1916–1994), Japanese politician
• Takeshi Honda (* 1981), Japanese figure skater
• Takeshi Kaikō (1930–1989), Japanese writer
• Takeshi Kamura (* 1990), Japanese badminton player
• Takeshi Kaneshiro (* 1973), Taiwanese-Japanese actor
• Takeshi Kitano (* 1947), Japanese director and actor
• Takeshi Maeda (* 1937), Japanese politician
• Takeshi Matsuda (* 1984), Japanese swimmer
• Takeshi Miyanaga (* 1940), Japanese badminton player
• Mori Takeshi (1894–1945), Lieutenant General in the Imperial Japanese Army
• Motai Takeshi (1908–1956), Japanese book illustrator
• Nagata Takeshi (1913–1991), Japanese geophysicist
• Takeshi Nishimoto (* 1974), Japanese musician
• Takeshi Obata (* 1969), Japanese manga artist
• Takeshi Oka (* 1932), Canadian chemist
• Takeshi Okada (* 1956), Japanese football player and coach
• Takeshi Okumura (* 1952), Japanese pool player
• Takeshi Ōno (soccer player, 1944) (* 1944), Japanese soccer player
• Takeshi Ono (soccer player, 1962) (born 1962), Japanese soccer player and coach
• Takeshi Saitō (* 1981), Japanese ice hockey player
• Takeshi Seyama (* 1944), Japanese film editor
• Takeshi Sō (* 1953), Japanese marathon runner
• Takeshi Yamanaka (* 1971), Japanese ice hockey player and coach
• Takeshi Yasutoko (* 1986), Japanese inline skater