Osamu
Osamu is a masculine Japanese given name.Possible writings
Osamu can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
- 治 "reign"
- 修 "discipline"
- 理 "logic"
- 収 "obtain"
- 紀 "chronicle"
- 統 "rule"
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.People with the name
- Osamu Abe, Japanese baseball player and coach
- Osamu Abe, Japanese rower
- Osamu Adachi, Japanese actor and a member of the acting group D-BOYS
- Osamu Akimoto, Japanese manga artist
- Osamu Dazai, Japanese author
- Osamu Dezaki, Japanese anime director
- Osamu Fukutani, Japanese film director
- Osamu Hayashi, Japanese television personality
- Osamu Inoue, Japanese long-distance runner
- Osamu Jinguuji, drummer of the Japanese band Remioromen
- Osamu Mandai, Japanese rower
- Osamu Matsuda or El Samurai, a Japanese professional wrestler
- Osamu Mukai, Japanese actor
- Osamu Muramatsu, Japanese astronomer, and a prolific discoverer of asteroids
- Osamu Nagayama, Japanese CEO of Chugai Pharmaceutical and Chairman of Sony Corporation
- Osamu Nakamura, Japanese shogi player
- Osamu Ochiai, Japanese sport shooter
- Osamu Saito, Japanese rower
- Osamu Saka, Japanese actor and voice actor
- Osamu Sato, Japanese artist, photographer and composer
- Osamu Sato , Japanese boxer
- Osamu Shimomura, Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist
- Osamu Shimomura, Japanese economist
- Osamu Shitara, Japanese comedian and television presenter
- Osamu Sumida, Japanese cyclist
- Osamu Tada, Japanese alpine skier
- Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist often credited as the "Father of Manga"
- Osamu Tsurumine, Japanese swimmer
- Osamu Ueno, Japanese freestyle skier
- Osamu Yamazaki, Japanese freestyle skier
Fictional characters
- Osamu Kamiyama, a character in the anime series Kamisama Kazoku
- Osamu Kimizuka, a character in the shōnen-ai manga Loveless
- Osamu Mikumo, a character in the anime and manga World Trigger
- Osamu Miya, a character in the manga Haikyū!!
- Osamu Dazai, a character in the anime and manga Bungou Stray Dogs
- Osamu Kashiwagi, a character in the video game series Yakuza
