Yoshio

Yoshio is a Japanese name and may refer to:

Last name

• Shoji Yoshio (born 1943), Japanese sprint canoeist who competed in the mid 1960s

First name

• Yoshio Anabuki (born 1933), Japanese former baseball player and former manager of the Nankai Hawks
• Yoshio Fujiwara, former Japanese football player
• Yoshio Fukuyama (born 1921), theologian who holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Chicago
• Yoshio Furukawa, former Japanese football player
• Yoshio Hachiro (born 1948), Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ)
• Yoshio Harada (born 1940), Japanese actor
• Yoshio Inaba (1920–1998), Japanese actor who played Gorobei in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai
• Yoshio Ishida (born 1948), professional Go player
• Yoshio Kōsaku, Japanese scholar of "Dutch studies", and the chief Dutch translator in Nagasaki
• Yoshio Kato (born 1957), former Japanese football player
• Yoshio Kawai, Japanese voice actor
• Yoshio Kikugawa (born 1944), former Japanese football player
• Yoshio Kimura (born 1948), Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party
• Yoshio Kitagawa (born 1978), former Japanese football player
• Yoshio Kitajima (born 1975), Japanese football player
• Yoshio Kodaira (1905–1949), Japanese rapist and serial killer
• Yoshio Kodama (1911–1984), prominent figure in the rise of organized crime in Japan
• Yoshio Kojima (born 1980), Japanese comedian famous for appearing in only a small bathing suit
• Yoshio Kondo (1910–1990), biologist and malacologist
• Yoshio Kushida (born 1957), Japanese astronomer
• Yoshio Machida (born 1967), experimental musician, a steelpanist, composer, and visual artist
• Yoshio Maki (born 1958), Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan
• Yoshio Markino (1869–1956), Japanese artist and author who spent much of his life in London
• Yoshio Masuda (died 2009), former Japanese naval commander, regarded as the father of modern wave energy technology
• Yoshio Masui (born 1931), Japanese cell biologist
• Yoshio Mikami (1875–1950), Japanese mathematician and wasan historian
• Yoshio Mochizuki (born 1947), Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party
• Yoshio Muto, Japanese diplomat who served as Imperial Japan's consul general in the United States in 1941
• Yoshio Nakagawa (born 1938), Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party
• Yoshio Nakano, professional poker player and entrepreneur who resides in Long Beach, California
• Yoshio Nishi, Japanese scholar of Tibeto-Burman linguistics
• Yoshio Nishina (1890–1951), the founding father of modern physics research in Japan
• Yoshio Oishi (1659–1703), the chamberlain of the Akō han in Harima Province, Japan (1679–1701)
• Yoshio Okada (born 1926), former Japanese football player
• Yoshio Sakai (born 1910), Japanese field hockey player
• Yoshio Sakamoto (born 1959), Japanese game designer working for Nintendo
• Yoshio Sawai (born 1977), Japanese gag manga creator
• Yoshio Shinozuka (born 1923), former Imperial Army soldier who served with a top secret Japanese biological warfare group in World War II
• Yoshio Shirai (1923–2003), professional boxer from Tokyo, Japan
• Yoshio Tabata, Japanese ryūkōka and enka singer, songwriter and electric guitarist
• Yoshio Tachibana (1890–1946), lieutenant general of the Japanese Imperial Army
• Yoshio Taniguchi (born 1937), Japanese architect who redesigned the Museum of Modern Art in New York
• Yoshio Tarui (1902–1977), Japanese photographer
• Yoshio Tsuchiya (born 1927), Japanese actor who has appeared in several films
• Yoshio Ueki (born 1969), professional Go player
• Yoshio Urushibara (born 1944), Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party
• Yoshio Utsumi (born 1942), the secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union 1998–2006
• Yoshio Watanabe (1907–2000), renowned Japanese photographer
• Yoshio Yamada (1873–1958), Japanese linguist
• Yoshio Yatsu (born 1934), Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party
• Yoshio Yoda, Japanese actor who played Fuji Kobiaji on the television series McHale's Navy
• Yoshio Yoshida (born 1933), professional baseball player in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball