People
Takahashi is the third most common Japanese family name. It has several forms in kanji, the most common being 高橋, meaning "high bridge". Alternatively, it can be written 髙橋, 高梁, 孝橋, 鷹橋, 高槁, 高端, 鷹啄, 喬橋, 鷹羽司, etc.
Being one of the most common surnames, it can refer to many people, including:
- Ai Takahashi (singer)
- Aki Takahashi (pianist)
- Atsushi Takahashi (astronomer)
- Daisuke Takahashi (figure skater)
- Daisuke Takahashi (football (soccer) player)
- Gentaro Takahashi (professional wrestler)
- Hideki Takahashi (actor)
- Hiroki Takahashi (voice actor)
- Hiroshi Takahashi (manga artist)
- Hisanori Takahashi (baseball pitcher)
- Hitomi Takahashi (actress)
- Hitomi Takahashi (singer)
- Ibō Takahashi (World War II admiral)
- Katsuya Takahashi (conspirator in the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway)
- Joseph Takahashi - neurobiologist and geneticist
- Kazuki Takahashi (manga artist)
- Kazumi Takahashi (author)
- Keita Takahashi (game designer)
- Ken Takahashi (baseball pitcher)
- Kenichi Takahashi (long-distance runner)
- Kenji Takahashi (delivery man for Kong Express in Japan; Sasuke competitor)
- Kichizaemon Takahashi (Japanese-Brazilian painter)
- Takahashi Korekiyo (former Prime Minister of Japan)
- Kunimitsu Takahashi (motorcycling champion turned car racer)
- Kuniyuki Takahashi (DJ and music producer)
- Masakazu Takahashi (martial artist)
- Masanori Takahashi a.k.a. Kitaro
- Maasa Takahashi (announcer)
- Mikako Takahashi (voice actor, singer)
- Minami Takahashi (singer, actress)
- Mitsuomi Takahashi (actor)
- Miyuki Takahashi (athlete)
- Takahashi Motokichi (author)
- NaoKo TakaHashi (artist)
- Naoko Takahashi (athlete)
- Naozumi Takahashi (voice actor)
- Narumi Takahashi (figure skater)
- Natsuko Takahashi (anime screen writer)
- Rumiko Takahashi (manga artist)
- Ryōsuke Takahashi (director, screenwriter and producer)
- Ryūki Takahashi (actor)
- Sakuye Takahashi (international law scholar)
- Shin Takahashi (manga artist)
- Taku Takahashi (producer)
- Tetsuya Takahashi (video games conceptor)
- Tomoko Takahashi (artist)
- Tomotaka Takahashi (roboticist)
- Wakagi Takahashi (Stony Brook University Professor)
- Yasuko Takahashi a.k.a. Izumi Aki (actress)
- Yōichi Takahashi (manga artist)
- Yoshinobu Takahashi (baseball player)
- Yugo Takahashi (voice actor)
- Yūji Takahashi (author, pianist)
- Yuki Takahashi (motorcycle road racer)
- Yukihiro Takahashi (musician)
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