# Yukio

Yukio is a masculine Japanese given name.

## Written forms

Yukio can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples:
* 幸夫, "happiness, man"
* 幸生, "happiness, live"
* 幸男, "happiness, man"
* 幸雄, "happiness, male"
* 行夫, "to go, man"
* 行男, "to go, man"
* 行雄, "to go, male"
* 之夫, "of, man"
* 之男, "of, man"
* 之雄, "of, male"
* 由起夫, "reason, to rise, man"
* 由紀夫, "reason, chronicle, man"
* 由記雄, "reason, scribe, male"
* 悠紀夫, "long time, chronicle, man"
* 雪雄, "snow, male"
The name can also be written in hiragana ゆきお or katakana ユキオ.

## Notable people with the name

* Yukio Akagariyama (赤狩山 幸男, born 1975), Japanese pocket billiards player
* Yukio Aki (阿木 由紀夫, 1930–2015), pseudonym of Akiyuki Nosaka (野坂 昭如), Japanese novelist, singer, lyricist, and politician
* Yukio Aoshima (青島 幸男, 1932–2006), Japanese politician who was Governor of Tokyo
* Yukio Arai (荒井 幸雄, born 1964), Japanese baseball player
* Yukio Araki (荒木 幸雄, 1928–1945), youngest-known Japanese Kamikaze pilot killed in World War II
* Yukio Edano (枝野 幸男, born 1964), Japanese politician
* Yukio Endō (遠藤 幸雄, 1937–2009), Japanese gymnast
* Yukio Futatsugi (二木 幸生, born 1970), Japanese video game developer
* Yukio Furuyama (古山 征男, born 1938), Japanese equestrian
* Yukio Hashi (橋 幸夫, born 1943), Japanese popular singer
* Yukio Hatoyama (鳩山 由紀夫, born 1947), Japanese Prime Minister
* Yukio Hattori (服部 幸應, born 1945), Japanese cook and television presenter
* Yukio Horigome (堀籠 幸男, born 1940), Japanese lawyer
* Yukio Iketani (池谷 幸雄, born 1970), Japanese gymnast
* Yukio Jitsukawa (実川 幸夫, born 1943), Japanese politician
* Yukio Kagayama (加賀山 就臣, born 1974), Japanese motorcycle racer
* Yukio Kasahara (笠原 幸雄, 1889–1988), Japanese soldier
* Yukio Kasaya (笠谷 幸生, born 1943), Japanese ski jumper
* Yukio Matsuda (松田 征男, born 1942), Japanese rower
* Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫, 1925–1970), Japanese writer
* Yukio Motoki (元木 由記雄, born 1971), Japanese rugby football player
* Yukio Ninagawa (蜷川 幸雄, 1935–2016), Japanese theatre director
* Yukio Odagiri (小田桐 幸雄, born 1956), Japanese boxer
* Yukio Okutsu (1921–2003), Hawaiian soldier who won the US Congressional Medal of Honor
* Yukio Ozaki (尾崎 行雄, 1859–1954), Japanese politician
* Yukio Peter (born 1984), Nauruan weightlifter
* Yukio Roho (露鵬 幸生, born 1980), Russian sumo wrestler
* Yukio Sakaguchi (坂口 征夫, born 1973), Japanese mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
* Yukio Segawa (瀬川 幸雄, born 1954), Japanese boxer
* Yukio Seki (関 行男, 1921–1944), Japanese naval aviator who led the first official kamikaze attack
* Yukio Shimoda (1921–1981), American actor
* Yukio Shmull (died 2018), Palauan politician
* Yukio Tabuchi (田淵 行男, 1905-1989), Japanese photographer
* Yukio Takeuchi (竹内 行夫, born 1943), Japanese Supreme Court justice
* Yukio Tanaka (田中 幸雄, born 1967), Japanese baseball player
* Yukio Tani (谷 幸雄, 1881-1950), Japanese judoka
* Yukio Tomioka (富岡 由紀夫, born 1964), Japanese politician
* Yukio Tsuchiya (土屋 征夫, born 1974), Japanese musician
* Yukio Yamaji (山地 悠紀夫, 1983-2009), Japanese murderer
* Yukio Yung, pseudonym of Terry Burrows, English writer and musician

## Fictional characters

* Yukio (雪緒), a heroine in the X-Men comics
* Yukio, female character in the Eric Van Lustbader novel, The Ninja
* Yukio Haibara (灰原 由起夫) (Johnny) in the anime Mahoraba
* Yukio Mashimi in the anime Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
* Yukio Oikawa (及川 悠紀夫) in the anime Digimon
* Yukio Tanaka (田中 幸雄) in the manga Beck
* Yukio Okumura (奥村 雪男), the twin character of the main protagonist Rin Okumura from the anime/manga, Blue Exorcist
* Yukio Washimine (鷲峰 雪緒), a character from the anime/manga, Black Lagoon
* Yukio Tonegawa (利根川 幸雄), one of the main antagonists in the anime/manga, Kaiji
* Yukio Hirayama (平山 幸雄), also known as "Fake Akagi", a character from the anime/manga, Akagi
* Yukio Hidaka (ヒダカ・ユキオ), a character from the anime Gundam Build Divers

## Other

* 5513 Yukio, asteroid
* "Death and Night and Blood (Yukio)", a song by The Stranglers from Black and White