# Tetsuya

Tetsuya is a masculine Japanese given name.

## Written forms

Tetsuya can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
* 哲也, "philosophy, to be"
* 鉄也, "iron, to be"
* 哲哉, "philosophy, alas"
* 徹也, "devotion, to be"
* 徹矢, "penetrate, arrow"
* 鉄弥, "iron, increasingly"
The name can also be written in hiragana てつや or katakana テツヤ.

## People with the name

* Tetsuya (dancer) (born 1981), Japanese dancer
* Tetsuya (musician) (born 1969), Japanese musician
* Tetsuya Asano (浅野 哲也, born 1967) is a former Japanese football player and manager
* Tetsuya Chiba (てつや, born 1939), Japanese manga artist
* Tetsuya Chikushi (哲也, 1935–2008), Japanese newscaster
* Tetsuya Endo (disambiguation), multiple people
* Tetsuya Enomoto (哲也, born 1983), Japanese football player
* Tetsuya Fujii (哲也), a Japanese astronomer
* Tetsuya Fujimori (藤森 哲也, born 1987), Japanese shogi player
* Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita (哲也, 1920–1998), Japanese severe storms researcher
* Tetsuya Funatsu (舩津 徹也, born 1987) is a Japanese football player
* Tetsuya Harada (哲也, born 1970), Japanese former GP motorcycle racer
* Tetsuya Hibino (哲也, born 1974), Japanese professional drifting driver
* Tetsuya Ichimura (哲也, born 1930), Japanese photographer
* Tetsuya Ishida (徹也, 1973–2005), Japanese painter
* Tetsuya Ito (伊藤 哲也, born 1970), Japanese footballer
* Tetsuya Iwanaga (哲哉, born 1970), Japanese voice actor
* Tetsuya Kajiwara (drummer) (徹也, born 1963), Japanese drummer
* Tetsuya Kakihara (徹也, born 1982), Japanese voice actor
* Tetsuya Kakiuchi (垣内 哲也, born 1970) is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball outfielder
* Tetsuya Kiyonari (哲也, born 1961), Japanese professional Go player
* Tetsuya Koishi (小石 哲也, born 1990), Japanese footballer
* Tetsuya Kokubo (小窪 哲也, born 1985), Japanese baseball player
* Tetsuya Komuro (哲哉, born 1958), Japanese keyboardist, songwriter and music producer
* Tetsuya Kumakawa (熊川 哲也, born 1972), Japanese ballet dancer
* Tetsuya Makita (哲也, born 1984), Japanese actor
* Tetsuya Matoyama (哲也, born 1970), Japanese professional baseball catcher
* Tetsuya Matsumoto (松本 哲也, born 1984), Japanese baseball player
* Tetsuya Mizuguchi (哲也, born 1965), Japanese video game designer and producer
* Tetsuya Murayama (村山 哲也, born 1974), Japanese football manager
* Tetsuya Naito (哲也, born 1982), Japanese professional wrestler
* Tetsuya Nakashima (哲也, born 1959), Japanese film director
* Nishikigi Tetsuya (錦木 徹也, born 1990), Japanese sumo wrestler
* Tetsuya Noda (野田 哲也, born 1940), Japanese artist, printmaker and educator
* Tetsuya Nomura (哲也, born 1970), Japanese video game director
* Tetsuya Ōkubo (大久保 哲哉, born 1980) is a Japanese football player
* Tetsuya Ota (哲也, born 1959), Japanese racecar driver
* Tetsuya Saito (斉藤 哲也, born 1983), Japanese ice hockey player
* Tetsuya Saruwatari (哲也, born 1958), Japanese manga artist
* Tetsuya Shibata (徹也, born 1973), video game music composer
* Tetsuya Shimizu (清水 哲也, born 1983), Japanese professional wrestler
* Tetsuya Shikawa 鉄也, Japanese politician
* Tetsuya Shiroo (哲彌, born 1948), Japanese yakuza
* Tetsuya Takahashi (哲哉, born 1966), Japanese video game creator
* Tetsuya Takeda (鉄矢), Japanese singer and actor
* Tetsuya Takehora (竹洞哲也, born 1974) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
* Tetsuya Tanaka (田中哲也, born 1965) is a Japanese racing driver
* Tetsuya Totsuka (戸塚 哲也, born 1961), Japanese footballer and manager
* Tetsuya Utsumi (内海 哲也, born 1982) is a Japanese professional baseball player
* Tetsuya Wakuda (哲也, born 1959), Japanese-born Australian chef
* Tetsuya Watari (哲也, born 1941), Japanese stage, film, and television actor
* Tetsuya Yamagami (山上 徹也), the only suspect in the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe
* Tetsuya Yamaguchi (山口 鉄也, born 1983), Japanese baseball player
* Tetsuya Yamamoto (山本 哲哉, born 1985), Japanese baseball player
* Tetsuya Yanagisawa (テツヤ), Japanese anime director
* Tetsuya Yoneda (哲也, born 1938), Japanese professional baseball pitcher
* Tetsuya Yoroizaka (鎧坂 哲哉, born 1990), Japanese long-distance runner

## Fictional characters

* Tetsuya Azuma (鉄也), protagonist of the 1973 anime series Casshan and of the 2004 film Casshern
* Tetsuya Kajiwara (Fushigi Yūgi) (哲也), in the manga and anime series Fushigi Yūgi
* Tetsuya Kuroko, the protagonist of the manga and anime series Kuroko's Basketball
* Tetsuya Sendo, a friend of Ritsu Kasanoda in the manga and anime series Ouran High School Host Club
* Tetsuya Takahashi, in Haruki Murakami's novel After Dark
* Tetsuya Tsurugi (鉄也), the protagonist of manga and anime series Great Mazinger
* Tetsuya Watarigani, a recurring character in the anime series Beyblade: Metal Fusion
* Tetsuya Yuuki (哲也), in the manga and anime series Ace of Diamond
* Tetsuya, Japanese name of Tyson from Pokémon: Advanced Battle
* Tetsuya Yano, a character from Choujuu Sentai Liveman
* Tetsuya from Yokai Watch