# Hideki

Hideki (ひでき, ヒデキ) is a common masculine Japanese given name.

## Written forms

Hideki can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
* 秀樹, "excellence", "timber trees"
* 英樹, "superior", "timber trees"
* 英機, "superior", "chance"
* 秀喜, "excellence", "pleasure"
* 秀紀, "excellence", "chronicle"
* 英輝, "superior", "brightness"
* 英希, "superior", "hope"
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

## People with the name

Notable people with the name include:
* Hideki Arai (新井 英樹, born 1963), Japanese manga artist
* Asanoyama Hideki (朝乃山 英樹, born 1994), Japanese sumo wrestler
* Hideki Chihara (千原 英喜, born 1957), Japanese composer
* Hideki Fujii (藤井 秀樹, born 1934), Japanese photographer
* Hideki Fujisawa (藤沢 秀樹, born 1963), also known as Dance☆Man, Japanese musician
* Hideki Hamaguchi (浜口 秀樹, born 1956), Japanese basketball player
* Hideki Hosaka (保坂 秀樹, 1971–2021), Japanese professional wrestler
* Hideki Imai (今井 秀樹, born 1943), Japanese information theorist and cryptographer
* Hideki Imamura (今村 栄喜, born 1972), Japanese musician, co-founder and vocalist of the band Siam Shade
* Hideki Irabu (伊良部 秀輝, 1969–2011), Japanese professional baseball player who played in both Japan and the United States
* Hideki Ishige (石毛 秀樹, born 1994), Japanese footballer
* Hideki Ishima (石間 秀機, born 1944), Japanese musician
* Hideki Kadowaki (門脇 英基, born 1976), Japanese mixed martial artist
* Hideki Kamiya (神谷 英樹, born 1970), Japanese video game designer
* Hideki Kase (加瀬 秀樹, born 1959), Japanese professional golfer
* Kato Hideki (加藤 英樹, born 1962), Japanese musician and composer
* Hideki Kita (喜多 秀喜, born 1952), retired Japanese long-distance runner
* Hideki Komatsu (小松英樹, born 1967), Japanese Go player
* Hideki Maeda (前田 秀樹, born 1954), Japanese footballer and manager
* Hideki Makihara (牧原 秀樹, born 1971), Japanese politician
* Hideki Matsui (松井 秀喜, born 1974), Japanese baseball player
* Hideki Matsutake (松武 秀樹, born 1951), Japanese electronic musician
* Hideki Matsuoka (松岡 秀樹, born 1968), Japanese Go player
* Hideki Matsuyama (松山 英樹, born 1992), Japanese golfer
* Hideki Mitsui (三井 秀樹, born 1963), Japanese screenwriter
* Hideki Miyazaki (宮崎 秀基, born 1962), Japanese Nordic combined skier
* Hideki Mori (森 秀樹, born 1961), Japanese manga artist
* Hideki Murai (村井 英樹, born 1980), Japanese politician
* Hideki Mutoh (武藤 英紀, born 1982), Japanese race car driver
* Hideki Nagai (永井 秀樹, born 1971), Japanese footballer and manager
* Hideki Nagano (永野 英樹, born 1968), Japanese classical pianist
* Hideki Naganuma (長沼 英樹, born 1972), Japanese video game music composer
* Hideki Nakano (中野 秀樹, born 1952), Japanese Nordic combined skier
* Hideki Nanba (難波 英樹, born 1974), Japanese rugby union player
* Hideki Niwa (丹羽 秀樹, born 1972), Japanese politician
* Hideki Niizuma (新妻 秀規, born 1970), Japanese politician
* Hideki Noda (野田 英樹, born 1969), Japanese racing driver
* Hideki Noda (playwright) (野田 秀樹, born 1955), Japanese actor, playwright and theatre director
* Hideki Okada (岡田 秀樹, born 1958), Japanese racing driver
* Hideki Okajima (岡島 秀樹, born 1974), Japanese baseball player
* Hideki Omoto (大元 英照, born 1984), Japanese rower
* Hideki Saijo (西城 秀樹, 1955–2018), Japanese singer and television celebrity
* Hideki Sakamoto (坂本 英城, born 1972), Japanese music composer
* Hideki Seo (瀬尾 英樹, born 1974), Japanese-born fashion designer
* Hideki Shingō (新郷 英城, 1911–1982), Japanese fighter pilot officer
* Hideki Shirakawa (白川 英樹, born 1936), Japanese chemist and winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
* Hideki Sunaga (須永 英輝, born 1985), Japanese baseball player
* Hideki Suzuki (鈴木 秀樹, born 1980), Japanese professional wrestler
* Hideki Tachibana (橘 秀樹), Japanese writer and anime director
* Hideki Takahashi (高橋 英樹, born 1944), Japanese actor
* Hideki Tasaka (田坂 秀樹, born 1975), Japanese voice actor
* Hideki Todaka (戸高 秀樹, born 1973), Japanese boxer
* Hideki Togi (東儀 秀樹, born 1959), Japanese composer, gagaku musician, and actor
* Hideki Tojo (東條 英機, 1884–1948), Japanese Prime Minister during World War II
* Hideki Uchidate (内舘 秀樹, born 1974), Japanese footballer
* Hideki Yamauchi (山内 英輝, born 1988), Japanese racing driver
* Hideki Yuasa (湯浅 秀樹, born 1964), Japanese naval officer
* Hideki Yukawa (湯川 秀樹, 1907–1981), Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate

## Fictional characters

* Hideki Motosuwa (本須和秀樹), a character in the manga series Chobits
* Hideki, a character in the anime series Devil Hunter Yohko
* Hideki Go, the alter ego of Ultraman Jack from the 1971 tokusatsu film The Return of Ultraman
* Ryūga Hideki (流河 旱樹), an alias for L from the manga Death Note
* Hideki Nishimura, a character in the light novel series And You Thought There Is Never a Girl Online?
* Hideki Kurohagi, the secondary antagonist of the anime miniseries Marvel Anime: Wolverine