# Tōru (given name)

Tōru is a masculine Japanese given name.

## Written forms

Tōru can be expressed with several kanji. Some examples:
* 徹, "penetrate"
* 透, "transparent"
* 享, "enjoy"
* 亨, "smoothly"
* 暢, "freely"
The name can also be written in hiragana とおる or katakana トオル.

## Notable people with the name

* Toru Abe (安部 徹, 1917–1993), Japanese actor
* Toru Arakawa (荒川 通, 1932–2015), Japanese karateka
* Toru Arase (荒瀬 徹, born 1935), Japanese water polo player
* Tōru Doi (土井 亨, born 1958), Japanese politician
* Tooru Fujisawa (藤沢 とおる, born 1967), Japanese manga artist
* Tōru Furusawa (古澤 徹, born 1962), Japanese voice actor
* Tōru Furuya (古谷 徹, born 1953), Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator
* Tōru Hashimoto (橋下 徹, born 1969), Governor of Osaka Prefecture
* Toru Itabashi (板橋 亨, born 1946), Japanese ice hockey player
* Toru Iwatani (岩谷 徹, born 1955), Japanese video game designer
* Toru Iwaya (岩谷 徹, born 1936), Japanese mezzotint engraver and painter
* Tōru Kakizoe (垣添 徹, born 1978), Japanese former sumo wrestler
* Toru Kobayashi (小林 徹), Japanese astronomer
* Tōru Matsumoto (松本徹) (born 1977), Japanese badminton player
* Tōru Nara (奈良 徹), Japanese voice actor
* Tōru Nimura (仁村 徹, born 1961), Japanese baseball player
* Tōru Ōhira (大平 透, 1929–2016), Japanese voice actor and narrator
* Toru Okajima (岡島 徹, born 1943), Japanese ice hockey player
* Tōru Ōkawa (大川 透, born 1960), Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator
* Toru "Tiger" Okoshi, Japanese-American trumpet player
* Tōru Shinohara (篠原 とおる, born 1936), Japanese manga artist
* Toru Takahashi (baseball) (高橋 徹, born 1987), Japanese baseball player
* Toru Takahashi (Internet) (高橋 徹, born 1941), Japanese computer network researcher and businessman
* Toru Takahashi (racing driver) (高橋 徹, 1960–1983), Japanese racing driver
* Toru Takasuka (高須賀 宣, born 1966), Japanese software entrepreneur
* Tōru Takemitsu (武満 徹, 1930–1996), Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory
* Tōru Toida (戸井田 徹, born 1951), Japanese politician
* Toru Toyoda (豊田 亨, 1968–2018), A perpetrator of the Tokyo subway sarin attack
* Toru Yamashita (山下 亨, born 1988), Japanese guitarist
* Toru Yano (矢野 通, born 1978), Japanese professional wrestler
* Tooru Yonaha (與那覇 徹, born 1976), Japanese folk singer
* Toru Yonezawa (米沢 徹, born 1958), Japanese tennis player
* Toru Yoshida (吉田 暢, born 1965), Japanese footballer and manager
* Toru Tsuzaki (津﨑 徹, born 1979), Japanese Researcher

## Fictional characters

* Tohru (トオル), in Jackie Chan Adventures
* Tohru (トオル), a character in Kare First Love
* Toru (トオル), also known as Todd Snap, in the Pokémon anime
* Toru, in Chris Bradford's Young Samurai
* Tooru Amami (天美 透), in The World God Only Knows
* Toru Asakura (浅倉 透), in The Idolmaster Shiny Colors
* Toru Egawa, in Business as Usual, a Finder Series fanfiction by Kadzuki_Fuchoin
* Tōru Hagakure (葉隠 透), in My Hero Academia
* Tōru Hikawa (氷川 透), Tory Froid, in MegaMan NT Warrior
* Tohru Honda (本田 透), in Fruits Basket
* Tōru Ichii (一井 透), in A Channel
* Toru Ishikawa in Horimiya
* Toru Kazama (風間 トオル), in Crayon Shin-chan
* Tohru Kobayashi (小林 トール), the titular draconian servant in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
* Toru Kouno (河野 亨), in Princess Princess
* Tōru Miyamae (宮前 透), in Seiren
* Tohru Mutou (武藤 徹), in Shiki
* Tōru Mutsuki (六月 透), in Tokyo Ghoul
* Toru Narita (成田 徹), in Hot Gimmick
* Tooru Oikawa (及川 徹), in Haikyū!! with the position of captain and setter from Aoba Johsai High
* Toru Okada (岡田 亨), in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
* Toru Oshikiri (押切 トオル), in the series of the same name by Junji Ito
* Tōru Rikiishi (力石 徹), in Ashita no Joe
* Toru Sato (トオル・サトウ), in the game Need for Speed: Most Wanted
* Tohru Suidohbashi (水道橋 徹), of Machine Robo Rescue.
* Tōru Watanabe (ワタナベ トオル), in Norwegian Wood
* Tōru Yasunaga (安永 透), in The Decay of the Angel