Daisuke

Daisuke
Pronunciation	Dá-í-s(ú)-ké
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/Name	Japanese
Meaning	It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used.
Region of origin	Japan

Daisuke (だいすけ, ダイスケ) is a common masculine Japanese given name.

Possible writings

Daisuke can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

• 大輔, "big, help"
• 大介, "big, mediate"
• 大祐, "big, help"
• 大助, "big, help"
• 大典, "big, law/rule/ceremony"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

Manga artists

• Daisuke Higuchi
• Daisuke Igarashi
• Daisuke Moriyama

Sportspeople

• Daisuke Ikeshima, race walker
• Daisuke Matsuzaka, baseball player
• Daisuke Nakata, trampolinist
• Daisuke Ohata, rugby player
• Daisuke Usami, volleyball player
• Daisuke Murakami (snowboarder)

Football players

Football players (Soccer senshu):

• Daisuke Ichikawa
• Daisuke Matsui
• Daisuke Nasu
• Daisuke Oku
• Daisuke Sakata

Skaters

• Daisuke Murakami (figure skater), American figure skater
• Daisuke Takahashi, figure skater

Wrestlers

• Daisuke Harada, professional wrestler
• Daisuke Ikeda, professional wrestler
• Daisuke Tochiazuma, sumo wrestler

Voice actors

• Daisuke Gōri
• Daisuke Hirakawa
• Daisuke Kishio
• Daisuke Ishikawa
• Daisuke Namikawa
• Daisuke Ono
• Daisuke Sakaguchi

Other

• Daisuke Amaya, software developer^{[citation needed]}
• Daisuke Asakura, musician
• Daisuke Ban, actor
• Daisuke Enomoto, space tourist
• Daisuke Inoue, inventor
• Daisuke Ishiwatari, video game developer, Musician
• Daisuke Katō, actor
• Daisuke Matsuzaka, professional baseball player
• Daisuke Murakawa, professional Go player
• Daisuke Namba, minor historical figure
• Daisuke Tsuda (musician), vocalist
• Daisuke Tsuda (journalist), journalist
• Daisuke Watanabe, scenario writer
• Die (musician), guitarist

Fictional characters

• Daisuke Aoki, in the manga Kodomo no Jikan
• Daisuke Aramaki, from the manga Ghost in the Shell
• Daisuke Aurora, from Heat Guy J.
• Daisuke Hiyami, from the anime Rockman.exe NT Warrior
• Daisuke Jigen, from Lupin III manga
• Daisuke Motomiya, from Digimon
• Daisuke Niwa, of manga and anime series, D.N.Angel
• Daisuke Serizawa, eyepatch-wearing character in Godzilla (1954)
• Daisuke, from Not Love manga by Miyamoto Kano