Hideki (ひでき, ヒデキ) is a common masculine Japanese given name.
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.
with the given name Hideki
Hideki Abe (安倍 栄基), Japanese video game composer
Hideki Arai (新井 英樹, born 1963), Japanese manga artist
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 Imai (今井 秀樹, born 1943), Japanese information theorist and cryptographer
Hideki Imamura (born January 29, 1972), Japanese musician, co-founder and vocalist of the band Siam Shade
Hideki Irabu (伊良部 秀輝, 1969-2011), a Japanese professional baseball player who played in both Japan and the United States
Hideki Isoda (磯田秀樹, born 1970), Japanese producer, director, and composer
Hideki Kadowaki (門脇英基, born 1976), Japanese mixed martial artist
Hideki Kamiya (神谷 英樹), Japanese video game designer
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 Makihara (牧原 秀樹, born 1971), Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party
Hideki Matsui (松井 秀喜, born 1974), retired Japanese professional baseball player who played for the New York Yankees
Hideki Matsutake (born 1951), Japanese electronic musician
Hideki Matsuoka (松岡秀樹, born 1968), Japanese Go player
Hideki Matsuyama (born 1992), Japanese Professional Golfer
Hideki Mutoh (武藤 英紀, born 1982), Japanese race car driver
Hideki Naganuma (長沼 英樹, born 1972), Japanese video game music composer
Hideki Niwa (丹羽 秀樹, born 1972), Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party
Hideki Noda (野田 英樹, born 1969), former Japanese Formula One driver
Hideki Noda (playwright) (野田 秀樹, born 1955), Japanese playwright, theatre director, and actor
Hideki Okajima (岡島 秀樹, born 1974), Japanese professional baseball player and pitcher who plays for the Boston Red Sox
Hideki Saijo (西城 秀樹, born 1955), Japanese singer and television celebrity best known for singing the Japanese version of the Village People's hit song Y.M.C.A.
Hideki Shirakawa (白川 英樹, born 1936), Japanese chemist and winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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), former Japanese professional boxer
Hideki Tojo (東條 英機, 1884-1948), Japanese prime minister during World War II
Hideki Yukawa (湯川 秀樹, 1907-1981), Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate
with the given name Hideki
Hideki Motosuwa (本須和秀樹), character in the anime/manga series Chobits
Hideki, 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
