List of Famous people named Toru

Toru Hosokawa is a Japanese former professional baseball catcher who is currently a manager for the Hinokuni Salamanders of Kyusyu Independence professional baseball league. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Seibu Lions/Saitama Seibu Lions, Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles and Chiba Lotte Marines.

Tōru Ōkawa is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator. While he went to a College of Art, Nihon University, he started his career as a stage actor, but after he moved to Mausu Promotion, his current agency, he came to focus on voice acting.

Tōru Minegishi was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1963 to 2008.

Toru Iwatani is a Japanese video game designer who spent much of his career working for Namco. He is best known as the creator of the arcade game Pac-Man (1980).

Tōru Emori is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and theater director. He has appeared in more than sixty films since 1965.

Tōru Takemitsu was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu was admired for the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre. He is known for combining elements of oriental and occidental philosophy and for fusing sound with silence and tradition with innovation.

Tōru Miyamoto is a member of the Japanese Communist Party serving in the House of Representatives as a representative of the Tokyo proportional representation block, a position to which he was elected to in 2014. Miyamoto is opposed to increasing the budget for the Ministry of Defense. He is also opposed to preemptively striking North Korea, thinking that the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe should put pressure on the United States to not attack North Korea, saying the number of lives that would be lost would be enormous.

Tōru Nakamura is a Japanese golfer.

Tohru Eguchi was a Japanese theoretical physicist.

Tōru Nimura is a Japanese former professional baseball infielder and pitcher. He played for the Chunichi Dragons and Chiba Lotte Marines.