Kenji (given name)
Kenji or Kenzi is a Japanese given name for boys.Possible writings
Kenji can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
- 賢二, "wise, second"
- 健二, "healthy, second"
- 健次, "healthy, next"
- 謙二, "modest, second"
- 研二, "research, second"
- 憲次, "constitution, next"
- 健司, "healthy, rule"
- 健治, "healthy, govern"
- 賢治, "wise, govern"
- 健児, "healthy, child"
- 堅志, "iron, purpose"
- 謙, modest
People with the name
- Kenji Anan, Japanese stage and film actor
- Kenji Daimanazuru, Japanese sumo wrestler
- Kenji Doihara, Japanese military general
- Kenji Eda, Japanese politician
- Kenji Fujimori, Peruvian politician, son of ex-president Alberto Fujimori
- Kenji Fujinaka, Japanese handball player
- Kenji Fukuda, Japanese footballer for Ehime F.C.
- Kenji Goto Japanese freelance video journalist, killed by ISIL
- Kenji Haneda, Japanese footballer
- Kenji Hatanaka, Japanese soldier
- Kenji Horikawa, Japanese anime producer
- Kenji Imai, multiple people
- Kenji Imaizumi, Japanese shogi player
- Kenji Inoue, Japanese sport wrestler
- Kenji Ishiguro, Japanese photographer
- Kenji Ishikawa, Japanese swimmer
- Kenji Ito, Japanese video game composer and musician
- Kenji Ito, Japanese footballer
- Kenji Jasper, American writer
- Kenji Johjima, Japanese Major League Baseball catcher
- Kenji Kageyama, Japanese footballer
- Kenji Kamiyama, Japanese anime director
- Kenji Kaneyasu, Japanese rower
- Kenji Kanzaki, Japanese shogi player
- Kenji Kasai, Japanese table tennis player
- Kenji Kawai, Japanese music composer
- Kenji Kawakami, inventor of the Japanese craze Chindōgu
- Kenji Kimihara, Japanese long-distance runner
- Kenji Kimura, Japanese volleyball player
- Kenji Kitawaki, Japanese footballer
- Kenji Kobayashi, Japanese shogi player
- Kenji Kosaka, Japanese politician
- J. Kenji López-Alt, American chef and food writer
- Kenji Matsuda, Japanese actor
- Kenji Miyamoto,
- Kenji Miyamoto,
- Kenji Miyazawa, Japanese poet and author of children's literature
- Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director
- Kenji Nagai, Japanese photographer
- Kenji Nakagami, Japanese author
- Kenji Nakamura, Japanese anime director
- Kenji Nakamura, Japanese sailor
- Kenji Nojima, Japanese voice actor
- Kenji Ogiwara, Japanese Nordic combined skier
- Kenji Ohtsuki, Japanese heavy metal rock musician
- Kenji Otonari, Japanese Baseball pitcher
- Kenji Sahara, Japanese actor
- Kenji Sato, Japanese baseball player
- Kenji Sato, Japanese basketball player and coach
- Kenji Sawada, Japanese actor and singer
- Kenji Shimaoka, Japanese volleyball player
- Kenji Soda, Japanese basketball player
- Kenji Suzuki, Japanese NHK announcer
- Kenji Tabata, Japanese sprinter
- Kenji Takahashi, Japanese footballer
- Kenji Takahashi, Japanese footballer
- Kenji Takahashi, Japanese sailor
- Patrick Kenji Takahashi, American biochemical engineer and science writer
- Kenji Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- Kenji Terada, Japanese script writer, anime director, novelist, and scenario writer
- Kenji Tokitsu, Japanese author and martial artist
- Kenji Tomiki, Japanese aikidoka and judoka
- Kenji Tominaga, Japanese actor
- Kenji Toriyabe, Japanese ice hockey player
- Kenji Treschuk, American soccer defender
- Kenji Tsukagoshi, Japanese aviator and explorer
- Kenji Tsumura, professional Magic: The Gathering player
- Kenji Tsuruta, Japanese manga artist and illustrator
- Kenji Ueda, Japanese musician better known as Kenzi
- Kenji Utsumi, Japanese actor
- Kenji Waki, Japanese shogi player
- Kenji Watanabe, Japanese breaststroke swimmer
- Kenji Williams, American filmmaker, electronic music producer, and violinist
- Kenji Wu, a Taiwanese singer and actor
- Kenji Yonekura, Japanese boxer
- Kenji Yoshida, Japanese anime producer and illustrator
- Michael Kenji Shinoda, American musician
Fictional characters
- Kenji in the real-time strategy game Battle Realms
- Kenji Delos Reyes from the Filipino novel "She's Dating the Gangster"
- Kenji, the main character in the 2003 Thai film Last Life in the Universe
- in the video game Need for Speed: Carbon
- Kenji in the Pokémon anime and manga series Electric Tale of Pikachu
- Kenji in GTA 3
- Kenji Tenzai from
- Kenji, Dragonfly Jones' student/rival in the TV show Martin
- Kenji in the video game Red Earth
- Kenji in Sports Champions
- Kenji Endō, the protagonist in the manga series 20th Century Boys
- Kenji Harima, the main character from the manga and anime series School Rumble
- Kenji Himura in the manga series Rurouni Kenshin
- Kenji Muto in the fantasy novel series Tales of the Otori
- Kenji Tomochika in the game Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 responsible for the "Magician" social link
- Kenji Tsukino, a minor character in Sailor Moon media
- Kenji Lee, Inspector Lee's brother in Rush Hour 3
- Kenji Setou, a legally blind character in Katawa Shoujo
- Karate Kenji, the main character from the manga and anime series Fight Fever
- Kenji, a Japanese Bullet Train in ¨Thomas and Friends¨
