Toru (given name)

• Toru Abe, Japanese actor
• Toru Arakawa, Japanese karateka
• Toru Arase, Japanese water polo player
• Tōru Doi, Japanese politician
• Tooru Fujisawa, Japanese manga artist
• Tōru Furusawa, Japanese voice actor
• Tōru Furuya, Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator
• Tōru Hashimoto, Governor of Osaka Prefecture
• Toru Itabashi, Japanese ice hockey player
• Toru Iwatani, Japanese video game designer
• Kakizoe Tōru, Japanese former sumo wrestler
• Toru Kobayashi, Japanese astronomer
• Tōru Nara, Japanese voice actor
• Tōru Nimura, Japanese baseball player
• Tōru Ōhira, Japanese voice actor and narrator
• Toru Okajima, Japanese ice hockey player
• Tōru Ōkawa, Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator
• Tōru Shinohara, Japanese manga artist
• Toru Takahashi, Japanese baseball player
• Toru Takahashi, Japanese computer network researcher and businessman
• Toru Takahashi, Japanese racing driver
• Toru Takasuka, Japanese software entrepreneur
• Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory
• Tōru Toida, Japanese politician
• Toru Toyoda, A perpetrator of the Tokyo subway sarin attack
• Toru Yamashita, Japanese guitarist
• Toru Yano, Japanese professional wrestler
• Toru Yonezawa, Japanese tennis player
• Toru Yoshida, Japanese footballer and manager

  Fictional characters

• Tooru, in A Channel
• Tohru, in Jackie Chan Adventures
• Tohru, a character in Kare First Love
• Tohru, the titular draconian servant in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
• Toru, also known as Todd Snap, in the Pokémon anime
• Toru, in Chris Bradford's Young Samurai
• Tohru Adachi, from the game Persona 4
• Tooru Amami, in The World God Only Knows
• Tooru, a villain featured in JoJolion
• Toru Egawa, in Business as Usual, a Finder Series fanfiction by Kadzuki_Fuchoin
• Tōru Hagakure, in My Hero Academia
• Tōru Hikawa in MegaMan NT Warrior
• Tohru Honda, in Fruits Basket
• Toru Kazama, in Crayon Shin-chan
• Toru Kouno, in Princess Princess
• Tohru Mutou, in Shiki
• Tōru Mutsuki, in Tokyo Ghoul: re
• Toru Narita, in Hot Gimmick
• Tooru Oikawa, in Haikyū!!
• Toru Okada, in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
• Toru Oshikiri, in the series of the same name by Junji Ito
• Tōru Rikiishi, in Ashita no Joe
• Toru Sato, in the game
• Tohru Suidohbashi, of Machine Robo Rescue.
• Toru Tokugawa, in The Grimnoire Chronicles, by Larry Correia
• Tōru Watanabe, in Norwegian Wood
• Tōru Yasunaga, in The Decay of the Angel