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Hiro

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ402348
Source-derived summary

Hiro may refer to:

People

Hiro (given name), includes lists of people with the given name

Hiro (photographer) (1930–2021), Japanese-born American photographer

Hiro (singer) (born 1991), French singer

Hiroko Shimabukuro (born 1984), Japanese singer

Kazu Hiro (born 1969), American prosthetic makeup artist

Hiroshi "Hiro" Kawaguchi (composer) (born 1965), Japanese composer

Hiro-x (born 1980), Japanese singer and modern J-pop artist

Dilip Hiro (born 1932), Indian author and journalist

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional characters

Hiro, the main character of Darling in the Franxx

Hiro Amanokawa, the main character of Digimon Ghost Game

Hiro Nakamura, a main character from the TV series Heroes

Nikaidō Hiro (二階堂 ヒロ), a character in Magical Girl Witch Trials

Film and television

Hiros (TV episode) 2008 season 1 episode 5 of the NBC fantasy-sci-fi TV series Heroes

Hiro (film), a Canadian short film

Hiro (TV channel), an Italian channel

Music

"Hiro's Song", by Ben Folds

"Yuko and Hiro", a Blur song

"Letter from Hiro", a song by The Vapors, off New Clear Days

Places

Hiro, a town in Odisha, India.

Hiro Hachiman Shrine, a Shinto shrine located in Hirogawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Hiroshima, a city in Japan

Hiro Naval Arsenal at Kure, Hiroshima

Mont Hiro (Mount Hiro), a 438 m (1,437 ft) high mountain on Raivavae island in French Polynesia.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Hiro” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1930, 2021, 1991, 1984—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Hiro, Wikimedia and disambiguation can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q402348. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1930, 2021, 1991 and 1984.

Critical limits

A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Hiro”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Hiro primary sources, Hiro archive and Hiro research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  3. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Hiro” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.